blinken the offices there they are how can they help and in terms of the military equipment, the administration has been sending more howitzers, heavy artillery in anticipation of the battle of donbas. how can we help you win? there are several ways. the first thing is every single person in this country but every sickle person and the world is a very powerful weapon that is voice. today s violence is a crime silence has been a crime all the time, speak, reach out to your representatives. tell them to give more heavy weapons to ukraine. there is no difference between offense and defense to date any weapon is needed especially heavy artillery, especially antiaircraft, weapons and aircraft, okay? let s be honest we need them to
i think it s fantastic. lots of countries have been providing military assistance, but from the ukrainian government perspective, i just talked to senior people there this week, they re not providing enough. it s just that simple. they re fighting the battle of donbas is the next great battle in this war, and they need more weapons, so i think this is a great way to try to put more pressure on some of those european countries that have those weapons, in particular soviet-era weapons that they might transfer to the european to ukraine in return for the united states providing them weapons to replace to back fill those weapons. so i think it s a great moment. put more pressure on everybody to do more for ukraine. so, give me a sense of what you think might be included in the talks. i mean, certainly, visually, and in terms of the symbolism of all this, it s a big deal that you have the secretary of state and the defense secretary going to meet with zelenskyy. but what do you think th
there as you were talking about. it s a frozen conflict that s been there since the collapse of the soviet union. the idea he needs to occupy and take territory in moldova, i think if it s coming it s months away. and that s the other thing we really need to understand. this is the whole thing, right? ukraine has won the war already. the war. putin did not achieve his main objectives in the war. but now we re focused on the battle of donbas. and and the stakes are really, really high. if the ukrainians can fight to a standstill or push back the russians in the battle of donbas, then we ll never have to talk about moldova again. our allies will be reassured. but if putin wins the battle of donbas, then they have momentum. then we ll be beginning to talk about moldova and we ll be beginning to talk about maybe they re going to come up through kyiv again.
Moscow has given Ukrainian fighters defending Mariupol an ultimatum to surrender on Wednesday. Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rockets are advancing to capture the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
conversely, if he loses in donbas or fights to a stalemate, that will be a comforting to our allies and therefore, i think we have a major strategic interest to help the ukrainians win the battle of donbas. this is really a battle for the future of democracy and for the foreign policy of the united states and the west. so, you re nodding in agreement to that. but we re not giving them what they really need. we re giving them 800 million last week, another 800 million this week. it s not that quickly and takes a while to get in their hands and to get the training done. so, what has to happen for the u.s. to actually give them the jets, the tanks, the artillery that they really need? first, one big contextual thing. i think it s really proper we