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If you remember almost eight months ago when the war started, the real request was for javelin missiles. they needed to get the armored vehicles stopped. will s. then it was about stingers. more short-range air defense. as putin decided in the spring that he would focus on the donbas. it is a lot like kansas. small villages and towns. we knew it would be long range fires, the ability to hit on the ground. so we provided dozens and dozens of howitzers as well as literally tens of thousands pieces of ammunition for them as well as the vaned rocket systems that are highly visible. that's what tha...

To ukraine. >> well, the nature of the fight in ukraine is changing. the russian forces previously were widely dispersed. they could be picked off by ukrainians and ambushed, as many of them were. now the russians are concentrating their forces in the east. a lot of the fighting is at long range, using long-range artillery. so it is changing the nature of what we provide in terms of weapons. we're giving them long-range weapons like how itzers. and we want to make sure that we provide them with the intelligence that they need, both to defend themselves against russian artillery attacks, but al...

The other. they're providing ukraine with the weapons. it's a terrible thing to say. the longer ukraine fights the more ukrainian lives will be lost. the world has to keep providing weapons, better, stronger weapons. different type of weapons as the nature of the war changes. what was necessary a few weeks ago, now things are different. now we're in a long range artillery war. at the same time they have to act on other frochnts. they have to put pressure on putin to stop the fighting and keep putting pressure on the

Been adjusting what we provide to the ukrainians needs as this war changes. and we will continue to do that. >> that brings me tony next que question, the new package that cnn is hearing about. when do you think the new package will be announced? >> we'll obviously wait for the announcement. i think that is most important is we are listening to the ukrainians as this war changes. russia as you know is now planning to mass its forces from the east, and come in heavy that way, which changes what they need, they need our heavy a arti artillery, long range rocket systems, they need anti-ship missi...

They are showing that they will go after power. i will be surprised if they don't turn the power off, the power being generated from the city, if you will the nuclear power plant. in typically the russians do appear to be changing tactics and shifting to an all-out war, if you will. there is more bombing of civilian areas as mr. putin said this morning in his phone call, things will get worse unless the ukrainian surrender. >> trace: and that ties right back into the heart of your expertise, matthew. there is the fact that vladimir putin has mentioned a couple of times that nuclear weapons are...