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Like to ask you big picture questions first about the state of the war and instruct me on my most recent trip there that there is sort of a static kind of quality that characterizes the battle in the east now, those blinds aren't moving significantly in either direction, lots of fire going back and forth. do you see that as something that will last some time now or see the ukrainians able to push back, russians able to push through? >> still a logistics battle, reconstitution battle, and an effort to obtain superiority bit russians, sufficient to make the breakthrough cut off the ukrainian for...

Whoever wins this logistics battle between the russians and the ukrainiansba are going o win this war. the ukrainians needdky more weapons. you know, when i came outiv ofh kyiv with a group evacuees, we got stopped at no less than probably 40 checkpoints s on the way out. and you seeee the men and women manning these checkpoints and you see that theymo absolutely need more and more weapons to fight every singlere one of these checkpoing at some point are going to haveo to fight the russians and they're there ready to do so. they're digging in . they're hardening these sites. and soso i see tha...

Whoever wins this logistics battle between the russians and ukrainians are going to win this war. the ukrainians deeper weapons. when i came out of kyiv with a group of evacuees, we got stopped no less than probably 40 checkpoints on the way out and you see the men and women manning these checkpoints, you see that they absolutely need more and more weapons to fight. every single one of these checkpoints at some point are going to have to fight the russians and they are ready to do so. they are digging in, they are hardening sites, and so i see there are deftly going to be adjustable challenges...

Ukrainian president zelenskyy -- he is pushing moscow for a meeting. putin at this stage reportedly unwilling to hold talks at that level. do you see any diplomatic options that are seriously on the table right now? or will this brutal war continue? >> i -- i suspect it will, wolf. i don't see any options really right now. we must be negotiating from the position of strength. and in order to do that, i think i agree with secretary panetta saying we got to take attack to the russians. they have got to continue to maintain their will to fight. they've got to prevent the encirclement of kyiv like...

Of the forces. but really the thing is, anderson, right now we're in a logistics battle. the ukrainians had inferior combat capability to begin with. we gave them from our own stocks some key defensive systems, the javelins and the stingers, and they've been highly effective. but in the coming phases of the battle, that's not going to be enough. they're going to need heavy artillery. they're going to need the ammunition for it. they're going to need armored fighting vehicles and some tanks so that they can compete on a more equal basis with the russian forces that are going to be coming in the...