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Considering sending air defense equipment to those countries on natos eastern flank, those nato allies. because the airspace is so close, the concern, the russians have already fired some 600 or more missiles of various categories, many of them ballistic missiles. if any of those missiles go astray across the border into a nato country or if the russians calculate they want to strike inside nato, there needs to be some additional kind of air defense capability. some kind of system that could pot...

Our eyes. you can call up on the internet, publicly available satellite images and see that 17 to 40-mile long convoy. different estimates of it. wheeling its way down towards the capital in slow motion here. you know, another piece, john, being talked a lot about is what is putins state of mind and so on. but one thing thats clear and consistent is that putin is willing to use these weapon systems. that does not require guess work because hes done it before. the play book, if you go back to che...

There are sirens multiple times a day. yesterday afternoon, yesterday after morning from the city of kharkiv ukraine which is the side of some of the fiercest findings right now as the russian forces tend to take that city and hit drastically escalated in the campaign to do so and conducting indiscriminate attacks with extremely destructive weapon systems on civilian areas. >> i know you told katie yesterday that one show you estimated landed more than 300 meters away from. you describe some of ...

Puppet leader? i think we havejust lost you? puppet leader? i think we have ust lost ou? , , . lost you? there is very little that can be done _ lost you? there is very little that can be done now. _ lost you? there is very little that can be done now. russian - lost you? there is very little that can be done now. russian troops lost you? there is very little that - can be done now. russian troops are on the march, they have taken over the country. as you heard from the defence secretary, they a...

Some are lamenting that this is the weaponry that didnt get to the ukrainians before. now now that its in their, hands were kind of a difference can it make? >> well, its making a great difference. we know, right now, that the two weapons that are having the most impact, that youre showing on video, the javelin anti tank missile. which is a brilliant, front lined system, has a thermal imager, you can see the heat and you can see and low light. all you have to do is lock on the tanker vehicle tha...

Faced more resistance than they had calculated, right, and even surprised u.s. intelligence assessments by how slow the assault has been for russia given what they thought would happen. how concerned are you that russia will use more aggressive forces moving forward? that is terrifying to think that is being moved into ukraine. >> one of the things the russians dont do is they dont worry too much about human life or collateral damage. what we in the u.s. would call collateral damage which means ...

I would, before turning it back to you, anderson, i would comment on what kaitlan collins said earlier, she said the stinger missiles are very effective against air targets. they are to a degree, those are low altitude weapon systems. they can take and engage fighter and see helicopters at low altitude, but eventually youll see russian air forces probably bombing from higher altitudes and unfortunately, the ukrainian military does not have the kind of missile systems like a patriot or an arrow l...

Coming and theyre willing to go out there and fight. we dont know how many are going to stand and fight once the bullets start flying. we dont know about the troops. they are very close to ukrainians in that part of the country. we dont know that commitment to the fight. its really that level come about morale, it wont be weapon systems. >> see you have confidence in the people of kyiv and ukraine with this three and a half mile long column, weaponize column of vehicles. thats something. >> i wa...

Those. how does that plan work. if you fry to keep u.s. forces out of this zone, they got to get the planes there. how does that work and is it a good idea? >> well, i wouldnt go into the details of it for two reasons. first of all, some of it may be classified and second, i dont know. its going to be pretty dicy to transfer those number of weapon systems, i think the polls said in the last two hours theres about 27 aircraft of which i would guess, these are old airplanes. probably half are oper...

Gave them 2000 short—range anti—tank missiles and those missiles are depleting as the first three days of gone on in the fight and they have to be replaced that this is absolutely important to them and only about three or four years ago, the russians started hitting some of the ammunition depo is in ukraine for the fight they would take on three orfour fight they would take on three or four years later, that this is where they really need those help, with a key weapon systems with antiaircra...