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Munition. its launched out of a mortar tube. the army classifies it as a missile rather than a drone. theyre small. the first variant is about six pounds and the warhead is about the size of a hand grenade. the other version is about 50 pounds and it does have a light armor capability. but directly to answer your question, the fact of the matter is weapons by themselves are neither offensive or defensive. its how theyre used that determines which. its important to remember that russia invaded uk...

In ukraine. we are seeing that the terror is still going on in syria. we understand that donald trump wanted to turn syria over to the russians for the first time since is it 73, giving them -- you said, you know, we may just have to send those 2,500, those 3,000 troops back into syria to act as peacekeepers again. im not saying we do it, but putting it out there and asking vladimir putin, okay, youre saying we cant cross that line. fine, i tell you one line we can cross. we can go back into syr...

Poorly led, poorly executed russian offensive. and its really reached, i think as weve been describing over the past couple of days, a culmination point, which means theyre dead in their tracks. they now have to go onto the defensive, and they need to be resupplied. ammunition personnel, need to evacuate casualties, et cetera. so, that gives the ukrainians a great advantage. and as pete just described, with this additional kit, they really can take the fight that much more aggressively. and what...

Artillery and rockets. that is the next step. but its an optimistic picture on the ground from a soldiers point of view. >> how about false optimism? ambassador taylor, earlier today the russian foreign minister said there is hope for reaching a compromise. do you see that in any way? i mean, at the same time putin gave a dramatic, rambling speech full of lies to his own people, saying that while russian was doing was all defensive and protecting against nazis. lie, lie, lie. >> stephanie, of co...

Defensive weapons. migs are planes that are offensive weapons which are a different military system. the other assessment that weve done not through the white house or the president, but from the department of defense is to assess what is effective and what works in terms of fighting this war on the ground. thats why we provided an additional $1 billion, 800 million announced today but $1 billion this week of assistance. utilizing a number of the high level military systems, stingers, counter ar...

And driving up the southwest of the country, up to lviv, we passed a couple of big checkpoint, one of those checkpoints jonathan had a four 1/2 mile long, had a backup of cars, and our driver was pointing out all of the license plates were karkhiv, kyiv, all people, cars stuffed full, fleeing from the east. when we got up to lviv, a city that is relatively safe, they are establishing a ring of steel and the final checkpoint we had to go through and part of the city, growing defensive in the last...

Statement. mike: so i guess as we look at the battle right now, a lot of emphasis on the seaports. where do things go from here? >> yeah. i think the russians go on to the defensive. they start to dig in. they probably cant defend something like that, theyre going to have to pull in because right now the russians have hundreds upon hundreds of lines that theyre going to have to defend. they dont have the forces to really to mount an effective defense. the russians are really in a tough spot here...

♪ ♪ >> you say that you will do whatever you can to reduce the impact of high gas prices on american. we are asking other countries to think about may be pumping more oil. why not to wait here? >> to be very clear, federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas. let me finish, let me finish. peter... let me give you the facts here. i know that can be inconvenient, but i think they are important in this moment. there are 9,000 approved drilling permits not being used. the sugge...

Heard an all out assault across the southern region of ukraine, which is the only region of ukraine that actually has access to the sea. here some the first ukrainian city to be captured by russian forces is quickly running out of medical supplies. mario poll also in the southern part of the country has been under siege cut off from access to the water, power, food supplies. now its going on for days. in the southern city of odessa where we just got that live report, the population there is actu...

Ben wallace is saying, "look, these weapons are in a kind "of grey area. theyre kind of offensive, but we can still say "theyre within the category of defensive." lets have more self—confidence in ourselves to be able to assess and take the necessary risks to stand up to putin, because at the moment were not affecting the agenda. what weve seen here, if i can just finish this point, is the tactics that putin originally employed, thinking that he was going to liberate a country, that didnt work...