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Arms depots, bridges, they've been super successful. at the worst of the war in seven months, 200 ukrainian soldiers were dying every day, another has been massively reduced and a lot of it has to do with these long—range rockets, the himars systems, so the us committed to sending formal today. it's not much but will help. the more, the better, is the bottom line.— help. the more, the better, is the bottom line. the mall, the better, the bottom line. the mall, the better. but _ the bottom line. the mall, the better, but they _ the bottom line. the mall, the better, but they can't - the bot...

Very precisely at 50-plus miles that each carries a 200-pound warhead to hit a target. or you can fire one atacm that goes about 150 miles or one target. the difference between the two missiles, one, it carries 200 pounds of explosive, the atacm carries 500 pounds of explosives. what ukraine is in now, alisyn, a close fight. they're fighting the enemy from 10 to 50 miles out. so the determination has been made by the department of defense that's what they need right now, if they're going to shift the himars launchers to start firing at atacms, they don't get as much bang for the buck. i know t...

More, katie bo, tell us more. >> yeah, this offer that alex marquardt is reporting is just the latest by ukraine to try to convince the united states to give them the attack 'ems, the longer range missiles that the u.s. has been providing ukraine for about four months now. now, ukraine wants the longer range system to strike deeper into russian-occupied areas of ukraine to strike things like logistics lines to strike things like ammo depots even the launching point of these iranian drones that russia has been able to use so effectively against ukraine. now, the biden administration has been re...

Actions there are literally dozens if not hundred us of reactions or co-actions to take in response to that. >> what about that offer from ukraine that they would share their target list with the u.s., if that would nullify the u.s. in terms of offering up longer range missiles -- is that a good plan? >> well, one of the things, it's interesting because there's a hue and cry for himars. i'd like to just clarify a couple things, himars are the trucks that the missiles are launched from. they can either launch rockets, like the guided munitions. there are six of them on every pod on the back of ...

Systems. we're not going to use them to strike russian territory directly. and ukrainian officials rightly point out in some cases the himars systems do have the range necessary to strike inside russia and they're not doing it. this is just the latest efforts by the ukrainians to try to convince the u.s. to give them the weapons. >> also cnn has learned that the biden administration has received demands in case the russians increase the war on ukraine further what would the u.s. do? >> look, the u.s. both publicly and privately sending communications to russia warning there would be consequenc...