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Forces in these fights, these tactical engagements. there's very little they can do to reach deeply to try to conduct what's called counterfire against these artillery and rocket barrages, which are happening right now. ukrainians have the ability to strike deep, and that's how you shake the engagement. you can win tactically in front of you, but you must shape and you must start to atritt what the enemy can bring forward to reinforce that next echelon. ukrainians know how to do this, they just have to get about the business of doing that. up next, more on our other breaking news this evenin...

Second. in the meantime, i want to bring in retired colonel hertling. your reaction on what fred is reporting? >> what fred is describing, john, is a multiple launch rocket system. the name for it is smirch. it has a range of about 55 miles. he is with them outside the range of counterfire we talked about earlier. a normal artillery piece can fire at most 30 kilometers, or between 19 miles or so. so what you are seeing is a. they are going to be big explosions on the other side. you can tell what is happening. they're going out in series of 12s. they will get a big area, not a

More substantial. i think that we need to continue to increase the delivery of things like javelin, counterfire radar and so on. this should look like the berlin airlift. >> yeah, especially since we have been hearing for weeks now from this administration that their approach would be different, following the invasion and annexation in 2014, that they learned a lot of lessons since then and have done many counter tabletop exercises to plan for any scenario and we're waiting to hear for firmer sanctions out of the administration. what is your take about the continued russian troop presence in b...

The heck out of there because you know there's incoming back toward you. the incoming army may be doing a good job of counterfire. i hope that's the case and that is what sam may be seeing. . >> general, stand by. sam, you as well. stand by. stay safe. keep us posted as you see and hear more things. >> let's go now to the state department with cnn's kylie atwood. what is the latest from state officials, kylie? >> reporter: we are learning there are no more u.s. diplomats on the ground in ukraine. you'll remember there were only a small number of diplomats that remained in the country at all af...

It would factor in the russian's equations to attack. that's over now. they're at word. you will see really good actions by ukraine's army not just until using stinger missiles that have been provided for them or javelin missiles, but they have a good artillery set. the artillery school for the old ussr used to be in kharkiv. they also have -- they have been provided counterfire radar. what i mean by that is they can detect income coming rounds with a radar system and then immediately fireback on that location where the round came from. if it's within range, they can shoot back very quickly. w...