to canada, to washington. you would have thought, the russians would have had the capacity to interfere with that electronic capacity, that ukraine still has. absolutely. as we came out with our coverage of the war, pulling back to current reviewers, we thought would be knocked off the air in kyiv. that is why we set up in lviv. instead, the power is, on the heat is on, the water is running, there is a theory that the russians maybe need that equipment, because they don t have the fuel to sustain their invasion. but, it has allowed presidents in minsk to continue broadcasting. there is a number of confounding things, like that. for example, these turkish drones, where we talk so long about these 40-mile-long convoy, and it was stalled outside of kyiv and we are wondering why that was stalled, maybe the fuel lines, we knew they were attacked, is re-supplies, but these turkish drones, which are maybe supposed to be easy to jam, easy to shoot down, have
they have the potential of capturing or destroying up to 10,000 russian troops in this one area. that would be an entire combined arms army because the ukrainians have not only pushed them back but surrounded them and the russians can t get resupplies into that area. the thing most important about this is they pushed them back far enough that they can t, they re out of artillery range of the city of kyiv. so the russians cannot do long distance fires against kyiv like they ve done in so many other major cities that s caused some catastrophe and human suffering. which is wise, a critical development here. nato leaders meeting, g7 leaders meeting. asked specifically for fire power. give us 1% of what you have, he said. what do you think of that request, and what options are realistically being considered by nato leaders now?
russians need in the south. they have been very successful in resupplying themselves in the southern area of this fight because they have the ports around crimea. this will be a significant, really, disaster for the russian forces because they re trying desperately to continue to push out of the area. when you can affect the supplies this way, the re-supplies, you affected the fight and that s what is causing all the so-called stalling that we ve been talking about for the russian troops. they are on what s called an operational pause. they re not, it s not a planned pause, it s a forced pause because they right now cannot go any further. general, it s great to see you. thank you very much. coming up for us, what concrete actions will come from today s extraordinary series of meetings of world leaders on the war in ukraine? that is a huge question. we ll get back to brussels. wolf blitzer standing by live. new gold bond pure moisture lotion. 24-hour hydration.
you would do running on the spot or sit ups or press ups to try and get warm and fall back asleep for ten minutes again, wake up freezing cold. so, that s how difficult it was. we re now between the two gun lines and there s a right old artillery duel going on between them. the battle on the ground tookjust over a month. short, but victory would be bittersweet for robert lawrence, a young lieutenant in the scots guards who fought in one of the last battles at tumbledown. it became gutter fighting. ammunition, you know, re supplies aren t going to happen in the middle of a battle, so once you are using up your ammunition, you start using whatever you can lay your hands on, including enemy weapons, and your bayonet. towards the end of the battle, robert was shot in the head by a sniper. the bullet had hit me in the back of the head and came out up here, just in my hairline above my right
that i feared we would come to regret this decision, and we already are. this again is a nightmare, and there are no good ways forward. taliban rule is not preferable to a civil war, which is terrible also. again, none of this is, there is no good outcome unless the united states and its allies recognise that we made a serious mistake, that the planning was overly hasty, that we pulled away from the afghan forces that had come to depend on, ourairpowerand forces that had come to depend on, our airpower and drones, forces that had come to depend on, ourairpowerand drones, i don t think people realise how crucial, notjust ourforces and that 8500 coalition forces that departed, but the 18,000 contractors who maintain the afghan air force. i said months ago that i feared there would come a time, because the maintenance would degrade and the air force would basically become inoperable, that if there are simultaneous requests for reinforcements, re