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>> you basically have to be a tank or artillery or a aircraft right now to fight in the eastern front. >> reporter: so far, the u.s. has approved more than $3 billion in military assistance to ukraine, including thousands of javelin, stinger missiles, and other critical weapons, equipment that these former u.s. marines say they haven't seen. >> the stuff from these packages need to get to the front. >> reporter: so much so they are be teased about it. >> we have guys coming up to us, google translate, where are the h h howitzers? where is biden's help? where is the pentagon's help? >> reporter...

>> specifically nato munitions in terms of antitank weapons as well as artillery, like howitzers, tanks. even m-rap type vehicles. anything like that. it's nowhere in the front. >> they say they have fought near kyiv and in the east in the kharkiv region, where russian troops have strengthened their presence. >> so, they would push here, send troops, a massive column on the main road, push them here. >> this video filmed by them, shows the challenging terrain. >> it's just fields as far as the eye can see, with nothing but open ground and next to zero concealment. >> a battleground without the...

Devastating effect. and for the first time, h howitzers. a cnn military analyst joins us now, general, thank you for your time. we appreciate you being with us. for the first time, we're getting an estimate of the number of ukrainian fighters that have been killed, around 3,000. compare that to russian losses, nato puts it to 15,000 dead sold sold sol soldiers. does that say anything about what is winning or losing the war? >> good evening. i agree. the russians have suffered quite a few losses. not just in equipment, but obviously in personnel.

By the ukrainians against the russians. it is going to be a different battle scene. you know, these types of weapons that are being talked about such as the helicopters and the switchblade drones and the h howitzers, and can they keep russians away from the critical east and other central parts of the country. >> and it is interesting that the russians are complaining about the weapon, because are they working and it is going to be effective? >> oh, yes, they are scared of them, because they are going to be dangerous for the russian movements in the east. those troops are not prepared for a fo...

Harlow pop, pop, pop. the first ground engagement we've seen from the center of kharkiv but it is a city of a million and a half people, ring road around it with the ukrainian government forces today that they knocked out four tanks on that road. we don't have any independent confirmation of that but we've seen the missiles fired from bel belgorod. we've heard the concussive power landing here and on the heavy armor, the tanks and the 155 mobile. h howitzers up the border and all this, jim, coming at a time when