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Days and weeks in the eastern part of the country. >> that new capability were talking about is heavy artillery as well as helicopters. the soviet-era helicopters. does this demonstrate the futility of holding out on supplying those heavy weapons in the first place? its taken weeks, if not months, to get to this point. >> i think that youre right there. unfortunately its taken, as you say, this is now the eighth week of the war, and its taken a long time before governments around the world have ...

NATO needs to go beyond only increasing military capability and capacity and should take political and diplomatic initiatives.

Have perhaps lost this capability. >> a ship of that size, as well. as you say, a crew of 500. a vessel that is considered to be the flagship of the fleet that has to have a psychological impact as well as the practical impact. again, if indeed these reports are borne out. we dont want to get to four head of the news as the things are not confirmed. but let me switch gears and ask you about what happened today with the january six investigation? obviously these interviews today with the white ho...

Its forces. the other ships that it has within the black sea. and we did see a few weeks ago, and it was verified that russian ship, an amphibious ship was struck by the ukrainian, and damaged, and so these things, you know, appear to continue to disable and remove some of russias ability to continue this onslaught, against, ukraine, and specifically there have been concerns about how they could use their forces that have been amassed in the black sea to strike against port cities such as odesa ...

Command. thank you for being with us again this morning. what is your assessment of what you have seen and heard around the destruction, however it happened, of this ship? >> yeah, thanks for having me on the show. if this is confirmed, this is another significant defeat for the russians and another victory for the ukrainians. this neptune missile is a missile that was developed in ukraine in 2021. it is a highly capable missile. but on the other hand, this ship, as you said, is the flagship of ...

I can tell you, at some point, it only takes a matter of less than a week from the time the president authorizes a drawdown package for us to get at least the first shipment or so into ukraine. >> look, that time frame of a week has been what has been going on so far with the so-called lighter weapons, ammunition, drones that the u.s. has already been sending. it will now be a major test of transport capability to get these heavier weapons to the border and get the ukrainians able to be able to ...

Ground. and taking them away from their earlier training, top down training and allowing them not only to become familiar with western weaponry, but also with becoming more flexible in terms of decision-making on the ground, more nimble in having that authority. talk about the roles that all of that training has played to help the ukrainians become as successful as theyre showing they are right now. >> well, the training has been really important. the focus of training, of course, is really to t...

Sharing and the united states government going to american defense contractors and saying, step up your production. that has become a wartime effort here in the united states to support ukraine. >> absolutely. im glad to see the administration, theyre pushing more offensive capability to the ukrainians now. this package of artillery which will be much needed, the package that you see in there also has armored personnel carriers. tanks are supposed to be coming in from czech as well as germany. a...

Inland. they have used the maritime environment to assault the mainland in terms of an amphibious assault. and they have used the maritime environment to intimidate and in some cases to try to, we think, in some cases try to pin down ukrainian ground forces near odesa. so they still have quite a bit of naval capability available to them. >> just a quick follow-up. when the embassy in kyiv was moved to lviv and then into poland, the marines moved out as well. >> correct. >> are they still with th...

Donbas and taking some portion of the eastern flank of ukraine and then by may 9th calling it a victory of some kind and being done for the moment? or do you think that there is still the effort to get kyiv and take the whole country? >> hes obviously had to scale down his ambitions, not for a lack of ambition but for a lack of capability to realize them. this seems to be his plan for this phase. its not obvious to me or anyone else that hes necessarily going to succeed. if he were to succeed, t...