ukrainians after a while. but we learned over the past half a year, this is not a capability question, this is a will question. the question of will the ukrainians have beaten the russians time and time again, i think going into 2020, three going into the spring of this year, if the russians don t make major or significant gains, or at least hold their games going into 2023, the spring of 2023. if ukrainians keep making gains, i have to really look at a what we are seeing a your, go and asking whether the ukrainians might win this one. i cannot believe that, but it is a game of will, not just capability, john. and, do you, one of the major discussion points of this entire trip, the patriot missile. the patriot missile batteries the u.s. has promised to provide aid to ukraine. talk to us about what that can do, how that can, if it, can change things. and, how easy or hard it will be for the ukrainians to
as the biden administration readied another $800 million package, the defense believes they will target supply routes used to get the weapons from the u.s. and its allies to the ukrainian military on the front line. cnn s barbara starr is live at the pentagon with new reporting. i suppose there is intent, russian intent to do so. but does the u.s. believe they have the capability as well? reporter: that s what the big concern is of course, jim. a defense official says they believe russia will try and target some of these supply routes now. and you may ask why they haven t done it so far. we have no information that s been given to us that russia has succeeded in doing it yet. that s the capability question.
it s a capability question. i m not suggesting that would be well-outside of kabul. i m not suggesting it would not be throughout the countryside. i ve spoken to a few families on the bases. they want to know what they can do to assist. i m not sure what advice is being given and what advice can be given to help those coming to stay on bases is. there any briefing for those families, what they can do to help out as well? i d be more we re not surprised that people want to be generous and help that is terrific. we saw reports that the commanding general at fort bliss, they were being inundated from the local community about trying to help. there s various organizations and ngos that are helping these afghans relocate. i would recommend reaching out to those aid organizations and seeing what is most needed for
despite ongoing concerns from the united nations. engineers from iran and russia loading fuel into the country s first nuclear power plant. with iran still insisting it only has interest in energy production. and the russians saying, they ll make sure the facility is not used to make weapons. fox s caroline shively has the latest developments from washington. so, caroline, the big question of the day is, why should we believe that iran, when they say that this plant isn t being used to make weapons? well, for one thing, kelly the international atommic energy agency is there and watching them when they bring in the fuel rods and don t divert them to use for a bomb. a capability question. you need to enrich more than 90% for a nuclear weapon. this new plan is set to 3 1/2% and iran has a pilot program that enriches it to 20% for a medical research reactor. take a listen to one iranian official. we had said this over and over, that we are not