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Long as ukraine can keep these jaws from clamping shut here, then they have the chance to go on the counter offensive, clear the russians out here and start thinking strategically about maybe attacking russian bases in crimea. >> john: part of the problem, though, with that, ukraine is apparently beginning to run out of some weapons that have been so effective like the turkish drones. >> right, the drones, but we have also given them drones to help augment that. switch blade, phantom ghosts, and others from european partners, they really proved that at the bridge. >> john: huge miscalculation ...

We were funding ukraine for an insurgency, right? we were sending them stingers and javelins, protecting them if this was a two or three-year war of insurgency. now we see they have a chance to win and we're finally sending over that which they need, the heavy armor, the anti-drones, the drones, the ammunition that we need. i think we're catching up there. it took us a while. now it's our job to make sure they continue to get these resources and the supplies get where they need to get as soon as possible. >> let's see if that rare area of bipartisanship on capitol hill, which is ukraine fundin...

Anti-air capabilities, whether that's aircraft or whether it's antiaircraft missiles that fire from the ground to a higher altitude. what i hear from this friend of mine in the ukrainian military is that the ground forces are doing very well. they are vulnerable, however, he says, to air strikes. the ukrainian air force is still in the air. it's mostly in the air in the west. the air -- the russian air is able to operate in the east. and that's where they really need the antiaircraft weapons. >> also drones. that seems to be a big emphasis for them. >> it is. and the larger drones that can car...

Talking about. moving quickly around the battlefield. wheeled vehicles more than likely because they want to move fast and a quick reaction force to counter any kind of russian incursion along that 300-mile front line. the tactical unmanned uas systems, the drones, as they were, those will give intelligence plus firepower. whenever you see a breakthrough, which is what the russians are going to attempt in the donbas in multiple places. they are conducting what's called a reconnaissance in force right now to try and find holes in the ukrainian lines. if the russians were to find that and so far...

Combat. they were part of the in addition alongside nato troops to afghanistan. these are highly professional militaries. they can muster hundreds of thousands of combat trained troops. their defense budget combined, the two nations, is about a fourth the size of the russian defense budget, so i would gladly welcome them to nato. i think it's a good signal to send to putin. >> okay. one more question about that, which the u.s. is sending right now, which is 800 million bucks in military aid to ukraine. it's a long list of weapons. there's the drones, defense systems, and the like. but what pro...