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The view of intelligence officials is one, that this weapon systems is so-called system was supplied to the pro russian rebelled by russia and that they were trained by russia to use the system. really the question now is not how much russian cull ability but how much? >> the russians are blaming ukraine. you pointed out in our last hour that there was possibly kind of a -- something of a trial balloon floated earlier today at the u.n. >> its interesting. at the first opening, i certainly heard ...

Sovereignty throughout all of ukraine? >> it is incredibly difficult and truthfully as everybody now says and understands, the only way for that to happen is for the russian president to be fully engage on this. the last time i spoke to president poroshenko was just a few weeks ago and he at that time had -- there was a cease fire under way. he had offered a peace plan and that eventually was not taken up by the separatists or by president putin, and i asked him, i said, in order for this to be ...

Discov discover who exactly is responsible. the russians are involved, increasing their presence and military support including high-end weapon systems in eastern ukraine. theyre not going to stop based on the sanctions so then we have to figure out what to do after that. >> colonel, this is where my question comes in. isnt this a case, if you can become a very big country with a very big arsenal and have nuclear weapons and obviously theres all sorts of other countries you see that might be loo...

Pentagon. he answered questions from the press. in that press briefing he said nato had observed that surface h-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft missile systems, not just the shoulder-fived ones, but the big vehicle surface-to-air missiles designed to shoot down airplanes, those had been observed in eastern ukraine and just across the border in western russia. okay? and this is 2 1/2 weeks before the plane was shot down. he said it was natos observation that russian forces had started training the...

In that press briefing he said nato had observed that surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft missile systems, not just the shoulder-fired ones, but the big vehicle surface-to-air missiles designed to shoot down airplanes, those had been observed in eastern ukraine and just across the border in western russia. okay? and this is 2 1/2 weeks before the plane was shot down. he said it was natos observation that russian forces had started training the separatists in ukraine on how to use those comple...

Launchers are being turned around. first, the question is how damning is that? you cant refute that evidence. and is it all -- were tracking this, were hearing this from ukrainian officials, but were also tracking this with our own united states intelligence. were confirming what he is saying. >> well, thats right. so far, all of these reports, according to the u.s. officials weve talked to, rather than confirming it, theyll use that sort of evasive language to say we cant dispute it, which ofte...

To providing artillery tanks and some of these missile systems, the russian military had to provide trainers and advisers to show these separatists how to operate these systems. even though some of those separatists are former russian military, not all of them are well versed or trained in using some of these more sophisticated weapon systems. and were told that some of those russian trainers, in fact, have been embedded with the separatists at different intervals and different times. again, lea...

To shoot a civilian airplane out of the sky or they thought it was a ukrainian plane that happened to be wondering around in that air space. >> jim miklaszewski, what are you hearing? >> that is exactly right. these weapon systems are somewhat sophisticated but not so uniquely sophisticated, once their radar locks in, they are not going to differentiate between a civilian plane or a military plane. i can tell you some of the u.s. officials ive been talking to yesterday, even though they were cer...

Evidence and what witnesses and reporters on the ground have been seeing in recent days as pentagon officials have been confirming it has been a flood of weapons including the surface to air weapon systems coming across the border from russia and no coincidence the russian announces sanctions against russia because great concern russia is interfering in ukraine internal affairs and by sending these weapons across border and sending 10 to 12,000 new russian troops to occupy border positions in th...

Strategy to this point. the trouble is we have seen these iraqi forces not perform so well in the last 24 to a 48 hours. what can dyou do short of air strikes increase that ability in the near term. we have a number of weapon systems in the pipeline now, f-16 fighters and ap patch cach helicopters approved by the u.s. you could accelerate them in and give them more power from the air and they did one air strike today. and giver them more options going forward. those assets become more vulnerable...