ukrainians have, over kyiv. so it doesn t look like they have the tombs. perhaps nato can get it in using intelligence agencies, using commercial trucks. but distributing it to fighting units will be extremely hard. i don t think the ukrainians have the month, the tank force, the attack helicopters to really take this on. they are vulnerable and at the head of the column the ukrainians are fighting bravely. the background is that you can t beat kyiv until you go into the city and put your own government in charge, and that will be a bloody affair that will roll out with huge devastation in the city and probably take weeks. so, again, i don t see a good option for the russian generals nor do i see how putin backs out, which is why we are seeing these nuclear threats. putin knows better. you can t win a nuclear
amount of aid across the board. i think zelenskyy s inspirational leadership and the incredible courage and tenacity of their ground combat units has taken these tools of war, smart munitions, and done absolutely unbelievable things with it. and brought to a standstill a quarter of 1 million men, russian armed forces. now, going forward, coalition forces are still banned. the ukrainians complicated systems are tough to move. defenses stems it will be a real challenge to get that to the fighters in ukraine. i think you are going to see a continued, substantial support. and ukrainians are actually so well organized that they are getting their fighting units. it s a grim scene. but kyiv has not yet been hit with massive amounts of russian
it doesn t. well, first of all, i think it s a diversion of attention from the 17,000 smart munitions, anti-tank weapons, stinger ground-to-air missiles. they re getting to the fighting units. when it comes to getting a handful of mig 29s, which may or may not be ground attack variants, which require sophisticated ground crews and armaments and 2500 feet runways and are easily discovered and interdicted by the russians, it s a diversion and by the way, poland understandably is saying hey, we don t want to be a in this war, so they re handing it off to the united states. the real solution in ukraine is are smart munitions. i hope we start adding unmanned ariel, lethal drones. either u.s., britt, french,
and ukrainians are actually so well organized that they are getting their fighting units. it s a grim scene. but kyiv has not yet been hit with massive amounts of russian artillery and rockets. that is the next step. but it s an optimistic picture on the ground from a soldier s point of view. how about false optimism? ambassador taylor, earlier today the russian foreign minister said there is hope for reaching a compromise. do you see that in any way? i mean, at the same time putin gave a dramatic, rambling speech full of lies to his own people, saying that while russian was doing was all defensive and protecting against nazis. lie, lie, lie. stephanie, of course, you are exactly right. that speech by president putin was not only lies, it was hatred. and hatred for his own, people for russians. d this was an amazing display, and particularly in contrast to
overnight. jim sciutto was just reporting, across the country, particularly the infrastructure locations. that s right, john. russia is continuing to show it has the will and capability to launch cruise missile strikes anywhere across the country. the focus the last few days have been support, logistical infrastructure. once again another fuel depot was hit a short distance from where we are. that s what they struck here in lviv in saturday, too. we ve seen that in mykolaiv in recent days. they ve also been hitting weapons storage locations in different parts of the country as well. all of this is to disrupt the supplies to ukraine s fighting units. if you interrupt their supply of fuel and weapons, you put pressure on the defense and increase the likelihood that the defense will falter. there will be so much focus on the sit si of azov that s been under siege.