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The soviet—era s300. with a major russian offensive looming, this is one of several new moves to supply ukraine with the kind of equipment it says it badly needs. in downing street, with germany's new chancellor by his side, borisjohnson said britain was also doing more. today i can announce that the uk will send a further £100 million worth of high—grade military equipment to ukraine's armed forces, including more starstreak anti—aircraft missiles, which fly at three times the speed of sound, another 800 anti—tank missiles and precision munitions capable of lingering in the sky until...

Difficulties keeping their forces that are arrayed against the russians that are height here. >> so what kind of equipment do the ukrainians need to make sure they hold on to these two critical cities? >> so there are several types of equipment, don, they could use. there are of course pieces of equipment they already use. these include the biraktar tb-2 drones which have been very effective at actually going after tank columns and also providing reconnaissance information to the ukrainians. more standard stuff, t-72 tanks, that allows them to actually fight force on force with the russians. s...

Targets very, very quickly and very accurately. then there's german equipment. this is a punserfaus which goes after tanks. they use this now. if they get more of them they can be even more effective against the russian tanks. and that is the kind of thing that would make a difference along of course with the u.s.-made javelin missile. >> colonel, the secretary of state, anthony blinken, said today that for every russian tank in ukraine the u.s. and its partners has given or will soon provide ten anti-tank systems. hoas that been to ukraine's success so far? >> here's the answer. these are the...

Going on for eight years in the southeast in donbas, in ukraine since 2014. do you get the sense now, dan, that both sides are getting ready for what would be considered trench warfare in 2022? >> so first of all to general milley's comments. he is right because commensurate with the biden's administration strategy of sanctions, employing resources and sending military equipment to ukraine. under that current strategy if ukraine continues to fight the war will last for many years. is that what we really want? do we want russia to pummel ukraine? how many for cities do we want to look like buch...

Maintain their vehicles is that these vehicles require a lot of maintenance. they require a lot of fuel. and the russian logistical capabilities aren't up to speed. at least they weren't up to speed when it comes to kyiv. whether they'll be up to speed when it comes to places like kharkiv, that may be another story. but they need a lot of work on logistics if they're going to make these things work on the battlefield. >> colonel, you have drones, you have stinger missiles, javelins all helped defend kyiv. but is that enough to take the fight to russia in the east and south? and if not what wea...