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Same as it was at the beginning. so, i think that zelenskyy certainly has not let up, neil, on trying to get additional help from the international community. he was just talking to luxembourgs parliament a couple of days ago and i think hes going to continue that messaging. and its critically important here as were seeing the russians having some success in the south, the first setback that the ukrainians have had in the second phase of this operation, though the ukrainians still have a signifi...

And turkey is an n.a.t.o. member and the opposition or president erdogans opposition to sweden joining n.a.t.o. and more of this, frank, what do you make of it? >> well, i think whats going to happen, as were going forward here, i do believe the united states is going to continue to support and be aggressive about it. i think it was shameful that it took us a couple of months to agree to provide them multiple rocket launchers and we need to provide more of them. but i think whats in front of us ...

A huge fight in technology for russia and really going out. they need the drones without the ability to conduct strikes with inside russia. if they do, it will be the most powerful drone possible. using several of the smaller, short range again special forces and so they have -- but i think really the big question with this potential sale of these four is whether the u.s. arms these drones to fire missiles because it wants a surveillance asset. it is another thing to provide armed capability to ...

Geopolitical complications of that. >> thats right. well, i mean, first of all no guarantees at this point. the iranians already have enough enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons. theyre close to this breakout nuclear capability no one wanted them to do be. the biden administration is trying to get back into the deal. the saudis read those negotiations and are prepared to deal with it. theres the issue of the massive humans right abuses in yemen. the saudis announcing a temporary ceasefire. c...

These echelons and slow and possibly reversed the russian assault. mark, does that mean you are seeing a faster and to this conflict, a way out? no, no, not at all, this is not going to be a strategic turning point. this is simply a technical capability that was given to the ukrainians that can go a little bit deeper into the russian lines, but this is no magic weapon, no magic wand, and in fact that as part of the criticism that we hear over here in the united states — that we are giving the ...

Importantly, how do you see these weapons helping ukrainian soldiers for months into this war? >> thank you for having me. good evening to everyone. first of all, we are thrilled. these weapons have been much awaited by our brave defenders. and this new package, that president biden announced today, not only are we receiving more artillery, or other, important equipment, that we havent received already, for a while, but also, we are getting this new capability, that we really need for this diffi...

For making time tonight. i really appreciate your time. id like to begin by getting your reaction to, president bidens announcement that the united states will be sending days advanced rocket systems to ukraine in the coming days. how has your government received the news, and, more importantly, how do you see these weapons helping ukrainian soldiers for months into this war? >> thank you for having me. good evening to everyone. first of all, we are thrilled. these weapons have been much awaited...

This new package president biden announced today, not only are we receiving more artillery, more important equipment that we havent seen, and we have seen in a while, and new capability that we need for this difficult battle in the east and south that we have now. when on the one hand, you know, on the one side, we see russia invaders, with all of the fire power destroying literally, making our cities and villages rubble. and on the other hand, on the other side, not only our defenders there, it...

Mobility artillery rocket system and youre long with that sending the capability to shoot rockets basically 49 miles, not 200 which the ukrainians requested. so why did you make that decision? >> so at every point this have conflict starting at the very beginning when we were focused very much on anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems we have tried to get the ukrainians exactly what we think they needed to be able to fend off this russian assault on their country. that worked in the early days, the...

Seeing reports that morale is bad amongst troops on the front line because they have taken so many losses in the last number of days, weeks, leading up to now but i would stress these are fairly limited and to some extent given the size of the russian army and its capability you would expect them to at least, given all the problems we have seen with them, to at least to be able to take some of these towns are so close to their border, close to where their troops already are, and still in this sm...