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And u.s. officials say that they don't have an exact count of how many americans are fighting in ukraine. ukrainian defense official told cnn in early march that at that time more than 20,000 people from more than 50 countries had expressed a desire to join the fight. cnn has interviewed some americans who volunteered. former tv analyst malcolm nance described fighting in a special ukrainian unit called the international legion. >> it is not just people running around grabbing rifles and going on the battlefield. it is a unified force that is a component of the ukrainian army key empl deployed...

Former-tv analyst, malcolm nance, described fighting in a special ukrainian unit called the international legion. >> it is not just people running around, grabbing rifles, and going on the battlefield. it is a unified force, that is a component of the ukrainian army that is fdeployed on the battle front. but another maeshor american fighting there, james vasquez, told cnn he was moving around loosely. >> right now, i am pretty much a ghost. me -- me and a british soldier -- him and i have been kind of going from unit to unit, you know, wherever we are needed the most. >> reporter: but u.s. o...

But a democratic leadership aide told me yesterday that they actually signaled that this is going to take a long time. they said in a statement that there will be by icameral talks and language must be drafted and it is also unresolved which chamber will work to advance the supplemental first. this will not be an instant process. so this will take a couple weeks and there is going to be a lot of back and forth between democrats and republicans. but there is a sign here that they will work together to try to pass a bipartisan bill on this because it is a priority for both parties to help ukrain...

Front. again, it's made up of people from all over the world. men and women. we have a lot of women that have come with experience from united states, france and italy and other places around the world. so, this force, again, is committed to defend the innocent people of ukraine against, you know, the war crimes and atrotties that they call a russian army. it's no army at all. it's just men out raping, murdering, pillaging and trying to stay alive. >> this, as you just mentioned, it's about combating democracy, to you, or about fighting for democracy. and saving it. not just about fighting rus...

Talked about says a lot about how sensitive the russian authorities are about the loss of this key warship in the country. they're also not talking about, you know, how many people on board were killed. we have seen some images of some of the sailors said to be from the ship being inspected by the admiral of the fleet, but we're not get negative indication how many sailors were lost. >> that's a huge question for those russian families that are going to be raising that as well. matthew chance, thank you for joining us. nice to see you in person. >> thank you. new u.s. intelligence suggests t...