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Configuration of the command control system in the way that makes it more robust and less vulnerable to any potential intervention. so we havent seen and the united states just confirmed however today that the united states doesnt see any movement of actual weapon systems, that would indicate some physical changes in a strategic posture. it does appear that the changes are not as profound as it appeared at ist. today the administer for defence in russia reported that from now on, following the o...

People, let him ourfuture is no longer with the west. we need to turn with our friend, our ally, longer with the west. we need to turn with ourfriend, our ally, the person who is going to buy up all those oil and gas now, china. {elite those oil and gas now, china. give me a quick — those oil and gas now, china. give me a quick answer _ those oil and gas now, china. give me a quick answer on _ those oil and gas now, china. give me a quick answer on this. ukraines ambassador to the uk said toda...

Predominantly old soviet equipment and it does include some of the front line fighters that the soviet union used to have, however these weapon systems are old and they are not quite a match to the highest end of russian weapons that currently exist, but they can definitely be used and they are certainly anecdotal stories of them using their old weapons. as far as integrating the western weapons into the ukrainian military, that takes a little bit of finesse and the ukrainians seem to be pretty ...

City and prepared for the defense and each and every day, it gets stronger. >> let me ask you this. because russia has proven in previous military conflicts and theres some evidence already here in ukraine, but its proven in the past, its willingness to use horrible, horrible weapons and weapon systems. th thermoberic weapons. are ukrainian officials concerned that russia uses similar weapons to get its prize? the city of 3 million people in the ukrainian capital to get kyiv? >> of course, ukrai...

Early to say whether its a war crime. do you think this conflicts with those reports? >> if the ambassador to the u.n. confirmed that they are banned, then thats a war crime. the overall response to the crisis has been sound. >> tukalk to me about the lethality of these weapons. cluster munitions, vacuum bombs. why does this take the weaponry to a new level? >> these are weapon systems that are banned by the geneva convention. cluster bombs are munitions that are designed to explode and carry ou...

And rest of the allies as well when they started building up their forces and theyve built them up well before christmas when pulling 30,000, 40,000, 60,000, 70,000. look putin does not bluff when he said he was coming to ukraine, hes going to go into ukraine. and we should have been building up armorments back then we waited part of the reason we said is because we believed if we did it was going to be and six weeks it would have been an example an trained up pilots that are current pilots in t...

Seen so far in recent days, how is the ukrainian military fairing? is the ukrainian military fairin: ? �* ., fairing? about where i would have expected. _ fairing? about where i would have expected. we - fairing? about where i would have expected. we usually i fairing? about where i would l have expected. we usually use the weapon systems to take out tanks in the antiaircraft taking out aircraft and from my perspective performing about where they have performed and i think it is surprising vla...

About reaching civilians — theyre not trying to, but theyre currently not worried — so on a whole, this could get worse. and this type of equipment is already in ukraine, theyre just waiting to use it? exactly, so that piece of the equipment was a signature piece we saw, one of the things that made us think kyiv was going to be invaded. the presence of those weapon systems north of the city. what we are currently concerned about, what you can see on the screen there, this is russias biggest ...

Now conducting a full-scale invasion of the ukraine with all of the chaos and carnage that is part of war. and the hope is that we can try to provide sufficient arms to the ukrainians so that they can put up an effective resistance. i think the fact that the pentagon is reporting that russian progress is not to the level that everybody assumed it would be is largely because the ukrainians are putting up a fight and using the weapon systems that we provided. and i think its important that we prov...

And vladimir putin, he seems to be struggling in this engagement but also internationally. we know that he is a pariah across the world and his desire for his runway for opportunity is trifle and these types of weapon systems, i mentioned the chemical and biological and obviously the nuclear are devastating and would create complete the world altering events. weve got to prevent their use and if any of them are use, especially these chemical and biological weapons, but most seriously there must ...