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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has failed so far, with enormous losses to Russia in terms of combat personnel, military equipment and the reputations for quality/reliability/effectiveness of Russian weapons and forces Even the Ukrainians
They fought without the new weapons and things that we are now sending in to ukraine, and they've held out for a long time, and tactically, what that means is they have tied up russian forces, battalion task groups around mariupol that were not able to go to the rest of the fight. sadly now as mariupol falls, those forces will be able to join the rest of the fight in the region. >> now, we have ambassador volker with us. i want to ask you about the other moves parts we have today. the leaders of finland and sweden met on the heels of applying to nato, and yet, turkey is doubling down today say...
That will result in getting this sorted out before the june nato summit. >> general, coming back to what's happening on the battlefield. the pentagon says the russians are attacking in smaller units. and the uk says russia is purging some of the senior commanders. what's the significance of this? >> well, the smaller units i think is just a function of how many personnel the russians have lost in the war. former battalion task groups that were at a level much higher when they entered the battle, have lost a lot of man power and russia's having problems replacing it. so the smaller units is jus...
You can knock out those bridges, you can trap a lot of battalion task groups that have gotten across the river, and the ukr ukrainians are probably taking them out now. if you look at the terrain, the meandering nature of the river, and how it's very very difficult to get through. i mean, you cross one part of the river and you might have to cross another part of the river. this is very difficult terrain. crossing this river has been very very important. the russians have been spending about seven weeks now trying to get across this because of course they want to get down to where sam is, kram...
Miles from kramatorsk and the reason that they are being successful is once again, logistics. they have secure supply lines here from russia. they have friendly troops. they already occupied that area. the supply lines are not subject to interdiction. what they are able to do is bring up massive amounts of artillery. the artillery that they have up there, probably about eight to ten battalion task groups up there are firing massive amounts of artillery, and just trying to blow the smithereens out of everything in front of them. they continue to leverage their logistics to get a little bit of s...