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Them with these tools? i mean, can you tell us why these things arent there already or if its a more involve process? >> sure, so, theres a couple things. theres a bureaucratic reason, and we tend to be paternalistic with regard to what our partners can employ. the ukrainians are screaming for lots of different things, and i failed to mention the coastal defense cruise missiles that they need also for the landing ships off odesa, but theyve been screaming for them and our response is, no, we don...

Joining me now is retired brigadier general. general, i want to pick up on what katie bo was talking about there. the notion of bringing syrian fighters in. if they did that, if they did, we dont know how many would be coming in, they could be effective in urban combat around kyiv. explain. >> first of all, let me explain, the 5rarmy coming in from russi is conscripts. those that fought in grozny are gone from years and years ago. these syrian fighters have been fighting since 2015 in places suc...

Be seen as an escalatory step so putin will not do it. do you think they are right? >> i do. its because of the threat analysis of whats going on in ukraine right now. those aircraft are not as beneficial as ukrainian air defense capability, ground air defense because russia has some pretty good air defense systems and they have what military guys call bubbles over different parts of ukraine. the ukrainian air force is flying. they are doing a relatively good job but the transfer of migs, not a ...

Secretary austin saying the biden administration is against be a part of a no-fly zone saying it would draw the united states into a direct conflict with ukraine. they were asked of the idea of slovak i cant providing s-300s to ukraine. we heard zelenskyy asking for more missiles. the slovakian defense minister said theyre open to the idea of providing these to ukraine, but its all that they have for their own defenses and he talked about the potential for some sort of a back fill or some other ...

Richard, there was more shelling overnight. >> reporter: there was more shelling over mite and the shelling is now right in the center of kyiv. i would say it is not an intense bombardment. not that the city is under constant fire. russia still has the capability, presumably, to do more than it is right mow. what weve seen primarily in the nighttime hours and during the day as well, is russia bombs the out skirts of the city and then odd missile strike or rocket strike or artillery strike will c...

Materialised —— naval and various assault. a lot of it is informed speculation that they are having some difficulties conducting and amphibious landing, which is not an easy thing to do, especially if it is contested and the ukrainian still have a potent artillery and counter attack capability. that could be a very, very difficult landing for the russians. there has also been some interesting commentary and that the naval infantry being reluctant to conduct this amphibious assault against th...

That kind of cease fair when theyre blowing up humanitarian lines and attacking them. well check back in a little bit, ben hall. retired four-star general jack keane joins me now. senior strategic analyst and chairman of the study for the institute of the study of war. good to have you with us. the biggest news here today is this news from poland that they have agreed to send some or their may 29 fighter jets through natos base in germany to ultimately the ukraine. >> yeah, certainly this is som...

Rights office. and a further 861 injured, though the u.n. believes the true figure is likely to be, quote, considerably higher. jim sciutto, cnn, lviv. >> and joining me now once again, malcolm davis. he is a senior analyst in defense strategy and capability at the australian strategic policy institute. its always good to get you on, sir. the pounding of civilian areas continues. but as were just discussing there in jims story and earlier, it would appear the actual advance of russian troops in ...

Putin that may actually make that more complicated and i dont want anyone else done because we didnt make the negotiations perspective as possible. you talk about negotiations and i wonder if any of this matters. i mean, if putin says, okay, ill stop the war tomorrow, but i want i want ukraine to give up crimea and the donbass regions and then declare neutrality and then i want some of the some of the sanctions lifted by the us . i mean, theres a real chance that the us might bite on part of tha...

So my answer on where is the no fly zone, we can give the ukrainians the means to create that no-fly zone. weve done a lot of that. that is wet -- providing potentially polish make 29s. these are very capable aircrafts that can be transferred to the ukrainian navy and back field by the u.s. military, and we have the capability to give the ukrainians the opportunity to conduct this. we want to avoid the situation which would be a street no-fly zone between you s and russian aircraft going nose to...