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These appear to be chronic difficulties that they have had with command and control, unit cohesion, integration of air to ground, all problems that they still suffer from. so it remains to be seen whether they have, quote, fixed these problems and are ready to execute in a more efficient way in the donbas. our assessment is that they are still struggling with a lot of these problems. part of the reason we're talking about shaping regions in the donbas is because russians are trying to learn from their mistakes. in the last few days we've seen them move in. command and control enablers, aviatio...

Chronic difficulties that the russian military had in terms of logistic, sustain and control, unit cohesion, integration of air to ground. all problems they still suffer from. our assessment is they are still struggling. part of the reason we're talk about shaping operations in the donbas is because the russians are trying to learn from their mistakes. in the last few days we have seen them move in. command and control enablers, aviation support, largely helicopters. moving in artillery units ahead of what would be massive ground movement by troops or larger ground movements by troops. it appe...

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>> well, i think they're looking at this as part of this new phase already beginning. i think what we're seeing is these troops, according to this u.s. defense official, they were some of the first to leave northern ukraine, they're reappearing in the east, which is where we're expecting this new phase to begin. we're not talking about a huge number of troops yet. we're talking about some aviation support, command and control, some artillery units, basically it seems, according to this official, that russia is pushing in capabilities that will allow them to ramp up and support large numbers of...

Mission is accomplished? >> yeah, so, on capabilities, barb, i touched this in the opening statement. again, when we are able to identify the units for you we'll do that. the reason i don't have specific units today is because the units are being notified as well as family members and i think you can understand we would not want to get ahead of the notification process. but broadly speaking, as i mentioned at the top, i mean, these would be additional brigade combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as transpor...