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I'm here, purely on humanitarian mission. you know, done the kicking in doors but when we talked about it you know the group that we have actually very, if you look at our combat experience, we have a lot of combat experience. we spent most of us over a decade in the middle east whether iraq, pakistan, afghanistan. what kind of an impact can we have? you know i've done picking up of a weapon but i feel at this point in my life i can make a bigger impact working on the humanitarian side. i've got those logistical skills i want to put to use. rachel: wow, this is incredible. thank you so much fo...

Fighter pilots this morning. they go by their call signs moon fish and juice. back with lviv, ukraine. it's amazing how much they've been able to accomplish with what they've been trained. >> reporter: it is remarkable. they go by call signs with us to protect their identities and you'll also notice they're wearing their full gear because we didn't want people to see their faces. these are pilots that speak great english because they train in the united states alongside american pilots and in some cases, they have more combat experience than most u.s. pilots. why? because they've been fighting...

Some are being told by the military, some remain in this military unit. they can't go to the war. >> reporter: one additional concern, the risks of deploying and arming thousands of foreign fighters around the country. >> they might be dangerous because such people are always dangerous, but we try to check them. we try to check everybody over. we try to check their past. >> reporter: one definite and urgent need for the ukrainian military are volunteers with combat experience. >> you enrolled after 9/11 imagining supposing the war would be there. did you ever imagine yourself witnessing a war ...

Every time we bring a recruit to the military, we expect them to conform to military culture, culture formed over two centuries of combat experience. we never expect our culture has to change to ark comidate the individual. that is military service. >> todd: i understand that is your main point, cohesiveness argument. i will push back slightly. do you feel the military is under prepared because of focus on what i will call a distraction? >> i continuing is distraction, if i send two million people to training, four or six million manhours, can we just teach grit again, fighting ethos, instead ...

>> and what we're hearing now from lviv is possibly two missile strikes and five people injured. you know better than i, the fog of war from your combat experience, but this is at least the initial reporting. we're also seeing -- reporting from tasks, the official mouthpiece, of course, for the kremlin, saying that biden's -- president biden's new comments, clearly that was calling vladimir putin a butcher today further narrows possibilities for mending relations. that's from tass. colonel vindman, jacob soboroff from nbc news has gotten a little bit closer to those strikes in lviv. let me bri...