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raging. she joins us right now at the pentagon. hard to believe and the changes st that and a strong taliban and apparently a strong terror presence. jennifer? absolutely, neil, it s amazing to think back to us speaking a year ago. i had a very interesting interview with a u.s. air force colonel on the ground overseeing the pull-out exactly a year ago. colonel collin mcklasky was on the last flight. he was responsible for the runways and air fields. 621 air men arrived to a nonfunctioning air field. his flight was at first turned back. those folks tried everything that they could to get into kabul short of landing on people. imagine people come across a barrier with their families and everything they have and doing
that is the ukrainians attempting to put together a counter offensive to retake territory. you can see that around theker shan city around try to siege the supplies to make the russian troops much more vulnerable. the attacks which surprise memorial day of us, martha in crimea. quite a distance away at air fields and depots. these are major supply points and reinforcements for the campaign that is being conducted in the south. this is a critical phase here, martha. because will the ukrainians be able to retake territory at the result of the russian stalled operation? can they get the momentum to do that? they have expressed their concerns privately that they re concerned about the united states and the international
initiative. they went from 5% of russian control to their territory to 20%. they won the battle of kyiv. putin failed to topple president zelenskyy. putin is watching nearly 4 million of his best and brightest leave his country. he s made nato great again. he s done more for ukrainian nationalism. so now ukraine is poised, supported by the arsenals of democracy, the other nato countries to perhaps go on the offensive to launch a counter offensive in the south in particular having again used these precision ammunitions to rush ammo dumps, fuel depots, headquarters and air fields in crimea seeming to set conditions for what might follow. but the question is can they now translate all of these arms and ammunition and support from the west into meaningful tactical and operational victories in the south? that remains to be seen in the
also, special operations, partisan operations, assassinations, they ve gone after the russian naval base in crimea for god sakes. they re blowing up massive air fields and ammunition dumps. the russians are in trouble i think. let s see what the pressure cooker is going to do to the moscow elites. that s so interesting, general, because you mentioned two things that seemingly could be opposites of one another but i d like your thoughts on that because you re saying that it seems not very probable that this would be carried out by ukraine but the other side, you re talking about special operations ukrainians have and are carrying out in different parts of russian controlled ukraine. if it isn t the ukrainians, it says a lot about well, putin s strength inside russia. well, it may well you know, it s also the possibility