cory, their big hope is if they hold out for a long enough, they will buy time for advanced nato weapons to make it to the battlefield. first, those german made tanks, and then the ukrainians hoped eventually fighter aircrafts. what we are seeing the russians you is attacking in a slow grinding way along a several hundred mile front here in eastern ukraine. they are advancing sometimes just a couple of hundred meters a day, but they are advancing. the russians are taking major casualties among regular russian military forces, but also among the wagner mercenaries. they are also inflicting major casualties on the ukrainians as they go, the most intense fighting remains in that city of bakhmut, where the ukrainian forces are holding on, they are basically holding on by their fingernails at this point, the big fear for the ukrainian defenders about mood is that they will cut the road west out
investigate whether the royal air force should have any spare jets that they could potentially give to the ukrainians. this would be a major, major step for nato. we have seen the allies say no to things like tanks, right up to where they said yes, but the feeling is fighter aircrafts are just a whole different ball game, they could potentially be seen as so provocative by the russians if ukrainian pilots were using nato jets to attack, especially if they were attacking in a side of russian territory, which is something they would be able to do. the ukrainians promised the west that they would not do that. i think a lot of western military planners, looking at the situation, and seeing all fruit of scenarios that could lead to an escalation between russia and the nato military alliance. cory? that s when we approach the one year anniversary at the start of the war, where is the move as you go towards that day? february 24th? yeah, people are resolute. one of the questions i have
everything we can to help the ukrainians continue their momentum on the ground. but also to equip them with whatever it takes to repel the air offensive that the russians have also mounted with drones and other fighter aircrafts. one more question to you, real quick, to congressman crow. nic craig, president of global affairs at meta, i.e. facebook, and instagram, has said they are reinstating donald trump s accounts with new guardrails in place to deter offenses. also saying that the danger he wants post has lessened. do you buy that? no. who dies? who is paying attention to what is happening the last five years? seriously, this man remains a danger to our democracy into our country, from day one of his presidency. he is a sociopath. there is no doubt about that.
the russians out, they think they could make a commitment to president biden and the rest of fighter aircrafts, or long-range missiles inside russia, and they think they can make that commitment in a credible way, and could push the russians out. so that is the dilemma. on the one hand, the west, and president biden first and foremost wants to give enough, but not sugar escalation and on the other hand, president zelenskyy wants to win this war, and he believes the faster they can push the russians out, the faster they will end the war and fewer people will die. that is the logic he is trying to explain, i think first to president biden today, maybe to the american people tonight. mr., there has been some reporting and advance of the speech tonight, we haven t verified, we don t know if it is true, but it is being discussed that president zelenskyy might call tonight for some sort of peace summit, for some sort of talks towards ending the war. do you know anything about that?
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