correspondent, sam kylie, is on the ground for us there. what are you seeing now? well, the latest in eastern ukraine is that the town of both have been cut. heavy fighting around a village, which overlooks the highways regardless of who controls that village, the situation for ukraine is fighting in that town is extremely dangerous now. it s house to house fighting, which means they can t use artillery and tanks, commanders on the ground have told us, wolf. the north, there s also a big push from the ukrainians in c crimea. all indicators that perhaps this offensive has started. in the town of voludar, they ve lost up to a batallion of marines when they were fighting in the open. this is when ukraine has had the edge when the russians have been
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-when you bundle with us. -don t look at the hedges. -they re a mess. -no one s looking at the hedges. trace: white house briefing now underway, here is john kirby. listen in for a few seconds. how many like to have to get what they want to do done. counter offensives, and do you think they are going to get there with this whole hodge podge of different western contributions? you are right. i m not going to speak for president zelenskyy. if he was up here instead of me, he would tell you he wants as many as he can as fast as he can. the batallion we will provide, 31, ukrainian size, 30, 31 tanks, and the germans are going to help organize another two battalions, so about 60 more, roughly. and that s just what was talked
understood you correctly. you said previously in your assessment with the military and economic aid to ukraine that at this point thus far you have not seen any signs of corruption or misuse. correct. thanks, john. can you tell us a little bit more about how the u.s. settled on the number of tanks it s providing, 31. very specific number. i kind of got to it a little earlier. it s basically the size of a ukrainian tank battalion. a little astray of my knowledge, i was a naval officer, but as i understand it in american tank battalion has about 50 tanks in it and organized with more companies to comprise the batallion than in ukraine. it s just the way the ukrainian army is organized. not right or wrong, their battalions are basically at i believe two companies, so they are just smaller, and so two companies, it s about 15 tanks a company and that s how you get to the 30, 31.
the ministry of defence here, said the russian campaign in the east has lost momentum and is now significantly behind schedule . in fact, they believe russia may have lost a third of the groundforces it sent into ukraine in the face of this continued resistance. last week the ukrainians blew up several pontoon bridges over a river in the luhansk region, destroying an entire russian batallion. these are the pictures you are looking at now. these are the pictures you are looking at now. and suddenly after weeks spent fretting over what would happen if russia crushed ukraine, western european leaders are now worried about what might happen if ukraine actually wins. last week the french president emmanuel macron said a humiliation of russia could create a whole new set of problems, the italian prime minister mario draghi and the german chancellor 0laf scholz have stressed it would be up to ukraine to determine how this ends but like president macron, they ve underscored their preferen