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Awaiting more military aid from western allies, as russians ramp up attacks in the east and the south of this country. just today president biden approved $800 million in new security aid, including new types of equipment, such as howitzer cannons, artillery rounds, and more. the package will provide additional equipment the u.s. has sent before, such as mi-17 helicopters, switchblade drones, and protective armor. so, just how much of an impact might this have? lets bring in retired army major g...

Sizable investments, including ten counter artillery radars. howitzers, hundred of switchblade drones, 500 javelins and thousands of other antiarmor systems as well. also today, the kremlins spokesperson said its unacceptable for joe biden to describe the russian invasion of ukraine as a, saying we consider this kind of effort to distort the situation unacceptable. getting back to the domestic agenda for a moments. we told everyone about the inflation. as you know it continues to search topping ...

Theres switchblade drones and howitzers, how far will this go in helping ukraine end this war? >> don, if you take a look at the fight ukraine will have to conduct in the east, theyre going to have to have very mobile reserves. the fight they were fighting to the north of kyiv and the different axis of approaches was a hasty defense with limited counter attacks, and they executed that very well. when you look at the east of ukraine on a map, thats about a 300 mile frontage. what theyre going to ...

Jets to the ukrainians, and whether they could have provide them with another nation like poland to do it. the concern of all of this has always been the same. trying to avoid giving russia a reason to go into direct combat, or direct confrontation with american forces, un-american equipment. if you have a fighter jet taking off and an american base, the worry was, that makes that base from a russian attack, not only the plane that is in the air. giving helicopters is number one. other things th...

US President Joe Biden has announced an additional $800 million aid package for Ukraine, and inside are hundreds of deadly drones.

>> reporter: im barbara starr at the pentagon. biden administration officials say they see recent evidence of continuing poor morale problems inside the russian military that the troops inside ukraine are disillusions. they feel they were not prepared for what they are facing in this invasion. but also that the russia officer corps is frustrated with the performance of the troops and the performance of their own colleagues. we will have to see how this all plays out as thousands of troops are ex...

Afterwards that obviously the ukrainians asked for stuff they will need in what we anticipate being a heavyset-piece-style battle in the eastern part of the country, the donbas, which now will be the focus of the war. they needed javelin missiles, they need other equipment that can take out tanks and things of that matter. white house officials including president biden asked zelenskyy, what about helicopters, could you use helicopters, and the answer was yes and now we know some are heading tha...

The package comes as the war enters into a new phase, with Russian forces preparing for a major offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.

The russian forces. how big of a loss is this to mariupol? doesnt mean that the city is about to fall? >> it is a huge, loss if it is true that means that a large engine of ukrainian marines has in fact been captured. regardless of whether or not this is true, the fact remains that the ukrainian forces are surrounded here in mariupol. mariupol is the city that has a lot of shelling in difficulty for the ukrainian forces they can escape by land or by sea. it is located by the russians. >> there i...

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