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Arms depots, bridges, theyve been super successful. at the worst of the war in seven months, 200 ukrainian soldiers were dying every day, another has been massively reduced and a lot of it has to do with these long—range rockets, the himars systems, so the us committed to sending formal today. its not much but will help. the more, the better, is the bottom line.— help. the more, the better, is the bottom line. the mall, the better, the bottom line. the mall, the better. but _ the bottom line...

Very precisely at 50-plus miles that each carries a 200-pound warhead to hit a target. or you can fire one atacm that goes about 150 miles or one target. the difference between the two missiles, one, it carries 200 pounds of explosive, the atacm carries 500 pounds of explosives. what ukraine is in now, alisyn, a close fight. theyre fighting the enemy from 10 to 50 miles out. so the determination has been made by the department of defense thats what they need right now, if theyre going to shift t...

More, katie bo, tell us more. >> yeah, this offer that alex marquardt is reporting is just the latest by ukraine to try to convince the united states to give them the attack ems, the longer range missiles that the u.s. has been providing ukraine for about four months now. now, ukraine wants the longer range system to strike deeper into russian-occupied areas of ukraine to strike things like logistics lines to strike things like ammo depots even the launching point of these iranian drones that ru...

Actions there are literally dozens if not hundred us of reactions or co-actions to take in response to that. >> what about that offer from ukraine that they would share their target list with the u.s., if that would nullify the u.s. in terms of offering up longer range missiles -- is that a good plan? >> well, one of the things, its interesting because theres a hue and cry for himars. id like to just clarify a couple things, himars are the trucks that the missiles are launched from. they can eit...

Systems. were not going to use them to strike russian territory directly. and ukrainian officials rightly point out in some cases the himars systems do have the range necessary to strike inside russia and theyre not doing it. this is just the latest efforts by the ukrainians to try to convince the u.s. to give them the weapons. >> also cnn has learned that the biden administration has received demands in case the russians increase the war on ukraine further what would the u.s. do? >> look, the u...

>> first of all, i can say that our soldiers are really motivated because we have our home and thats the answer for everything, we have no option to give up. we had just to win. and also, we are really grateful for all the people in the world that support us and especially, too, u.s. government and people for the huge support and with powerful weapons they gave us. for example, the himars systems, they are super successful and super accurate. actually, my position is a sniper school instructor, ...

Ph.d.s to manual labor. and i had a ceo in my office last week who made a speech at the graduation speech at an engineering school. he said 80% to 90% of the graduates were from foreign countries. none of them can stay here. these are people we need. we need to figure out how to do legal immigration safely while at the same time dealing with security at the border. i think that can be done, and i can tell you that there are some sort of quiet discussions going on in the senate to try to find a w...

Just pointed out, the ukrainians have a good presence just north of kherson. so the objective clearly is to try to isolate that, cut through that, create a corridor that then would allow the ukrainians to hold to the east and then try to reduce in the direction of the west toward kherson. they have the capability of doing that. what we have not seen to date is the ukrainians achieving great tactical success in order to push the russians back. this would be the first time. now, bear in mind, ther...

The US Defense Department on Friday announced a new $775 million package of defense equipment and ammunition for Ukraine, including various types of missiles, artillery and mine-clearing systems.

The defense ministry says the armed forces have taken full control of the town in eastern Ukraine.