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They have been getting a steady supply of weapons being sent in from the west, from nato countries, but when president biden spoke yesterday in poland and talked about a sacred obligation to nato countries — well, how does that feel for people here in ukraine? because theyre on the other side of that line. there is no sacred obligation to the ukrainians. they are here basically fighting on their own, they rely almost entirely on the west to keep on supplying them with weapons, and we heard fro...

Defense needs and were delivering multiple capabilities to try and address those requirements. >> he was really specific saying 1% of natos capability. is that tenable? >> well, id have to do the math on whats already been provided. as i stated, most nato allies are providing legal assistance, including nato allies that have had longstanding policies not to do so. weve seen a major change in europe with many allies coming forward. wed have to go forward and count up whats been provided to date, ...

>> joining us now, michael mcfaul, who served as the u. s. ambassador to russia from 2012 to 2014. he is an msnbc international affairs analyst. ambassador mcfaul, ukraine didnt comment on that attack in russia. but how significant of a development would that be, if ukraine shows it can reach russian soil? >> well, whenever i hear a senior government official saying, i can neither confirm nor deny, it sounds like theyre actually confirming. otherwise, they would have denied it. so it sounds like...

Abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory. we have seen russian soldiers short of weapons and morale, refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft. and even though we believe putins advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what is going on and the extent of these misjudgements must be crystal clear to the regime. >> what is interesting is now the intelligence authorities of the uk and the u.s. are saying what many...

To a different map here and show our viewers and talk to you about where the ukrainians are pushing back. theyre pushing back to the northwest out from kyiv. so the question for you is what do you make of the ukrainians actually being able to it appears to be taking back this territory? >> its really kind of neat to see that the ukrainians have started what seems to be a counteroffensive, but, you know, in combat momentum ebbs and flows and right now at least on the tactical level and even in po...

In the east, tries to win military battles in the donbas -- then the whole nature of the conflict changes. and instead of the insurgency conflict that we were predicting and that we were preparing to on the ukrainians to fight, really now changes to a state on state kinetic war in which the ukrainians will -- like long-range fires, air power, drones, missiles, things they can launch across the border to hit the russians and inflict pain on them there. not nearly urban combat, house to house, ins...

That fell. ukrainians dont want that capability. and in the east we have new video, including disturbing images which reely confirm what weve heard, which is intense fighting taking place. we heard this is a sight of a a russian counter attack. esepgsally eexploring the after it is math. . now, the possibility is now completely under their control. the ukrainian maleitary says this is not yet alive.

Since 1999. >> and in those tests, they have been essentially scripted for success. but even so, the tests have only succeeded around half the time. >> reporter: but what about all those successful intercepts in the middle east? what about the iron dome? >> icbms are a qualitatively different threat than many of the different missiles we have read about in news, traveling significantly higher and having potential penetration aids and counter measures. >> reporter: cnn reached out to the u.s. mis...

Failed in that. now hes moving his troops outside of ukraine, bringing them back so he can reapply them elsewhere in ukraine. now theyre taking about reprioritizing on the donbas. mr. putin has already failed along the lineses and a lot of his objectives. as for our strategy, we dont have a mission in ukraine but we have two major goals here. one is to make sure that ukraine can continue to defend itself and they are. thats not by accident, martha. its not just the stuff were sending over there,...

We also see 2 million people show up at our southwestern border during this last year and weve seen afghan refugees coming out of that ill-fated, you planned shutdown of our presence in afghanistan. im not sure who the president got that number. im interested in learning more. also making sure that we can do this in an orderly and appropriate way. >> neil: he is committed more money for ukraine. we can assume part of one part of that was this system that enabled the ukrainians to take down and b...