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Keep hearing residents say over and over again, close the sky -- a reference to no-fly zone. poland offered to do that by sending them air force jets to ukraine, the pentagon close the door and said its not happened. >> adding aircraft of ukrainian inventory is not likely to chain the effectiveness of the ukrainian air force relative to russian capabilities. >> in a move that surprised the pentagon, poland announced it would send the mig 29s to a airbase in germany. it was viewed as a high risk ...

So there might be some commitment to neutrality understood in terms —— in the call to turkey yesterday. there are stipulations around the russian language which it is easy for ukraine to concede. you get into the trickier stuff, ukraine to concede. you get into the trickierstuff, russian ukraine to concede. you get into the trickier stuff, russian demands for disarmament, ok, is that disarmament of any means to threaten russia which ukraine doesnt have to begin with or is that disarmament th...

Top aides are declining to say whether a chemical weapons attack changes that position. >> are you saying if russia does conduct a chemical weapons attack in ukraine, there will not be a military response from the united states? >> im not going to get into hypotheticals. what were saying right now is they have the capacity and the capabilities. >> reporter: lawmakers from both parties pressing top officials after the pentagon rejected the idea of sending more aircraft to ukraine, despite pleas f...

Why we are not handing over those jets. i know its the pentagons position that they dont believe ukraine needs them but ukrainians keep asking for them? >> thats right. the pentagon is looking at this purely from a military perspective. what that means is they look at risks versus reward here. right now ukraine has somewhere in the area of 65 fix the wings jet ready to go and are operable, and they fly about five of those on a daily basis, and they have dozens sitting and not flying and the reas...

Willing to give up the jets they have. theyre right there. why dont they do it? do we have leverage to get poland to hand them over with a promise to replace them from the united states or is there some other way for us to simply do what it seems like the majority of the people in congress or at least who are talking to the mp here are telling them they want to do. how do we get it done? >> we can do it, joy. there is a meme or tiktok video talking about logistics, thats standing between women a...

Should give them the equipment they need to fight. we cant meter insistms based on how much cities are getting devastated. we need to give them the full suite of capabilities. these s 300 systems, they could implement immediately. its not that hard to get them there. they can be move bide air and ground convoy across the border. and those could be deployed immediately because thats in the capability of the ukrainian armed forces. they operate different variations of s 300s. they have been operat...

Dying. >> nic robertson, such good information to get from you this morning. thank you, sir. lets go to cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz, shes with the president in wilmington, delaware. president biden, as we know, is speaking with the national security team this morning. what do we know about the conversations? >> reporter: well, christi, president biden will wake up here at home in wilmington, delaware, as the white house remains concerned about the state of ukraine as russias mi...

Resilience in the face of this russian onslaught. >> i mean, and john heilemann, you and i had the conversation with former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, about the skill and acumen and readiness of this ukrainian military. it seems that that continues to be this x factor in both the unbelievable number of russian deaths, 7,000 troops dead, as a conservative figure, as reported by "the new york times." as well as the constant flow of not just resupplying these weapons but enhancing and impr...

Widening their assault on towns and cities across ukraine. and, once again, attempting to close in on the capital city of kyiv. joining me now to talk about this is retired u.s. army colonel who served as an aide during the iraq war and now serves as the chair of military history at ohio state university. colonel, what do you make of this new russian offensive? >> well, the russians failed in their blitzkrieg-style assault to get to kyiv and kharkiv quickly, and they misjudged the ukrainian resi...

So you have people putting up all kinds of fights, whether its peaceful, whether theyre taking up arms, but of course, john, we should note that so many ukrainians are also fleeing their homes. according to the u.n. today, more than 2 million people, 2 million ukrainians have now left the country. john? >> alex marquardt in kyiv for us. alex, thank you. while the biden administration has pushed back against establishing a no fly zone over ukraine to avoid any direct conflict with russia, this ...