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Then it has to go from dnipro to kharkiv, to kramatorsk, to donetsk. and respectively, it's about 200 to 250 miles to each one of those cities after they get the supplies to dnipro. and we're talking about literally tons of ammunition, large pieces of military equipment, a requirement to, say, how do we get the right things to the right place? because, truthfully, ukraine is going to be fighting on three different fronts. the northeast, the southeast, and the south. the ukrainian army is going to face a lot of challenges. they're going to start conducting large-scale conventional combined arms...

Indeed a blanket in austin, there's going to take a lot of weapons to guilt the snow offensive. joey. >> yes it got some questions for you but i'm going to start first the question i have is, what is the pentagon press secretary kirby, of washes and it keeps going back to the reasons we didn't send all this at once as the needed changing. can we confirm is the need now to only defend the parts of ukraine but russia has pulled back? or is the need to go after the russian forces in places like odesa, mariupol to take those 40 towns back to take those big quarters back? >> that is an outstanding ...

Opposing ground forces and especially against armor. so when these weapons are fired, their targeting is based on intelligence inputs and radar inputs. this also goes for the things like the s-600s. all of these things can be put together in a way that gives you a common operational picture. that's a fancy way of saying using all the weapon systems that you have and all the sensors tough give the commander exactly what he or she needs to see on the battle space. so they get a picture like this, that's what the ukrainians need in order to get a real time view of the battle space. when that happ...

Artillery takes a lot of effort to move and it's got to move all the way across the country it comes from lviv and the west you put your finger on something, jackie that is is it getting there fast enough? i just reported the ukrainian officials thing today some 42 towns in eastern donbas have fallen and that will be for ukrainian forces to try to take that area back. it is important to note to this battle space is different than the first phase we saw on the attack that failed here in kyiv the eastern orsoyla gaal has been fighting this rush is quite familiar with this fight. >> griff, leo ch...

Encirclements, essentially probing out on these lines, doing some reconnaissance in these areas. they will try to envelope small pockets of the ukrainian military, essentially surround them, contain them and cut them off. the key one is izyum. kramatorsk is the area where we saw at least a missile strike on a train station killing a lot of civilians. it is down about here. the russians would like to advance here. this is the battle space where everything is concentrated now. >> again, siege warfare, the art of war talks about it being basically the lowest form, it takes up so many troops. clin...