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The coming weeks. on one side you will have the russians trying to move in here from izyum. they're trying to build combat power in this location. separately from luhansk they're trying to move over. their goal essentially is to seal off different portions here and here, such that they trap pockets of the ukrainian military. if they can trap them, they will essentially cut them off from resupply, similar to what they're doing in mariupol. what i would note when you look at what is going on the ukrainians they are putting up a stiff fight inis yum. sloviansk will be a place to watch as the batt...

They still have a lot of combat power to use there. it's also, terrain they are comfortable with. they have been fighting over the donbas area for eight years. their commanders, troop, there's a familiarity with the cities and the towns and the terrain that they didn't necessarily have when they were trying to come at kyiv from the north. >> i know senior defense official has put the estimation around 80% to 85% in the past

Major lines of progress. now they have concentrated it and still have a lot of combat power to use this. it's also, as i said earlier, te rain they're comfortable with. they have been fighting over the donbas area for eight years, so their commanders, their troops, there's a familiarity with the cities and the towns and the terrain that they didn't necessarily have when they were trying to come at kyiv from the north and chernihiv from the north and so we would expect that they're going to try again through their own familiarity with the train and the mistakes they have made, they'll try to ov...

Getting it into ukraine using ground methods. that's as far as i'm going to go. we're confident that material continues to get into ukraine. once it gets into ukrainian hands, it's up to them to decide where it goes. what unit gets it, where it's stored. that's for them to decide, not the united states. we're not putting strings on this stuff and saying they have to use it by a certain date. our job, get sbit into the regi. get it into ukraine. that's a very big question. i'll do the best i can. we still assess in general they have the vast majority of their assembled combat power available to...

Battle on the plains of ukraine. we've seen russia having failed in plan a to do a blitzkrieg across the country, they've fallen back to plan b, which is consolidate the forces, improve their thus far terrible logistics, and use that enhanced combat power to go at the heart of the ukrainian army in central ukraine. the weapons systems we are giving them are lethal, but they are not the kind of systems that would permit an invasion of russia. this is the right set of weapons to put in the hands of the right set of fighters, the ukrainians. i think they will be able to blunt a russian offensive....