the world, the most economy ofac the world. are wea acting like a nation that s getting ready that couldi possibly have a war with china but the years? i mean, that s a real thing.e rl and tens, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of americans, both combat forces could die. ts and my question is why isn t everybody, democrats and republicans acting like that s a real possibility instead of say hi fighting over sendingng 40 billion dollar to ukraine? as you know, i m in favor of supporting the ukrainians, but we re on the verge of a superpower war . are we acting like it? i don t think so. i i just talked to someone who is active duty yesterday who said, you know, every meeting he has with the commanding officer is e about politics and dti and you know, wildlyei politicized is anybody who s in favor of prosecuting these brand new wars like thinking about the readiness of the united states military? look, there are a lot of greatop people in the military who arebo about this ,ut the p
vladimir putin. the ukraine effort to push back the russians got a huge boost this week, when president biden signed the new 40 billion dollar military humanitarian aid package. it comes as russia continues its assault on eastern ukraine and claimed victory in that long battle for control of a steel plant in mariupol. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says the extra assistance is needed more than ever. but is it enough? joining me now, former congresswoman jane hartman who served on the house armed services intelligence and homeland security committees. she s also the author of insanity defense, such a pleasure to welcome my old friend to the sunday show. so this war has already gone on for nearly four months. and we re looking at new assistance coming into play now. how is this going to play out? how do you see this money
and then things are going to get worse before they get any better. okay, aj, with regard to the differences in opinions within the european union. what is the likelihood that the ignited states can put some pressure on the need for solidarity on that front. to support ukraine. i mean, one would think that given all the efforts that we ve seen by leadership, diplomatic leadership here in the united states and also our own leaders congressional leaders coming over there. showing their support for vladimir zelenskyy. there were sending a pretty strong message right there. our, do you get the sense that european leaders are listening? yeah, i think, let s just break it down to the basic level. what we ve seen is the 40 billion dollar aid package signed. we ve seen weapons being shipped here. we know that the embassy s been reopened here in kyiv. that sends a very direct message to the other leaders in europe, and i think over the next week or so, you ll see more pressure behind the sce
russia will have enough capable forces and equipment to fully occupy and hold some of the newly captured territory, of it is going to end up with a similar situations to kharkiv and kyiv. and just be forced out. ukraine s military intelligence chief says that ukraine will fight until all russian invaders and occupiers are forced out, including in crimea and the donbas. that official also tells sky news that the breaking point for the russian army will be the second part of august. listen carefully to this part. quote, it will eventually lead to the change of leadership of the russian federation, and quote. that breaking point timeline seems to line up with when biden administration officials believe that a 40 billion dollar military humanitarian and economic aid package that biden signed on saturday, while he was in south korea, will last. until they say it will get ukraine through september. the russian losses are real. they have real consequences on and off the battlefield.
ukrainian lines, at least eight people killed, another 21 people wounded in attacks up and down those lines today. that is where we have seen some of the fiercest fighting. that is where we are seeing the long-range artillery pieces that the americans are provided. tomorrow, when president zelenskyy speaks to 40, nations he is looking for more of those long range rockets to try to keep the russians back on that front. reverent. cal, the u.s. president joe biden signed a 40 billion dollar aid package for ukraine today. during his visit to south korea. what is the significance of this new aid making its way to ukraine? well, for ukrainian officials, this is vital. they talk about the need for renewed army ammunition, renewed weaponry, on the eastern front of the country. we are now talking about more than 53 billion dollars of aid to ukraine since the war began. if you remove usa funding,