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Im here, purely on humanitarian mission. you know, done the kicking in doors but when we talked about it you know the group that we have actually very, if you look at our combat experience, we have a lot of combat experience. we spent most of us over a decade in the middle east whether iraq, pakistan, afghanistan. what kind of an impact can we have? you know ive done picking up of a weapon but i feel at this point in my life i can make a bigger impact working on the humanitarian side. ive got th...

Fighter pilots this morning. they go by their call signs moon fish and juice. back with lviv, ukraine. its amazing how much theyve been able to accomplish with what theyve been trained. >> reporter: it is remarkable. they go by call signs with us to protect their identities and youll also notice theyre wearing their full gear because we didnt want people to see their faces. these are pilots that speak great english because they train in the united states alongside american pilots and in some cas...

Some are being told by the military, some remain in this military unit. they cant go to the war. >> reporter: one additional concern, the risks of deploying and arming thousands of foreign fighters around the country. >> they might be dangerous because such people are always dangerous, but we try to check them. we try to check everybody over. we try to check their past. >> reporter: one definite and urgent need for the ukrainian military are volunteers with combat experience. >> you enrolled aft...

Every time we bring a recruit to the military, we expect them to conform to military culture, culture formed over two centuries of combat experience. we never expect our culture has to change to ark comidate the individual. that is military service. >> todd: i understand that is your main point, cohesiveness argument. i will push back slightly. do you feel the military is under prepared because of focus on what i will call a distraction? >> i continuing is distraction, if i send two million peop...

>> and what were hearing now from lviv is possibly two missile strikes and five people injured. you know better than i, the fog of war from your combat experience, but this is at least the initial reporting. were also seeing -- reporting from tasks, the official mouthpiece, of course, for the kremlin, saying that bidens -- president bidens new comments, clearly that was calling vladimir putin a butcher today further narrows possibilities for mending relations. thats from tass. colonel vindman, j...

Newsroom with the gutwrenching videos and photos from the war zone. >> three american volunteer fighters going to help the people of ukraine fight against russia are injured but will be okay after driving over a landmine. listen to how it happened. >> were going to a village in setting up across from the russians and we rolled over a landmine in the vehicle went up in the air we came down and we hopped out we picked up security code up and helped us out and got us back to here. >> the ukrainian ...

I heard about two examples, one from the kherson region, second from sumy region, theyve just stolen then. probably today even we -- i know that russian army, they just leave part of the air forces defense equipment and ukrainians already took it. ukrainians, we can take -- today in effect any ukrainian is able to get weapon. it belongs to the first level reserves and has combat experience, then he probably knows which military unit he should arrive to receive weapons. if a person doesnt have co...

That were doing everything we can to stand with ukraine and ensure that they are able to push back against russian aggression again, she says. very clear but doesnt answer the question, jason . and my question would be exactly that . why cant the administration just come out and at one point say, you know what , we think these guys might win? >> they dont know and we can go back to kabul, the recent collapse there with the intelligence agencies got it wrong there of the, the elite pundits in dc ...

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