to send a signal not to send the mig 29s. that would be in air fields where they would fly from the western part of ukraine. the u.s. is working to get more air defense systems on the ground. russia is flying an average of 200 air sortees per day but most of those are not in to ukrainian airspace where they could be shot down. here s what the dia told the senate intelligence committee. weapons like stingers have been moved in and used with effect. the ukrainians will continue to use those in small tactics with great effect. certainly additional assets and resources with uavs and aircraft i m sure they could make good use of that. about 50 of those uavs were provided by turkey in the two years prior to the invasion and they have been very, very effective, martha.
for us, live there in lviv. let s begin with eye on your null and ana recipient, jack jacobs. he s an msnbc analyst. also with us, general ben capri. he s also an msnbc national security commentator. evening to both of you. gentlemen, let s start with this. ali, reporting for us, last three nights, aerates going off. what does this tell us about potentially, with the russian forces are thinking in dealing with lviv, so far east? apparently the war has widened. the center of gravity is still the capital city of kyiv. people are still there. it will be the primary objective. the russians are hammering cities, all over the nation, with military objectives, like air fields, or simply terrorizing the civil populations. it s gonna get worse. we re gonna see, in the big city of kyiv, what we re seeing in mariupol right now.
i worry about a miscalculation or misjudgment on both sides. i am glad we set up a technical channel. second, he also said that he is going to go against supply lines and it is clear that supply lines providing nato equipment into ukraine goes through the west, especially their air fields. so they re reaching out, trying to cut off the supply lines of the ukrainians the way that we are trying to, or the ukrainians are trying to cut off russian supply lines going into russia and belarus. all right. general mark kim i will, thank you for the insights. we appreciate it. sure. coming up, a russian spy speaks out about the invasion and urgent warning her husband gave about putin before he was poisoned. nothing kills morere viruses, inincluding the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectatant spray. lysol. what itit takes to prote.
north and towards the cap. this is kherson. we ve heard this pseudo referendum held to try to have a break away state. and in the west, attacks, air fields here. we haven t seen missile strikes over there. but that of course in anticipation that we were going to put the mig fighters in there, but this is a new area of attack that putin is waging in his scorched earth campaign as trey yingst said. molly: we are going to talk about negotiations and where russia may or may not be willing to go and when things might change. but it s incredible to see. mariupol and the humanitarian disaster, and people trying to find out about loved ones and how the city has been left without infrastructure, without food, without water and it s in
this war, and one of the enduring mysteries is the airspace above ukraine. for outside observers, they have been curious as to why the russian air force has not been able to achieve air superiority. what is your take on this? one of the reasons is because of how nimble the ukrainians have been with their air defense systems. they have short and long range air defense systems. they re using them very effectively and quite efficiently. they are being very careful about how they are defending their skies. and they have been able to make it very difficult for russian pilots to fly inside ukrainian airspace. in fact, most air strikes that you are seeing, the dentist you re seeing, most of those airstrikes are actually emanating and never coming the aircraft are never leaving russian airspace or belarusian airspace. they are not venturing in to the ukrainian airspace and if they do, they don t stay long. of, course a lot of the airstrikes are missile strikes. they re being watched from a