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In the days and weeks ahead. trey, good to see you back in kyiv, my friend. thank you for the report. gillian. >> gillian: lets bring in general jack keane, great to see you as trey just laid out and your team at the institute of the study of war put forth this week, its looking, you say, like it will take about a week at most for the russians to capture mariupol. talk to me what that means strategically, is that a game changer on the ground? >> well, it certainly is significant because it estab...

>> there was a conversation with the ukrainians leading up to the new package as there is for every other package. we talk to them about what their needs are, what they want, what we can provide them. and helicopters were certainly as a part of that discussion, we gave them five of these mi-17s in january. we had these other 11, and there was an active discussion about it. there was some back and forth about whether the ukrainians really wanted them at this moment or ready to receive them and ev...

Some coastal defense missile capabilities. we in the latest package are offering them some coastal defense -- unmanned surface capability. and, three, the issue of mines. we know that mines have been a factor, particularly south of od odesa. some of those mines could be free floating. therefore not moored to a specific area and could affect a navys ability to freely maneuver in that maritime space. so while they certainly -- from just a purely naval perspective, the russians have superiority in ...

From. call it what you will, but they had land—based cruises missiles capable of bringing down this ship. we have seen russia just the flying logic and some of the military things, so, allowing this from your flagship to be by itself —— premier flagship. they had the capability. do i care people believe they did it? a little bit.— it? a little bit. thank you so much for “oininu it? a little bit. thank you so much forjoining us— it? a little bit. thank you so much forjoining us with _...

We dont know a whole lot about any that may have been provided. they were supposed to provide five of these. these were earmarked to go to the army more than one year ago. thats not going to happen now because the taliban is in charge. there was 11 of them. its unclear at this point where those helicopters are, and what state they are in. the military is trained on this capability. unlike the artillery the ukrainian military has to be trained on those. the helicopters are not the case. they are ...

Do. theyre losing on this is the losing momentum, and that a billion and billion and billion dollar loss to them, let alone the loss in political will and the people. i dont know if you remember they sunk a submarine, and it was a big deal to putin. and his inner circles. this will affect them big time and what theyre trying to do now that theyre losing and trying to take eastern ukraine, but this in combination with the momentum that the ukrainians have with the us announcement of different wea...

Enormous concerns every step along the way of russia and escalation which is, to your previous point about the nuclear saberrattling that you hear from russians, you know, thats one of the major deterrents that they have left for the united states and nato is threatening nuclear escalation. thats why you hear it. they dont have a lot of efforts to defer the united states. >> i like the testing the ice metaphor. were sending howitzers, helicopters, anti-armor weapons into ukraine. have they irrev...

Middle of a war? >> its very difficult to do. i think we are training as much as we can on ukrainian soil and elsewhere. but there may be drones that we can train them rather quickly on that would be suicide drones and so forth. so i think that were capable of giving them a level of capability they dont have now that they could be trained rather quickly, not immediately, but at least it would increase their morale. theyre getting more, they know that they can now win this battle. they proved the...

To announce new military assistance to ukraine. were told expect to be close to $00 million. how does that help the short-term fight for ukraine? you talk about two or three weeks that are critical. >> im very proud of what the united states and others have done, delivered a lot of capability. theres no doubt about that. its growing with -- with every day its increasing. in the near term what we need to hear is a commitment that this is about winning and that were going to do everything possible...

Attack capable in ukraine. theyre not saying they would attack them in poland or another country or another nato country. they do point out, they draw a lot of attention to it but point out the fact that russia has not been good with targeting convoys on the move. like buildings, oil refineries but to get to try to target a column of tanks on the move not particularly easy for russia. partly because ukraine still has some air defense capability. russias threat is a serious threat but its not som...