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leaving minefields in place. but there is of course the risk the russians could break through. and one of the major concerns for ukraine right now is troop levels. kyiv needs to mobilize an additional 100,000 menjust to maintain current force strength, mobilisation rates we re told are below 50% of their target and may be as low as 15% in some regions. president zelensky said last night without volunteers, he will have to draught of half a million men. but who would volunteer without the weapons to fight? translation: they suggested to mobilise additional- 450,000 to 500,000 people, which is a very significant amount of people. and i told that i would need to have more arguments to support that, cos this is primarily a question of people, it s about the justice and the fairness, it s about the defence capacity and the question of funding. as for the people, i need specifics. the us secretary of state antony blinken said there is no other magic pot of money for support ....
Described the american support as vital and said it would save thousands of lives. Russian officials said it would further ruin ukraine and result in the deaths of even more ukrainians. The focus is now on when the aid will arrive, with reports suggesting it could begin within days. Our first report is from our North America correspondent nomia iqbal. On this vote, the yays are 311 and the nays are 112. The bill is passed. The moment has been a long time coming. After more than six months, a bill pledging further military aid for ukraine finally passed. Translation today we have got the decision we were waiting for on the american Support Package for which we fought so hard. President zelensky, how is. . President zelensky had personally met with us lawmakers to lobby for support. Many in congress waved ukrainian plans during voting, but there was still divisions, with member ....
From the clip that you played. but we talked about, you know, what would a ukrainian victory look like? we talked about what he needed from the west. but for me, the most powerful bit of that interview was when i, towards the end, i asked him about vladimir putin and i asked him, you know, what about vladimir putin? and he said something that was just stuck with me ever since, he said, putin is throwing russian soldiers like logs into a train s furnace. and he just couldn t believe it. you could tell in his voice that he couldn t believe someone could act with such inhumanity. and it was in such stark contrast, i think, to him, and he s, as you all know, iryna, 0leksiy, he is the, kind of, public face of this coming together of ukraine. i don t think he s running the war effort in a sort of detailed churchillian manner. his role in this is to be the public face, to be the international face he is doing it brilliantly. and he s epitomising the resistance, the humanity ....
And the ministry of defence to define certain rules that journalists should oblige with, not to harm the military, not to breach any wartime laws or rules, and at the same, time perform theirjobs. so you re looking for greater clarity for journalists, and it looks very likely, unless there s some surprise turn of events in the talks in turkey, that this conflict will continue, that journalists will need to continue telling the story. but there is increasing amounts of evidence that perhaps interest in the conflict in ukraine is beginning to decline, admittedly from a point of huge interest around the world. 0leksiy and lyse, i d like to ask you about this, 0leksiy, can you see a decline in the number of people coming to you to learn about the war? yes, obviously we peaked at the end of february. i and starting in the early days ....