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To reinforce that bowel they think is going to take place in the east. and at the same token, ukraine military can now reinforce itself on interior lines inside the country, get there a lot quicker and start the attacks and continue to probe and continue counterattacks. so russia does not have any momentum and i dont see how they are going to gain any momentum by doing that over the next few weeks. he needs -- vladimir putin needs to find victory someplace. ukraine wins by not losing and its jus...

Ukraines defense minister said that later people will come under fire and we wont be able to help them. it comes days after reports of war crimes against civilians as russian forces were retreating from the capital of kyiv and surrounding areas. the white house hit russia with new rounds of sanctions including some targeting the adult children of vladimir putin. the moves were announced yesterday in response to horrific scenes out of bucha. in addition to the sanctions against the children of pu...

Whats happened in ukraine would have never happened if we had not been flooding the zone with u.s. weapons, with nato weapons, with russian -- old russian weapons that former warsaw countries had. thats just the reality of it. nobody is going to stop and say that now. it is always -- and i understand this is how democracies work and this is why were vibrant. nobody stops like for a victory lap. we are also asking what can you do next. lets ask that question. how do we help the ukrainians even mo...

Weapons systems that the united states and other nations supplied to ukraine were effective in stopping that advance. and now we see it push back. natos assessment, russia regrouping and the type of battles that it might fight in the eastern south of ukraine may look and feel different, will be harder for the ukrainians. so an effort to address how to fight this phase of the war. it could involve tanks. it could involve armored fighting vehicles. we know that the australians for example have com...

Do so. and then send them forward, the drones, so the ukrainian military can use them. you mentioned the javelins. that is another extremely, extremely important fight for the ukrainian military. theyre against the russians in ukraine. another one that has already been pretty effective and is likely to be more effective in this next phase of this military campaign is the stinger. it is an anti aircraft missile. it is able to take out russian aircraft like helicopters. >> and so, what about the n...

Lets start -- i remember seeing that and thinking that is the kind of bravado that you would want from a government official, but i was not quite sold that that was correct at a military level. it does seem at this point the battle for kyiv in the initial stages has been won by the ukrainians and they have repelled the russian advances? is that with the u.s. government sees? >> nobody is spiking the football here to say that kyiv is completely out of danger. if you look at this as one of the fac...

Does that knowing that the message spreads around the world. he echoes that call for more weapons and more assistance. this is a conflict which is six weeks old today. ukraine managed to do militarily far better than military analysts thought that they would and managed to push back russian forces in many parts of the country and managed to hold on to places like kyiv and now the war is moving into a new phase. we know russia have their eyes on the east of the country, the donbas region and some...

No, i dont i dont believe that they do. i dont see any evidence that i dont or any of us that putin even initially thought that he wanted to. i definitely think that he wanted to everything east of the napa river and he may still harbor those hopes, but everything is going to depend on what happens in this next battle thats starting to unfold already in the donbas area because all those troops that he did that general stoltenberg did just mentioned theyre coming down from kyiv and sue me in khar...

Might just not know yet, is where exactly will russia begin the next phase of this campaign. the one thing that they do agree on is that russia is believed to be the next -- the next assault will be in the southeast in the donbas. one of the reasons for that is that the russians already had military forces and contractors in the donbas area. they also have a strong logistical supply there. the belief is that the forces will move in north of there, they will surround the ukrainian military that a...

Question right now how this ends. ideally, putin decides to cease-fire, stop his aggression, and theres some sort of diplomatic intervention but right now that doesnt look like its on the horizon. >> so, courtney, it does seem as if the strategy now is they want to see how much of the east they can control before they start sending down. >> thats right. the russian military has decided that they had three big mistakes in the early phase of this campaign. one was just they spread themselves too t...