military perspective on just how good is the ukrainian military since this buildup since 2014 we've armed them and the ukrainian insurgents which we're flow planning to arm. >> of course ambassador taylor was aeroambassador in ukraine. i think they'll agree they've made considerable progress. we've had the troops along nato troops. they have work to do. they've improved significantly. we've moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of armaments to them. there are training missions working with them. they will fight, and they will fight hard. and the further the russians go into ukraine because they're moving in that routing from the russian ethnic part in the east