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New military assistance to ukraine you get some of these smaller switchblade drones. they're kamikazes, hand-held, deployed from the battlefield and they can hit a tank or a convoy if they see a convoy. how effective can they be, though, when most of these devastating strikes we just went through are coming either from airplanes or from missiles fired from far, far away? >> well, i mean, i think you answered your own question there, john. they're not going to help unless they can be directed towards an artillery piece. so i mean, this is one piece of the pie. it's one bullet. i use the term th...

The word drags on, we will let you know what's going on throughout the morning here. >> so many of these attacks are unthinkable. standing in a. line, as part of a the military aid package, the u.s. is sendin switchblade drones which are ca reach targets miles away. >> the drones are just one piec of military equipment that the u.s. will be sending into ukraine, the president sending an aid package yesterday bringing the total spent just this week alone to more than $1 billion, the white house seeing this as an unprecedented amount of assistance but as griff mentioned, the u.s. not giving anyt...

Less risk. >> okay. let's talk about these switchblade drones. they're small, they're cheap. this is important. are there enough? >> no. in the initial package is 100. they're probably going to need at least ten times that. the tent of this capability is to be used in swarms. 100 won't be, but maybe three or four swarms. advantage of this is it is tube launched, from the ground, 120 pounds carried by a single person and it has got a range of 40 miles. and it can hover over a target for 20 minutes. so it is essentially a kamikaze drone, it sights its target, locks its target and flies itself in...

It's money going to fund programs like switchblade drones. it's a new weapon. they're very small and easy to carry. they're portable. they have a strong success rate of hitting tanks and more cost-effective. ukraine continues to see more help of a no fly zone. this is something that ukraine's president has demanded a long time now. u.s. officials say they're not ready to go that route. we heard that again today from the secretary of defense, lloyd austin. here's what he had to say. >> these attacks that we've seen most recently are -- appear to be focused directly on civilians. these actions a...

Presented to watch for people, at the hospitals. it's another thing to hear the stories of violence, and see the videos of violence. it's actually much worse in that, and this is something that ukrainian nationals will never forgive never forget for generations to come. >> for generations to come indeed, where we on zelenskyy is a member of the ukrainian parliament. but we say this evening, but some of the night for. you thank you for your time. >> well, president biden today announced a new package, as we are discussing, of lethal aid to ukraine, including, for the first time, armed switchbla...