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Monday and chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell offer the option of an amendment vote if the bill was passed, but refused the offer and to at this and adopt his amendment before voting on the package. paul says, this is a second spending bill for ukraine in two months and congress just wants to keep spending. the institute for the study of forces russia once again did not gain any ground in ukraine on thursday. but russia conducted more air and artillery strikes against the ukrainians and the steel...

In places like kramatorsk. seizing this corner of eastern ukraine, with its close ties to russia, was supposed to be an easier task for the kremlin�*s blundering army. but the blundering goes on. "my shop is hardly a strategic target," says lilia, with contempt. and all this is stiffening the resolve of ukrainian soldiers. we met this tank unit, holding their ground at a spot where russia has been trying to break through. they badly need better equipment, but they have other strengths. we are ...

The resolve of ukrainian soldiers. we met this tank unit, holding their ground at a spot where russia has been trying to break through. they badly need better equipment, but they have other strengths. we are unity. we fight for our independence from russia. russians soldiers fight for money. they dont much await it as much as we. they were not motivated as way. the russians have been pounding these front line positions for weeks now, but the big picture here in the donbas is that the kremlins of...

Freedom for every one of us, says a village elder, his lip trembling. glory to our heroes. a lonely ukrainian were playing thunderous overhead. the front lines are just town a away to the north. and the defiant spirit is growing here, too, as the bombs fall at random. seizing this corner of eastern ukraine, with its close ties to russia, was supposed to be an easier task for the kremlins blundering army. but the kremlins blundering army. but the blundering goes on. my shop is hardly a strategic ...

Officials you spoke with said once you hit a 10% casualty rate your effectiveness in carrying out combat tasks suddenly just drop off, drop off a cliff. can you get into that a little bit more? because the russians, if you look at these numbers even on the conservative side and then multiply out what that means for those injured on the battle field, theyre bumping up against that 10%. >> thats right. so were looking at units, these are tank units, these are armored columns that are going in. if ...

Should say, a long tank column, russian vehicles, and ukrainian forces essentially attacking it from multiple angles using anti-tank missiles. you can hear what appears to be some kind of audio recording from a russian soldier in that tank unit, who is saying that his commander has taken a casualty, and so this is something that people are now watching very, very closely, anderson, because it is certainly a grim and ominous warning of things to come, fighting now spreading further and further ar...

Democratic foreign policy the way we fight wars, the way we have the lengthy times in country without having clear strategy and vision. when you read what mcmaster has been saying -- having a clear end to your war fighting claims and communicating that to the american people. these are things that havent been done in a long time. it matches well with trump. >> he commanded a tank unit in the iraqi battle. thats the first persian gulf war. he wrote a book criticizing -- he led a regiment in 2005 ...

"rolling stone" published photos more than a dozen, taken by members of a tank unit who call themselves the kill team. the rogue band of soldiers accused of slaughtering innocence, defenseless afghans. with me now, nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. whats the biggest consequence of these photos being public? >> reporter: well, at this point the biggest consequence is for many of those soldiers who have already been charged, some of them convicted. one sentenced to 24 years i...

Militiamen or fighters are roaming the streets, aks bristling. they are ready to do battle with anyone who tempts them to do so. the big question, richard, of course, and you alluded to this earlier, what do the nato war planes do, do they tyke out gadhafi tanks and troops? if they do that, in what name? protecting civilians? in sirte, the civilians are protected by gadhafi. back to you. >> jim, thank you. we had a couple of technical difficulties with that connection. gruesome new details abo...