hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
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just reported, this is incredibly important. it stops them from resupplying their forces that are on the bank of the dnipro river, and what they want to do is trap them on the west side over here and ensure that they can cut them off from their supplies, trap them against the banks of the river, and hopefully destroy them. that is really what they re trying to do right now. i wouldn t get too carried away, however, because they ve got a very, very tough fight ahead of them. general, can you just show us these where these four villages are that the ukrainians have reportedly taken from russian control? and again, these aren t cities. they re villages. so, why are these so strategically important? well, they are important, because what they re going to do, obviously, is try to change the tide of the war and build a little momentum. now, my teammate, my friend, alex vindman, was in talking earlier today, and he was talking about the importance of retaking kherson before the winter s