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It help if the ukrainian air force, if the ukrainian pilot such as yourself had access to more aircraft, would you be able to take the fight to the russians and perhaps prevent some of what we've seen in some of these areas. take back some of these russian-controlled parts of ukraine. >> oh, yeah, definitely, my obtaining more air to ground defense and fighters, we'll be able to keep their bomber jets away from their territory and we will create better ground for our ground forces for them to advance and take back control of those cities. and we are really looking forward to that. >> it's been...

Rupgs russians out of their country. >> we have new reporting about the u.s. providing more weapons, more tanks, i believe. do you think that that is, that we'll see more of that, i guess, in the coming weeks? >> yes, we need to see more of that, and i'm very glad to see it. there was the announcement friday of $300 million that did not include heavy weapons, but did include some more track drones. now this announcement of tanks, artillery. that's something that is essential at this stage. and i hope that other flanato allies join the u.s. in doing this. and it's god tt to be a steady flow. we...

From russian forces, pope francis now says he is considering a trip to kyiv. if he made the trip, the 85-year-old pontiff would be the most high-profile world leader to visit the war-torn country since russia's invasion more than a month ago. here with me now is vatican correspondent for the national catholic reporter, christopher wright. christopher, so nice to have you this morning. ukrainian president -- great to have you. ukrainian president zelenskyy and kyiv's mayor have both now invited the pope to visit the capital. how likely is it that he makes this trip? >> the pope told us reporter...

Like to see more of the horrors of their occupation of these cities and towns. how difficult will it be to get an accurate and detailed accounting of any possible war crimes, russia may have committed in this invasion. >> well, people right now, ukrainians and those from nato, the west, nato countries, are keeping track of all of this. so the records are being made, there'll be documentation done, but there will be no bringing people to justice for war crimes for year. this is something that is painstakingly done and goes through the international courts and will take a long time. most importa...

And remember, part of this war is putin's vision of restoring the russian empire. so odesa was a partially russian-speaking city, part of the former empire of russia, part of the soviet union. so it's a target in thatceps. from a military perspective, it seals off the black seacoast, so that russia controls all of ukraine's southern coast, from donbas, mariupol, crimea, odesa, and all the way across to romania. so that is important for them to cut off ukraine that way. >> mr. ambassador, throughout this last month, we've seen the information war, really crucial here. we have ukrainians on the ...