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Continuing to reinforce those groups. separately, the ukrainians are building combat power. a lot of that u.s. military equipment, the m-777, switchblade drones, it's making its way to the eastern front at the donbas. i'd like to talk about the bigger picture and how we think this might end or what it could look like when it ends. this is two months ago, talking about what is putin's big plan? historically, this was russian area. they call it novorossiya. they want to control this. we hear the russians talk about this kherson area, one of the first areas the russians took. it secures the north...

An intelligence report they lost 30% of their combat power, that is a significant number. i will tell you in the american military, when you say 30% of combat power, you're getting pretty close to combat ineffective. now here's the deal. they have 12 battalions that were in mariupol. those battalions now can be freed up to help out in the donbas and they also have a number of battalions elsewhere as well. >> general, unfortunately i have run out of time but i really appreciate getting your insight and perspective. thank you very much for being with us. our coverage will continue with katy tur ...

Worry about in the coming weeks? >> first you're right to focus on british intelligence. they have consistently called this one right. the ukrainians naturally enough will inflate them, the u.s. tends to be very conservative in this regard. the brits have been in the middle and spot on. if russia has in fact rushed a third of their combat power, a third of the troops are killed and wounded to knock out of action. in four years of war, the most devastated u.s. units in the second world war were a u.s. navy disele submarines. russia lost 30% knocked out in under three months of war. so that is a...

Kharkiv. outside of artillery range right now, they are going to reposition most of these forces down in this area here. before they were looking to have two avenues of approach, down to that salient that exists down in the donbas region and eventually they have to get to where the fewer is, where the lines of communications are, all those things are in there. instead they will negate this complete access, focus all of their combat power right here. it will allow the ukraine military to do the same, adjust. they will reposition most of their forces down here. you will see a very big battle i t...

But if they plan to either destroy or push them out of their country, they're gonna need additional weapons. they're gonna need additional troops to be able to do that in my view. i go back to the power doctrine. you want to have combat power to be able to defeat directions, the russians. and u.s. army doctrine, we try to help break this, and that means five, in terms of -- five over the one, in terms of racial, and right now, they do not have that ratio. they have it in terms of troops, but as you know, the russians have some significant technology. and the iranians do not have that technolog...