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they would be surrounded and captured, though theyre leaving behind a trail of destruction. >> cnns sam kiley is live in kharkiv, ukraine, with an exclusive look at what remains there now. hes the first international correspondent inside izyum since the liberation of that city. sam, tell us what youre seeing. >> well, brianna, it has been an extraordinary campaign by the ukrainians, opening with a counteroffensive in the south, possibly drawing off russian troops there, and now preside...

Now. except for, i had a couple more pieces of context here. the reason the ethics 16 is not crucial right now is, for two reasons, number one, in order to have an operational at 16 in ukraine, you dont only have to train the pilots, theres an incredibly long logistics tale that has to go with it. you have to have mechanics, you have to have spare parts, and you have to have airfields set up to accommodate an f 16. all of that would cost enormous amount of money. even if right now today, we deci...

Right now. >> general, do you agree with the assessment of the logistical problems the russians will face? >> completely. it takes a lot of tonnage to bring up shells and fuel, and now the russians have a logistics tale. they have to defend the roads. there will be -- there will be stay-behind ukrainian forces bypassed in the russian thrust. they will come out and make it hard to supply. russians have a term "correlation of forces." yes, they have enough forces to do a quick strike in good-sized...