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To be civilians, lying in the streets, some of them with their hands tied behind their backs, others in mass graves. president zelenskyy, who visited bucha today, called these the acts of genocide. the kremlin is denying the reports, accusing ukrainians of staging these images, but they have provided zero evidence to back up that claim. ukraine's prosecutor general says the bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from kyiv area towns that were recently retaken from those russian forces. about an hour ago, pentagon spokesman john kirby reiterated the u.s. support for ukraine and noted that th...

Up and fortify them? >> well, you've heard us talk about this now over the last few days. it's about getting them security assistance as much as we can as fast as we can, including from other nations, so we're going to continue to do that, and i think you heard jake sullivan talk about this earlier today. just friday, we announced another 300 million in security assistance that we're going to now go out and procure on an expedited contracting basis to get inside ukraine, and there could be additional security assistance that we announce in coming days. we're also, again, working with other all...

Again, stingers. we have flown in thousands of -- i'm sorry, well, multiple hundreds of stinger missiles into ukraine that they're using very, very effectively. they're short-range air defense but they know how to use them and they're doing that quite well. that's going to continue going forward, so they are actually doing a good job protecting their skies. in fact, the air space over ukraine remains contested, and largely that's because the ukrainians have been able to be so nimble and so effective in protecting that air space. >> igor nobikov is a former advisor to president zelenskyy, who's...

This is in sync with the air campaign. but it's another terrible sign of what the ukrainians are fighting against. now to add in syrians and the wagner group -- by the way, they weren't very good in syria either. they dropped barrel bombs and poison gas on innocent civilians hiding in basements. so, russia is a brutal war machine that's failing. putin's scared. he's desperate. he's got very few good options, but he is not backing off. we need to accelerate and upgrade support of the ukrainian military. >> general barry mccaffrey, pete strzok, we'll continue to call on both of you, thank you so...

Combat power swallowed up in ukraine. now they're bringing in mercenaries and calling up conscripts. now's the time to give the ukrainians what they need at an operational level of war, not battalion level, but 100,000 ukrainians need the tools and the mobility to attack the russians and not let them reposition the battlefield. >> pete strzok, i think something that the world has woken up to is something of an expertise of yours and that is putin's levers of power include copious amounts of propaganda that his base and beyond his base the russian public accept, hook, line, and sinker. tell me ...