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New tonight, 500,000 casualties. u.s. officials telling the new york times the total number of deaths and injuries in the ukraine now are now nearing half a million. staggering toll, 18 months ago none of them thought they d be in this situation. my guest tonight, alex drueke. he was nearly one of them after volunteering to defend ukraine from russian invaders, alex spent 105 days in russian captivity. he was captured along with andy nguyen by russian forces and held as a prisoner of war. alex experienced execution threats, physical torture, solitary confinement and food deprivation. you may remember his mother, she was on this show many times along with joy, andy s now wife, pleading for his life and safe return. alex and andy nguyen were finally released. and less than a year after being freed, alex chose to go back to help with the war effort. and alex drueke joins me now. i m really glad to speak with ....
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I even saw that during iraq and afghanistan. there is a certain degree of weariness, of tiredness. they would really love to have this war over. they are tired of their cities being bombed, their loved ones being bombed and losing limbs and lives. they re motivated to do it, but they re getting a little tired of how long it s taking. and in the counteroffensive i know look, it s been slower than anybody expected. president zelenskyy s been open about that as well. now there has been some progress in recent days. some of which, alex, i understand is because of u.s.-supplied cluster munitions. it appears that that s the reason but we haven t been able to actually confirm it. from what you were able to see, because you were there as those cluster munitions were approved by the u.s. to go over. are they playing a role now? i really think that they are. the ukrainian army has made significant progress in the south around zaporizhzhia, around kherson, even in the ....
Bakhmut direction. i really do feel like the fact that they re using the cluster munitions exactly the way those are intended to be used, it is proving very, very valuable on the battlefield. i think the biggest problem for the counteroffensive and why it s going so slow is the west was very slow in supplying the equipment and munitions that ukraine needed for the counteroffensive. and that gave the invaders months of time to dig in, make multiple laps of mine fields and trenches. but the ukrainians, they re doing their best. and once they get through them, they re absolutely going to crush them. i ve been saying it since i first came home and i ll say it again now. we need to give ukraine what it needs to win this war right now. and i promise you they re going to win the war right now. we just have to stop dragging our feet. alex, you obviously spent a long time with andy nguyen when you were in captivity and enduring what you endured, the torture and the psychological ....