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Weeks and months. it would have been great if we started training the ukrainian forces to operate some of this advanced capability about four or five weeks ago, but now its not too late. if this is going to play out over weeks and months we could get the ukrainians ready to use these pieces of equipment. frankly, the u.s. needs to send a signal that the gates are open for equipment. if ukraine is asking for it and the eastern europeans have it it should be on offer. that will enable the ukrainia...

It is -- its interesting, but in a way, its not unprecedented in this war. there have been at least two attacks by my count in which the russians -- in which the ukrainians struck targets in russia. one of them is this milarova airfield to the east of ukraine, and another one was this -- another airfield. they fired rockets at those. this would be the first time that theyve actually not used kind of long-range fires. theyve potentially employed helicopters, still operating as well as planes, ukr...

Attrition, how long do you expect this to last? >> its hard to know. urban warfare lasts a very long time. it can last months and months, its also a question of capability, they have obviously struggled with logistics, it remains to be seen how long they can sustain that type of fighting, but i recently heard there might be a push to make some sort of a accomplishment or a declaration by may in time for the victory parade, the world war ii victory parade for that, you know, value signaling, give...

Changing strategies here, how difficult is it for them to actually do that given the massive breakdowns in communication weve seen and russians using open air radios with openly being taunted by ukrainians on those radios? how difficult is it for a size of this force of this size to to change what its doing? well well, its a lot easier to defend than attack when you defend youre consolidating your logistics lines are shorter. its easier to communicate. you get things like for example, you run wi...

>> reporter: the current system has only been tested 19 times since 1999. >> they have been scripted for success but even so the tests have only succeeded around half the time. >> reporter: 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 missiles that we have read about in the news and traveling significantly higher and having potential penetration aids and countermeasures. >> reporter: cnn re...

Business, in sports, if youre always playing defense the whole time youre going to lose. so the ukrainians have to go on the offense at some point in time rather than defending their cities, now having to do it with long-range missiles coming at them. weve got to provide them with the kind of capability they can start going on the offense against the russians. and i would include anti-ship missile capability. make the russians pay as much of a penalty as possible, one, on the military side and t...

Im not going to speak about intelligence. we remain concerned about the north koreans, their attempt to continue to improve their nuclear capability as well as their ballistic missile capability. its provocative. it poses a threat to security on the peninsula and to the region, our allies and partners. if you ask me are we concerned about it. absolutely we are. >> you said concerns about their efforts to improve their nuclear capabilities. >> every time you test, you learn. every time you test, ...

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Using them to much more deadly effect. >> my personal guess is that probably about 20 to 30% of the kills that the ukrainians are registering against russian armor and against, you know, other russian entities is probably due to their very successful employment of these drones. >> reporter: according to analysts, kamikaze drones fit perfectly with the small, fast-moving squads favored by the ukrainians. the weapons are hard to detect, and can penetrate positions miles away. several systems of va...

The last read somewhere attack where we recovered a lot of the ransom money paid and possibly crippled some of their operations, orwe crippled some of their operations, or we actually go further and demonstrate to the russian government that we have the capability to attack their critical infrastructure if we decide to do so, i am not sure. my decide to do so, i am not sure. my guess is we would respond incrementally, working away up to more serious responses. so maybe the next one would be seiz...