an additional billion dollars of security force assistance. that s remarkable. what is your assessment of russian forces now? are they stalled? are they regrouping so that they can increase their assault, increase their violence on ukraine? what is your assessment? it s hard to tell, don. i think they have not progressed as quickly as they would have liked to. i think they envisioned they would move rapidly and have i quickly seize the capital city. they have not been able to do that. they have instrument 89 with logistics, so we have seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of air capability with the ground maneuver. there are a number of things we would have expected, and that s
they have not progressed as quickly as they would have liked to. i new they envisioned they would move rapidly and very quickly, seize the capital city. they have not been able to do that. they ve struggled with logistics. so we ve seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground maneuver. so there are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we haven t seen. and the russians really have had some problems. many of their assumptions have not proven to be true as they entered this fight. the president is speaking with xi jinping and we are getting reporting that russia has been asking china for drones
an additional billion dollars worth of security force assistance. that s remarkable. what is your assessment of russian forces now? are they stalled, regrouping so that they can increase their assault or increase their violence on ukraine? what s your assessment of the russian military? it s hard to tell, don. i think they have not progressed as quickly as they would have liked to. i think they envisioned they would move rapidly and quickly seize the capital city. they ve not been able to do that. they struggled with logistics so we ve seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground maneuver, and so there are a number of things we would have expect to have seen we just haven t seen, and the russians
very quickly seize the capital city. they have not been able to do that. they ve struggled with logistics, so we have seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of technical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground ground maneuver. and so, there are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven t seen and the russians really have presented with some problems so many of their assumptions have not have not proven to be true as they as they entered this fight. well, austin also said he was hoping china wouldn t offer military or economic lifeline to russia, which moscow had reportedly requested. that is obviously the u.s. and the western position, hoping china will not jump into actually offer support. let s get more now on vladimir putin s defense of russia s
what is your assessment of russian forces now? are they stalled? are they regrouping so that they can increase their assault or increase their violence on ukraine? what s your assessment of the russian military? it s hard to tell, don. i think, you know, they have not progressed as quickly as they would have liked to. i think they envisioned that they would move rapidly and very quickly seize the capital city. they ve not been able to do that. they ve struggled with logistics, so we ve seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground maneuver. so there are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven t seen, and the russians really have had it s presented them some problems. many of their assumptions have