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Forces in that part of syria that has worked. that is as far as i can go on that. let me go to the phones here. i haven't gotten to anybody. "new york times." >> today at the emergency special session of the united nations general assembly, u.s. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield said that vacuum bombs are banned. and also i assume she meant fuel air explosives or other forms of thermobaric weapons. so what is the status on the review of the policy and can you say whether the pentagon believes that cluster munitions and thermobarics are banned. >> i don't have any updates for you on the policy...

Watch by going online to foxnation.com to begin a free trial. all right, big concerns over the types of bombs russia may be dropping in ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon. what can you tell us at this hour, jennifer? >> sandra, we talked to a senior u.s. official who did confirm they had seen evidence of thermobaric weapons, they have not seen they have been used, but they are known as vacuum bombs. more devastating and conventional explosives and they have a terrible impact on anyone caught in the blast radius. it consists of a fuel container...

What we are going to see is that escalation in fighting, and in the intensity of -- of the fighting and the brutality of the use of long-rangef firepowe directly against kyiv before the russians attempt to seize kyiv, itself. >> in -- in a traditional-military sense, we -- we know, as you point out, what putin is capable of from what happened in chechnya and in syria. you know, do -- do you think that there is about to be a potentially ferocious escalation in kyiv? i am talking about mechanized units moving into an urban warfare situation and -- and -- and what could that look like? i was in f...

Ukraine? separately, have you assessed the russians used thermobaric weapons? >> no. what i'm talking about is the proposal of the mig-29s. sovereign nations are deciding to make decisions about security assistance to ukraine and they have that right to do that and not our place to speak for them. we felt it was important with a transfer of u.s. custody that we believed it was important to lay flat the concerns about that and that's what we have done here. david? >> on the order to deploy patriots into poland, defense officials said this morning that secretary austin ordered that. i thought th...

Thermobaric weapons, sometimes called vacuum bombs, use powdered metal to create a rapidly expanding fireball. Under international law, they must only be used against military targets, not civilians.