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Defend kyiv was anti-armor systems and basically missiles that could stop tanks in their tracks and couldnt roll over kyiv and stinger missiles to shoot down the helicopters that were bringing in paratroopers to try to take over the city from the air. in the second phase of the war, ukraine really neated artillery in the east to stop the more traditional advances of the russian military. as we head into the spring, what ukraine really needs is armor. infantry-fighting vehicles and yes, tanks and...

The ukrainians ask for something, the administration is ambivalent, and time passes, there is a clamor that builds and then he started leaning toward it and finally delivers it. that is what happens with himars and patriots and the abrams tank. fighter jets is now the issue. it feels like if youre going to do it through or four months later, why not do it now given the speed is of the essence? what is going on that always leads to this pattern where you do eventually say yes, but its now four or...

Asking the u.s. for f-16 fighter jets, but president biden said on friday that they dont need the f-16s now. they dont have the training and capacity to use the jets, but is the real reason youre not giving ukraine these jets because youre trying to balance how far to go in supporting ukraine without antagonizing russia too much? >> the real reason, dana, is that we are taking a real hard look at what it is that ukraine needs for the immediate phase of the worry that were in and this phase of th...

Ruling it out for now. although he said similar things before about sanctions and missiles, and tax, and other military equipment that the united states eventually did agree to. but as ukraine shores up its relationship with its allies, so does russia. u.s. officials recently said that china is considering providing artillery shells to russia, which is running low on ammunition after a year of war. yesterday, china even called for a cease-fire. and for ukraines allies to end the sanctions that h...

Do, to clamp down on efforts to circumvent sanctions? >> so i think specifically on china, there is one thing that china hates more than anything else, and thats global economic instability. china relies on the west for buying its goods, buying its products and services. china will not want to escalate instability. of course china will not want to see russia humiliated either. i think were going to have to play a capital diplomatic game. we can expect to see the west go much harder on sanctions ...

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>> yeah, yasmin. the latest we know is that over to a new over two billion dollar aid package that was unveiled yesterday, that includes everything from a high tech drone and rockets to new ammunition. but noticeably absent from that package where those f-16 fighter jets that president zelenskyy has repeatedly asked not just the u.s., but also western allies for. remember, president biden committed to sending abrams tanks last month. but he said no when asked whether he would send those fighter ...

Abrams tank. fighter jets is now the issue. it feels like if youre going to do it, three or four months later, why not do it now? given that speed is of the essence. what is going on that always leads to this pattern where you do eventually say, yes, but its now four, six months later? >> so first, fareed, the way that our military and our intelligence community makes recommendations to the presidents they look at the needs of the ukrainian military during the phase of the war that they are conf...

>> so, will they get fighter jets? >> when it comes to f-16s, this is important for the current phase of the war. this point is important for the current phase of the war. which is theyre about to mount a significant counteroffensive. from our perspective, f-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. it is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now. f-16s are not a question for the short term fight. f-16s our question for the long term defense of ukraine. and thats a con...

In their tracks so they couldnt roll over kyiv and anti-air systems like stinger missiles to shoot down the helicopters that were bringing in paratroopers to try to take over the city from the air. in the second phase of the war, ukraine really needed artillery in the east to stop the more traditional advances of the russian military. as we head into the spring, what ukraine really needs is armor. infantry fighting vehicles and, yes, tanks and were providing those. the president was advised by h...