brittney griner and those resources don t exist anymore, and it s not clear whether they ve been able to find new resources that could bring paul home. i think the concern we have right now, obviously with mr gerst ceviches arrest today is that they have not been able to deter the kremlin from arresting more americans and charging them with espionage. and so certainly my hope is tinged by that. all right, david whelan. thank you. and best of luck to you and your family. i hope that you hear from paul soon. i want to bring in to russia. experts evelyn farkas is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia , ukraine and eurasia and tom firestone, who served as a legal advisor at the u. s embassy in moscow. evelyn, i want to start with you just to get your reaction of what we just heard from david whelan. yeah i mean, pamela, i m afraid that this is extortion. as he said the russian government is looking to make a swap. probably we know that very recently, one of their spie
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there to quickly attempt to carry out a recovery effort. the pentagon hasn t indicated any level of concern here over whether they are or not seeing russia try to make a move on this downed drone, but this is something we will be watching now that possibility is out there. stay with us. we ll get back with you shortly. i want to bring in the former deputy assistant secretary of defense is with us, and retired general wesley clark, a consultant for the drone company called hush aerospace. general clark, this is the first time i know of that u.s. and russia military have come into direct contact. how alarming is this russian aggression? look, this is there are different ways to interpret this wolf, but a couple of russian pilots were playing cowboy and
his ambition. this year, chinese government will boost its military spending by 7.2% bringing the total budget in u.s. dollars to nearly $230 billion. that is a number that draws additional concern with u.s. officials warned china is considering sending lethal aid to russia, todd, ashley. todd: alexandria thank you, mike pompeo says the american people deserve answers, listen. this is a chinese virus that came from their laboratory. there was no mistaking that, but we should make sure we understand fully what the u.s. role in this pier there were loads violated by any senior member official and they should be held accountable too. millions of people around the world, shannon, ruth dominic the only way to get this right for the american people is to make sure that everyone connected to this and is held accountable. todd: late spring and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia, thank you for being
on our website. or you can use the bbc news app. now to the war in ukraine, and the head of russia s wagner group has said its forces now surround most of bakhmut, the east ukrainian city that has been the focus of extensive fighting in recent weeks. yevgeny prigozhin said there was now only one route out of the city and he called on ukraine s president to withdraw his troops. ukraine has acknowledged that its troops in bakhmut are under intense pressure. casualties on both sides have been severe. in the latest developments, the governor of the kharkiv region has ordered the immediate partial evacuation of the town of kupiansk because of constant russian shelling. this involves hundreds of children and people with disabilities. evelyn farkas, a former us deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia and ukraine gave us her observations on the recent developments in ukraine. what we re looking