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Together, and it was responsible for about 12% of ukraine's steel shipments back just before the invasion. so this is a big, big prize for them. but from a combat perspective, this is one of the toughest environments they can go into. it's no wonder they want to surround it and in essence stafb it out. >> i'm interested in hearing about -- we learned today that new drone that the air force developed for ukraine, it's called the phoenix ghost drone. the pentagon says it provides similar capabilities to switchblade drones, they won't give away exactly what it can do. but what do you know about i...

White house today, he said he would speak softly and carry a large javelin. the u.s. has provided about 40,000 of the anti-tank weapons what is new is the amount of artillery being sent. unthinkable a few weeks ago. the u.s. has provided $3.4 billion in lethal aid since the invasion began. half in the past two weeks alone. here's what is in this latest package. >> dozens of howitzers and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to go with them. we sent thousands of anti-armor and drones, rifles, radar systems. more than 50 million rounds of ammunition has been sent. >> and capabilities include 72 howitzer...

Defending on their home terrain, they can move those pieces a little bit quicker, and they still have guerrilla tactics like they can employ. those are the things like the switchblade drones, that will be used to go in and sort of strike these artillery pieces. things like the toes and the javelins and stingers. so, the advantage still lies with the ukraine. a point out, as you did, chris, the russians are having a terrible time in this war. they've had their senior military leaders on the ground decapitated, so general, after general, after general has been killed. this is not a good prospect...

Support grows as we see their abilities grow. and would you expect that to continue? if they actually can push them back out of the donbas, does thur policy change? well we can't evict them. >> i think it already has changed, chuck. because if you look at the kind of assistance we were providing a few weeks ago, it was to guard against the blitzkrieg. it was anti-tank weapons and surface to air weapons and now we're arming them for open land and tank warfare. we're providing them with howitzers and a lot of switchblade drones and tons of ammo and so we've already evolved the types of assistanc...

Ukrainian military, for the first time ever the u.s. is sending heavy artillery to ukraine, -- 40,000 artillery rounds which at the current price would be a week's worth of artillery for the ukrainian military. if you have never seen a -- before it is a big modern cannon. the u.s. also says they are about to start training ukrainians on how to use these new -- which is important. and addition to the artillery, the u.s. is sending 11 new helicopters, 300 drones that are called switchblade drones. 208 pcs, armored personnel carriers. ten artillery radars. these latest shipments from the u.s. are...