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International stage? i don't think this will affect vladimir - international stage? i don't think this will affect vladimir putin's i this will affect vladimir putin's image within russia, russians more or less still support the kremlin. i don't think this will have any effect on that. it will be embarrassing for the kremlin internationally because this shouldn't happen, russian air defences, especially at a time of war, 18 months into a war, should now be watertight. they shouldn't have ukrainian drones, if it was one, reaching this close to the very heart of russian power.— earlier i spoke...

That's why he's giving the cluster munitions, but it's controversial. what's the controversy behind it, kelly, and how do they plan on deploying these once they get them? >> reporter: yeah, so the controversy has to do with how these weapons work. the cluster munitions break apart once they're fired. you have these bomblets falling across the battle space. there's what's called a dud rate. a certain percentage of them don't actually explode. they remain on the battlefield sometimes for months, years to come, and are a huge danger to civilians and actually troops moving forward because of that....

Than the kremlin? >>, i have to think that the kremlin and the russian district defense had some indication of what was going on this was in a crowded battle space, there's a lot of intelligence happening. i'm sure that the ukrainian intelligence services had some idea of what was happening. as congressman gallego said this has been building for a while i think the u.s. intelligence committee in addition to congressman guy was good point that they don't want to be seen to be like playing in a russian area that the west is still behind some, uprising some rebellion we still don't know exactly w...

Of what's going on, on the ground the lay of the land of the battle space looks like you start understanding where ukraine has their forces, russia could realize we fought this but it's actually this. they could start repositioning forces. come up with different strategies. they might know but the fact this is leaked out there they have a map. but they also give mrs. our assessment of their status. our assessment where their armor is, or the aircraft is at. i really put ukraine at a significant disadvantage for you always on the element of surprise for you to create diversions and use deceptio...

For f-16s and other things as well, and the most important things are the tanks, the bradley fighting vehicles to be more mobile in the ability toat ammunition, and you mentioned the cruise missiles and having the air defense systems and the ammo to keep firing back to hit the cruise missiles, and so he is asking for a lot. the f-16s, and we should give ukraine whatever we should give them, but the point of the f-16s, they are not particularly effective in the current battle space. the russians have a large number of fighter attack aircraft. they have been completely useless in the fight preci...