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they would be surrounded and captured, though they're leaving behind a trail of destruction. >> cnn's sam kiley is live in kharkiv, ukraine, with an exclusive look at what remains there now. he's the first international correspondent inside izyum since the liberation of that city. sam, tell us what you're seeing. >> well, brianna, it has been an extraordinary campaign by the ukrainians, opening with a counteroffensive in the south, possibly drawing off russian troops there, and now president zelenskyy saying they've captured 6,000 square kilometers. military forces saying they've lib...

Now. except for, i had a couple more pieces of context here. the reason the ethics 16 is not crucial right now is, for two reasons, number one, in order to have an operational at 16 in ukraine, you don't only have to train the pilots, there's an incredibly long logistics tale that has to go with it. you have to have mechanics, you have to have spare parts, and you have to have airfields set up to accommodate an f 16. all of that would cost enormous amount of money. even if right now today, we decide nothing more important than getting the at 16 to ukraine, it would take months as there are mor...

Right now. >> general, do you agree with the assessment of the logistical problems the russians will face? >> completely. it takes a lot of tonnage to bring up shells and fuel, and now the russians have a logistics tale. they have to defend the roads. there will be -- there will be stay-behind ukrainian forces bypassed in the russian thrust. they will come out and make it hard to supply. russians have a term "correlation of forces." yes, they have enough forces to do a quick strike in good-sized numbers, they don't have the numbers for a major urban fight and all the other things. this is just...