challenge and so preparation and being prepared to defend yourself ahead of time has always been a very big advantage although sometimes difficult to come to grips with when everything is going well. the second thing is, you cannot underestimate although we love to measure tanks and army personnel and jets, it literally comes down to leadership, cohesion, morale of the units that are out there really become the secret sauce. arthel: absolutely. we have to, you know, praise president zelenskyy for his outstanding leadership. he stayed there. he is continuing to stay there and not the mention the civilians who took up arms and, of course, the ukrainian troops. general david perkins, we have to leave it there, we do thank you for joining us, we will see you again, sir, thank you very much. have a great day, thanks. eric: well, the expected visit by secretaries of state antony blinken and lloyd austin, public display of american support for
ukraine will win this war? i absolutely do, eric. i absolutely do. it might be quick, it might be as general perkins said, the russian military is not in good shape and when it goes up against the ukrainian military that is high morale as he indicated that s a real advantage. the morale advantage is is hard to quantify but it is very real. we saw it around kyiv. we saw it when the ukrainians defeated the russian attempt to get into kyiv and that will continue and as the new military assistance gets there, the ukrainians can definitely they can defeat the russian military. that could happen if the russian military crumbles, however, general perkins is also right, it could go wrong and even in that case if it goes wrong, in the end, ukrainians will win because, again, they ve got the will and if they continue to get the resources from the west, from nato, then they will defeat the russians.
meanwhile british intelligence says russia s ramped up attacks are being met with fierce resistance by ukraine forces tweeting this, quote, despite russia making some territorial gains, ukrainian resistance has been strong across all axis and inflicting significant cost on russian forces, poor russian morale and limited time to reconstitute, re-equip and reorganize forces from prior offenses are hindering russia s effectiveness. let s bring david perkins, commander of u.s. army training and also fox contributor. as russia s war of ukraine movers into the next phase, if you would, assess ukraine s and russia s strategy and which side is more likely to achieve its desired outcome? well, good day and thanks for
brutal. a town northwest of kyiv is now in shambles after ramped up russian attacks there. searchers looking through the rubble of an apartment block. an entire block. president zelenskyy says the scene is even worse than last week s horrific discovery, the bucha massacre. it is much worse there. even more victims from the russian occupiers. what will happen when the whole world learns what the russians did in mariupol. harris: kremlin spokesperson says russia has suffered major losses during its military operation losing a large number of troops in their failed bid to take ukraine s capital. he didn t word it that way. the bottom line is reports they will rebuild those numbers back. david perkins, retired u.s. army four-star general former
commander of the army s training command and fox news contributor. general perkins, thank you for being in focus. there seems to be a little bit of a break while they reportedly the terrorists as i call them for putin, rebuild their numbers. what are we looking at in the gap? good morning, harris. yeah, the military term we use they are taking a tactical pause. they are regrouping, reorganizing, rearming because as you said, their initial push going toward kyiv failed on all three levels of war, tactical, operational and strategic. not only did they fail, but they showed that the russian army is just not capable specifically the operational strategic level to do the kind of maneuver warfare it would take to take kyiv or suppress the entire country. unfortunately they ve reverted to what they know. back off and then just pummel