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A senior defense official telling us that since the invasion began, russia has fired at least 1,000 missiles on ukraine. [sobbing] >> some lawmakers believe the worst is yet to come. >> congress has been pushing to provide more weaponry. and i think it's important to understand that we will have to continue to do it. i think the white house has been a little bit behind on these. more importantly this is evolving conflict. russian tactics are now changing. >> russian troops continue to face strong resistance from ukrainian forces and are now considering resupplying their military inventory. thi...

Tactical unmanned aerial systems are actually something called switchblade drones, similar to the ones that you would see here. they are portable, low cost, single use weapons, that can strike enemy targets from miles away, and fly much faster than the turkish drones that ukraine has been using to date. these u.s. switchblade drones are also small enough that they cannot be detected by most air defense systems. now, these weapons are coming at a crucial time for ukrainian troops, who, today, according to ukrainian officials, began launching counter attacks against russian forces outside of kyi...

The cofounder and chairman of the security think tank, this centered fence strategy. thank you again for being with us. i want to ask you about the fact that you and members of your current government continue to ask for greater air support, no-fly zone's and airplanes. while, there's not much movement on that, it does seem that the constant requests do get some response, in the case of the switchblade drones, or the $800 million in new assistance that was announced today. tell me how far these incremental things go in helping ukraine in its fight against russia? >> well, of course, any help, ...

$800 million in military aid to ukraine and that includes things like switchblade drones. do you see things like that making much of a difference? >> the ukrainian forces are already doing pretty well at bottling up the movement of russian columns and other kind of vehicle movements. this will be one more capability. the problem is they can't push russian forces off their territory and can't prevent them from various kinds of bombardment. so i don't see the $800 million as changing those realities and i think we're reinforcing the probability of a prolonged fight, which has its own advantages ...

Haggling over war crimes because that's clearly what the russians have resorted to. and the reason for it, of course is the fact they essentially failed in a conventional, tactical attack, so they're resorting to what they can do which is wanton destruction and the killing of innocent civilians. and i think that's a testament to the failure of their initially planned campaign. >> and i'm moving through some of these photos. this is more of volnovakha. the gathering place and buildings here just simply destroyed. this is a picture saturday in chernihiv. the bombs, the flames coming up from the ...