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Nato in particular in dealing with russia in general and most recently it was the mig issue. unclear why poland was ready do it directly and then they were like no. we still dont know the full back story there. i notice it hasnt come up so far on this trip. do you expect it to? >> reporter: well, it will be interesting to see if it was a part of the private conversations we dont have a sense of that. certainly the president of poland was speaking today, he was emphasizing unity. they seemed to h...

The support is going and it is going very fast. in fact, of the $800 million that the president just signed out not long ago, we have already delivered four shipments on that tranche alone and more coming in. in fact, another one arrived today. it is not just the united states, joe. other nations are also contributing security assistance, materials, weapon systems, missiles and all of that stuff flowing in there. when we were in europe just last week secretary austin got a chance to meet with hi...

Beginning of the conflict, the referendum itself and the specific focus. so show us what is happening in donbas since it may be the crux of this whole thing. >> right, absolutely, as we described, this is the donbas region and clearly the objective being to create what has been described as a land bridge from crimea up into russia so they dont have to just use the straights of asov. but getting into donbas very specifically, this is the area were talking about and what has been happening specifi...

Battalions can be freed up, turned to the northeast. the new forces augmenting are going to come in from the east. this is why theres this urgency in president zelensky and his government to get all that they could possibly get. the u.s. is providing extraordinary amounts of weapon systems and supplies. she has a number of other nato countries. the problem at this point in time is a lot of what they want we dont have. why dont have the russian caliber or the eastern block heavy artillery pieces ...

The slow process of transferring weapons has caused people to question at times whether the u.s. wants ukraine to win. he hedged a little bit when he was asked if he think if the president is afraid of vladimir putin and putin will respond if russia loses, what do you make of those answers of zelenskyy? congresswoman: what i would say we are speaking two different audiences. president zelenskyy needs to make sure shes pushing for the populist and also for the people who hes speaking to, nato ali...

Helicopter gunship imagine what a fighter jet could do on the russian side of the border. this week u.s. and nato commander if the united states is not training ukrainian forces in poland you asked the question why not. what was the answer you got for that? >> well, the answer we got from the commanding general of nato, thats a policy decision which really was diplomatically saying thats a decision the white house has to make. if were providing the weapons, we need to provide the instruction on ...

Quite well. they have the same kind of systems that you find in most military mining devices. but the 600s are even better because they are tank killers. they have the same munition built in as the javelin. another important point. we have all heard of the so-called international legion that the the international legion ukraines have been building with former military from around the world. there are quite a number of u.s. special forces veterans in ukraine who have been trained up -- not even t...

You go to turkey and you say the drones, fantastic. can you get the drones in there? erdogan says, would love to but because of the cameras that run the drones, we cant get them because canada is sanctioning us and we have to lift those. then you have to call canada and get the sanctions -- it is never as easy as, hey, country a, send that because there are three different countries that have to coordinate and then the united states has to back fill, which is $2 billion, $3 billion for some of t...

This abstract strategic defeat, actual battlefield victory and part of that is training that asked the head of nato last week, why arent we training the ukrainians in poland or in other locations. withdrawing billions of dollars weapons at them and they dont come with youtube instructions you actually have to provide a training for themm it to be able use a weapon systems effectively in the number two see you, we saw the first incident possibly ukraine hitting russia proper and hitting that oil ...

Ukraine win? not this abstract term strategic defeat, an actual battlefield victory. and part of that is training. i asked the head of nato last week why arent we training the ukrainians in poland or in other locations? were throwing billions of dollars of weapons at them. they dont come with youtube instructions. you actually have to provide training for them to be able to use these weapon systems effectively, and then number two, steve, we saw the first incident possibly of ukraine hitting rus...