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>> let's go to barbara starr live at the pentagon. one of the reasons for success, the ukrainians say, this is ministry of defense video, these new higher tech u.s. weapons. hot is the state of play in terms of pentagon perspective in terms of how well the ukrainians are doing and what is next? >> the real question is what does happen next. there is a lot of caution here at the pentagon. about $14 billion in u.s. military assistance has already gone to ukraine, just on friday, more than $600 million of additional weapons announced. this is mainly armor, artillery, howitzers. critical ammunitio...

Vivid picture of the tragedy of what's happening in ukraine right now. >> it's true. i can't even name them all. bombs were falling around the area. it's just extraordinary and lester holt, of course. president zelenskyy is still calling on the west to close the skies. slamming the west as well. you know this so well. from a pentagon perspective. that is a suicide mission to fly fighter jets into russian s-400s that are going to be shooting them down and there are better ways to do it with stingers and other weapons we are providing. how do we get past this disconnect? >> well, first, i agree ...

Extensive and will haunt them both. >> i do, however, think that president xi is unsettled by what he has seen transpired in the last 15 days in ukraine. i don't think they had anticipated that the russian military was going to prove largely ineffective so far. i think they are worried about reputational damage and i think they are worried about the wider economic consequences. >> for now beijing has sided with putin. bret? >> bret: jennifer, where do things stand regarding the polish mig 29 ukraine from the pentagon perspective. >> the mig if they want. u.s. defense officials don't believe th...

With vladimir putin next move? >> we watch as closely as we can. there are limits to how much we can know about his daily decision making and how he's organized people around him. as the president said, there is a limit to what we can know about that, but we are watching as closely as we can. i can tell you from the pentagon perspective, we have tried on numerous occasions in recent days and weeks to reach out to our counterparts, the minister of defense, chairman of the joint chief equivalent in the russian military and we have been unsuccessful. they have not been willing to have a conversat...