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As what we see here, so it is really not a new capability. i mean, it is to be sure, one of the most destructive weapons ever created, but it doesnt really change the nuclear balance between the united states and russia. and we have little to gain by making a big deal about it or seeming like we are somehow intimidated. so i think the pentagon inaudible is perfectly reasonable. also, this missile that was fired from a site in russias north—west and reached a target nearly 6000 kilometres away ...

Of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten russia — threaten russia. this from a president who sent his troops into ukraine, who is attacking ukraine. vladimir putin still trying to create this alternative reality, turning everything upside down, making out that it is russia that is under threat from ukraine, from nato, from britain, from america, and making out that he is acting in self defence. steve rosenberg there. ian williams is deputy director of the missile defense project at cent...

When you are a combat leader and asking different folks for capabilities on the battlefield, theres a lot of people that will quickly deliver for you. and in this fight, in the donbas, what ukraine is facing next is a requirement to be light on their feet, light from a standpoint of how much logistics tail they have so they can move very quickly, and a requirement for a lot of intelligence. so the kinds of equipment that you are seeing being delivered now are providing those things, as well as t...

Unmanned aerial systems. field equipment and spare parts. when you heard the president today saying this is another $800 million package, in addition to an $800 million package still in the pipeline and more to come, what specifically will these weapons do to help ukraine in the fight? >> well, the first one, john, the howitzers, again, those are towed artillery pieces. set right on the ground. but those plus the 144 rounds, very different than the russian capability. this is a 155 millimeter ho...

This icbm. it was about sending the west a message. what should our response be to something like that? you know, if hes doing that, you know, should we be sending our own fighter jets there or something, you know, sort of calling that bluff? and i guess the question is, is there a downside of not responding with some form of rhetorical strength here? >> yeah. i think we should just ignore it and not take his bait. you know, this is what he wants, to get into a nuclear saber-rattling contest, an...

Lack of motivated soldiers, and thats how this could -- thats how the russians could fail again. >> and you have to think bringing in imported soldiers probably not good for morale. ambassador taylor i want to ask you something thats happening to the north and east of ukraine, and thats the possibility of sweden and finland joining nato. those conversations seem to have really heated up over the last couple of weeks. how does that change the strategic picture in the region? is that something we ...

That can have the potential to blow up even in some cases a tank. so it has an anti-armor capability. we dont know -- thats the switchblades. we dont know exactly how much of that is mirrored in these new drones. we asked the pentagon press secretary about that earlier today and he declined to give real specifics on its capabilities but did point out that this was something the ukrainians have specifically asked for. but not just these new drones. the howitzers is a huge deal. this announcement ...

Operational capability as well as the intelligence, the accurate intelligence about location and timing to target those shipments? >> i think its very unlikely. they would have to divert forces from the east and the south to be able to do that, and frankly there are so many shipments coming in now, that it would take the entire russian air force just to find them, let alone target them. what the u.s. is doing is right with the kinds of weapons its sending. what we need to do now is increase the ...

Soviet-era icbm they have obviously had for some time. doesnt mean that the u.s. isnt watching this carefully. theyve tracked putins statements. he is using a lot of inflammatory and escalatory language these days, but its a question of intentions versus capabilities, they do not believe that this missile has any intention of striking in an adversarial way at this point but it does demonstrate that the russians are modernizing that very capability. john? >> critical reporting and context, barbar...

Near a steel factory under assault. that steel factory sheltering the last ukrainian troops. and civilians. this is day three. so far no major territorial gains according to a new u.s. assessment. pentagon officials, though, believe russia is moving slowly, metho methodically, on purpose trying to learn from lessons made at the beginning of the war. in kharkiv, two people were found dead. they stayed back to care for animals amid heavy russian shelling there of the city and of the zoo. those wor...