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Lack of reporting on a lot of those activities. one, what we now know openly, _ activities. one, what we now know openly, one — activities. one, what we now know openly, one of the absolutely key activities — openly, one of the absolutely key activities which enabled ukraine to defeat _ activities which enabled ukraine to defeat these thrusts down to kyiv from _ defeat these thrusts down to kyiv from the — defeat these thrusts down to kyiv from the north—west and north—east in the _ from the north—west and north—east in the first— from the north—west and north—east in the f...

Position right now in this war? >> a senior defense official cannot corroborate or confirm those same numbers, but he also said at the same time that the u.s. believes that russia has about 75% of its original combat capability available to it right now. what that means is go back to the original day of the invasion, the russians had somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 to 130 battalion tactical groups on the ground in ukraine when they began this invasion in those first days. they now have about 93. the numbers, it's hard to put an exact number or percentage on how many that is, overall the r...

Is beginning to hit those levels. and in fak, we're hearing historic alecos as you know of the land lease program which was the cornerstone of franklin roosevelt did for winston churchill. we're in that same mode here with our friends in ukraine. and i think the stakes are equally high. so, we can do this. let's also recall from those days, once you get the arsenal of democracy as it is been called, our ability to produce real combat capability, once you get it rolling, watch out. and so, a., we can do this, b., it is the right thing to do, and back to our dear mutual friend madeleine albright...

With our friends in ukraine. i think the stakes are equally high. so we can do this. let's also recall from those days, once you get the arsenal of democracy, as it's been called, our ability to produce real combat capability, once you get it rolling, watch out. and so, a, we can do this. b, it's the right thing to do. back to our dear mutual friend madeleine albright, one of the last conversations i had with her early in this year was talking about nato and the nato role in all of this. you know, madeleine strategically wrote the plan for nato in 2010. read it. it holds up pretty well. she sa...

Contested city. but the reality is at this point, garrett, they're acknowledging, senior defense officials saying that it's a very, very small pocket of ukrainian resistance that still exists in that city and there's not a lot of optimism that it will stand for that much longer. mariupol is an extremely strategic, important city to the russians taking. and the reality is there's going to be a lot of people watching what happens if and when it falls. there's somewhere in the neighborhood ever 10 or 12 russian battalion tactical groups, btgs, that are dedicated to that fight in mariupol. and the...