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Enemy ability to threaten our operation. the russians did not do that. many people think they thought they would sweep all the way to kyiv early on and not need to do that. obviously that did not happen and they are paying the price. ukrainians are not able to get on the skies on a regular spaces and several transport aircraft, the russians have not equipped themselves well but there is a caveat. when we think about of this war, it is a triad of organized train and equip. the russian haves have ...

When you see these satellite images, what do you think? >> well, i would defer to general hertling. he is in a much better position at least speculate or guess in terms of what this column is doing. as i sit back and watch this, i wish that the ukrainians had a greater air force capability. because all of those armored vehicles and trucks and tanks would be sitting ducks for a capable air force to go down and target them and take them out. what i hope will happen is that the ukrainians can organ...

Able to achieve in kyiv and its surroundings in terms of successes against russian forces has also been different from what happened on the ground in syria. the support that allies like the u.s. and the uk have given to ukraine is different than what the syrian rebels were given. the ukrainians have received significant anti-aircraft capability. so he is coming into a very different theater of war. but he is coming in with a reputation for brutality, a reputation for intentionally targeting civi...

That would be the area they could control, the russians could control, in order to move things this way and to control not only the eastern part of ukraine but potentially move it into other areas. and the other risk the ukrainians have is their armies could be encircled if theyre not careful. so, this is a very tenuous area for them. this is why we right now have some failures with the russians. but the russians are also learning whats going on here. theyre absorbing the lessons of the battlefi...

Russian convoy, which is 3.5 kilometers long, was headed to kyiv but it was stopped by artillery fire from the ukrainian side and we took european leaders there and it was very symbolic because we could show them that if we had enough weapons, enough ammunition, we would have stopped the aggressor a long time ago and we would have brought them out of our country. it is absolutely impossible to comprehend this brutality. it is absolutely impossible to understand the brutality of targeting ordinar...

So the fight has changed. theres a new commander if charge. this fight is going to go on. but the overall total of putin, hes lost that. hes not going to get all of ukraine. he wants to take the eastern part, and zelenskyy should force him back on that, and i think hes got the capacity and the capability as long as we give him the equipment. arthel: yeah, but thats -- >> i have no idea, arthel, whats taking so long. i dont know why. arthel: yeah, thats the frustration here. we keep talking about...

Belarus. so we saw an earlier version of this convoy. were now seeing another convoy. we saw a convoy before. the ukrainians defeated the other convoy. they can defeat this convoy if they get the weapons. >> right. because people, again, as i wondered before, why didnt you strike the convoys, these tanks? do you think its because they dont have what they need to execute that? >> they are -- they did strike the other convoy. >> they did. >> and they need to do the same thing with this and they ar...

One of the key things ukrainians need and they know this is an integrated air defense capability that either eliminates or really degrades the russians capability to use that third dimension where they can put an attack helicopter and put fighters. with an integrated air defense system which gives them long-range capabilities, very pronounced radar capabilities, detection capabilities and then the stingers, the shoulder fire weapons systems that are more tactical, it gives ukrainians a more inte...

He has got soldiers dying right, left, and center. his economy is crippled. how does he have time, and we dont? >> i disagree with the comment. i will go back to economics. he is bleeding out. and you know, general sherman of our own nation in the civil war said, war is hell. stephanie, you are the economist, war is also expensive. he is spending, spending, spending. his capital stocks are being destroyed. his man power is being deleted. 15,000 russians killed. that is twice as many as the u.s. ...

These long-range strikes need to become standard for the ukrainians. they need to put pressure on the russians in what the russians think is a sanctuary. in russia they do what they want, they can assemble their forces, refit, refuel with a certain degree of impunity, but if they can be struck as a matter of routine and unpredictably by the ukrainians. simultaneously the ukrainians can go out into the black sea with good planning, the right capabilities, they can go after the russian naval capab...