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Supports everything involved in our combat operation. to take a u.s. weapon system, send it over to ukraine, even if we train them like we do with some of our artillery pieces in poland, it is not the same. there is not a logistical trail of parts, supplies, maintenance, ammunition, that are all tracking and supporting the units in the same way that we do with the u.s. military. this is ultimately what makes the u.s. military superior. similarly, a lot of the systems are more complicated. withou...

The whole combat operation there. but if you look at the treatment of people accused of being mercenaries who are also two brits and another foreigner who are currently being held inside the donbas, inside the russian held areas of the donbas, theyre being accused of capital crimes potentially, being accused of murder because theyre so called mercenaries, they were paid up members of the ukrainian armed forces, and in one cases, the brits, the ukrainian british national, so all of this, though, ...

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Gradually reduced our presence from more than 100,000 in the combat operation to now ending the mission. but we are not ending our support for the afghans. we will continue to provide funding for the afghan security forces, which we have trained and built from almost nothing to now around 300,000 professional security forces. second, we will work on how we can provide out—of—country training for afghan forces. and, thirdly, we are looking into how we now can maintain critical infrastructure ...

Warfare is already happening. can you talk about that? and what a counteroffensive look like from the ukrainian side. >> so in u.s. terms, this would be the shaping operations. the next stage is a major combat operation. in the shaping operation, theyre looking to degrade the command and control of the ukrainian armed forces, to frankly be as disruptive as possible with regards to emergency responders and crisis planning, telecommunications will be knocked out, either through cyberoperations or ...

Round of talks. on the belarus border. what about belarus role and how ukrainians feel about that? >> last week, we know that the president of belarus had said that belarus has no plans to get involved in this conflict. recently as monday, ukrainian intelligence was suggesting that belarus troops were perhaps readying themselves to get involved. the "washington post" was quoting an american source saying something similar. now according to to the ukrainian negotiators. thats no longer the case. ...

With rifles and machine guns. i can say that russian army, regular army infantry groups fight well. they even have food packs which is expired few years ago. so, they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion -- how many armored vehicles, tanks do you think youve destroyed? >> right now, more than 20. its not only tanks. its like tanks and other vehicle. >> does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now, we destroy almost 20...

They havent been able to combine air and ground warfare, they havent been able to bring to bear their offensive cyber capability, they havent been able to break at a tactical level the ukrainian armed forces, they havent been able to paralyze the civilian leadership with civilian casualties. in essence, they havent yet taken a major city, not odesa which is vital, not kyiv, not kharkiv. the west is still relatively free of russian forces. by the way, they may have lost as many as 10% of their fi...

Takers and others armored vehicles. >> reporter: does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now we destroy almost 200 russians, captured live close to six or eight soldiers. >> reporter: hes recovering from injuries sustained during a combat operation. >> pulled down from the breach, which is blow up. half of my ribs are broken. >> reporter: he says his men have started to receive some foreign weapons, shoulder-fired missiles, and hes confident ukraine will ha...

I can say that russian army, regular army, infantry groups fight well. they even have food packs, which is expired few years ago so they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion. how many armored vehicles/tanks do you think you have destroyed? >> right now, um, more than 20. its not only tanks. its like tanks and other armored vehicle. >> reporter: does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now, we destroy almost 200 russia...