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Thats what weve seen in the last two packages. a lot of artillery pieces, a lot of ammunition, a lot of intelligence-gathering capability with the drones and other intelligence asset and what youre talking about in this next phase is a counterartillery fight and a maneuver fight. i think what probably secretary austin and blinken talked about today is whats going to happen next, the long-term fight, and ukraine has been demanding and president zelenskyy has been demanding, excuse me, allots of e...

For the first time, the senior u.s. official, defense secretary lloyd austin, said that he wanted to diminish russias military power going forward, not just now, but in the future so russia could not do this again. >> we want to see russia weakened to a degree that it cant do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. so it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of -- a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quick...

Austin, said the u.s. wants to diminish russias military power going forward so russia could not just do this again. >> we want to see russia weakened to a degree it cant do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. breaking overnight, missile strikes in the lviv area. officials say russian forces str...

Youve heard them express the need for tanks. and we are doing everything that we can to give them the types of support, the types of artillery, ammunition that could be effective in this stage of a fight. so, we will get a chance. we have done a lot. as you have seen, what we have done here in the recent past with 800 million opposition provided by the president provide just to give -- hundreds of thousands of rounds of artillery. and we are also engaging our colleagues in other countries for th...

Here is the choreography we have laid out. its a chance for zelenskyy to point out the real moral he has not made public so they can have this back and forth. another controversial topic is how far should ukraine go into ukraine -- into russia to attack its war-fighting capability? legally ukraine is within its right to attack russia supply lines, et cetera, things you see the russians attacking. russia is likely attacking trains and train stations because its trying to stop the flow of weapons ...

Like. as you also point out, the statement about the opening of the embassy in lviv. that in and of itself has security discussions around it, especially as you see russia striking railway stations in central and eastern ukraine. an embassy presence in lviv will require its own security even as ukraine has to provide some of that security. but it also comes with additional considerations because it remains an active war zone. do you need search and rescue capability? do you need a rapid response...

Phase where its going to be more of large-scale operations, counterartillery fights, the kinds of things needed in large conventional conflicts. i believe, as i always have, that ukraine has the capability of doing this. and what weve seen on the battlefield with russia is they do not, for a variety of reasons. poorly trained soldiers, poor leadership, bad logistics support, the inability to practice things they would have used in combat. all of those things lend to the tilting of the advantage ...

Going to go on and on and on. theres no way putin is going to back down or compromise in any way. and theres though way that zelenskyy or the ukrainian people are going to allow and concede territory of their country. and so in a situation like that, one side has to win or the other, and it may go on for a very long time. we have to prepare ourselves for that, and we should do whatever we can to make sure that the russians dont have the financial capability to carry on for a very long time at th...

Capability nato in europe just as is providing security for its current members to do so for its new members as they come in. >> former u.s. ambassador to nato, evo dalter, thank you so much for coming on this morning. and next on "morning joe," breaking news, twitter set to accept elon musks offer. well talk to andrew ross sorkin about that. and speaking of big tech, behind a new european law that could reshape the online world. were back -- >> this is a massive law that has passed in the e.u. ...

United states but also to the american people. during their press conference following the visit, the secretarys outlining the support. take a listen. >> russia has sought as its principle aim to totally subjugate ukraine, to take away its sovereignty and independence, and that has failed. >> it already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. >> now, secretary austin is ne...