forces. and the u.s. ambassador to nato, serves as president of the chicago council on global affairs. jason, what goes through your mind, when we listen to what hannah was dedescribing? southeast, and west of that country is under direct threat. what goes through your mind as you watch the advancing of russians in ukraine. hannah gave a great report. on the ground, what is happening, deal with that first of all. she broke this down well, in the case of air defense, versus ground artillery. heavy weapons used by infantry or forces on the ground. that is where russia has struggled. logistics problems, a lot of armorand tanks are not being
talking with new military aid that would include a lot more heavy weapons. when we get more details on this we ll keep you posted. lt. colonel bob mcginnis, what he makes of that, in particular, colonel, this thing dragging on well into next year, through the end of next year, what do you think of that? neil, last week i had an article on fox news on that very topic. i think that general milley, and boris johnson are correct, that you know, putin s not going to give up or at least give up until he can have some face-saving outcome so it s likely this will continue, and of course, as you indicated before the break, that they are having serious logistics problems. they re having manpower problems. their tanks are being knocked out by our javelins and now that they re in the east in the donbas area where it s mostly flat, it s an artillery duel. what s happened in mariupol is going to continue and they ll
driven by people who are not in a position really to do it. and yet, again, i come back to this assessment by the u.s. that there have been no major territorial gains for russia since the start of this new push in the donbas region, and all along we ve been reporting that they were much more positioned to succeed in this area. so what do you think is russia s problem on the ground there? are you surprised that they aren t making more progress more quickly there in terms of their objective? surprised is eroding over time with the compounding and competence demonstrated by the russian army. i don t expect this particular assault to go much better than the action on kyiv earlier a couple months ago. the new general has the old problem. he has the logistics problems. he has the morale problems.
will continue in phase two. there s a good chance given the fact the russians still have logistics problems. they suffer from terrible morale. the united states and nato is ramping up the effort, but it s far too early, i think, to call this one for the ukrainian military. it s a long way to go, and i think it will be four, six, eight weeks before we have a better sense of where the trajectory is going. so how discouraging is it when you have u.n. nations from china to brazil to india and 21 others refusing to suspend russia from the human rights council in the midst of this invasion. what does it tell you about russia s power hold, whether it be the energy or something else on so many nations? the world is a complicated
ukrainian army and with the way we use these weapons. what i have seen since i have been here on the ground in the recent days is that there appears to be a degree of logistics problems. there s a lot of weapons being brought in to the country, being handed off to the military but they need to be distributed. the right weapons need to get into the right hands of those that have trained in the ukrainian armed forces, the special operations community within the ukraine forces that know how to use these special weapons. they could use some help with logistics. we ll have the complete report, the complete interviews that i did with ukrainian s foreign minister tonight on special report with bret baier. trace: are there concerns, jen, that russia might start attacking the weapons convoys coming in to ukraine? that was the warning from