affected, luckily i was there, but definitely in cities that have been affected, it is not a pleasure but again, well, ukrainians are accustomed to the fact that we are at war and there are risks. nobody has one war is through missile strike terror. strike terror. many people are sa in: strike terror. many people are saying that strike terror. many people are saying that we strike terror. many people are saying that we were strike terror. many people are saying that we were waiting i strike terror. many people are| saying that we were waiting for strike terror. many people are i saying that we were waiting for some sort of retaliation from president putin. do you think this is it, or is there a feeling in kyiv? i know the president has said do not leave your bunkers, do not leave the safe areas for now. is there a feeling in the capital that there is more to come? , , ., , come? definitely, we need to prepare for the worst-case come? definitely, we need to prepare for the wors
of course or chemical weapons conventions with consequences for the use of chemical weapons if he were to do that. bret: the present has asked for $33 billion in addition to what has already been funded paid when does the senate consider a ukraine bill? it would be my hope that it will do so soon. hopefully either this week or the next. of course if there is consensus, if there is an agreement as you know anything can go to the senate through unanimous consent try to somehow there is a desire to start picking at a partner having amendments to it could last longer. but time is of the essence for the howitzers for example we provide in ukraine is many which on the ground already, with long-range missile capacity is going to help them and what is now a new phase of the war. and so, all that we can do to help the ukrainians fight for themselves and achieve their freedom is a critical period we don t what is putin ultimately
experience, from what you have read, what you have seen and sort of what you have witnessed in the past and bringing it up to the present, do you think the ukrainians have the missile capacity right now to strike into russia s redeployment areas if they show choose? i m not sure if been the total capacity, but i can tell you they have with wherewithal and we have seen that in the defense of kyiv. we have seen it in a couple of other places. and so the more they understand what russia is bringing from the east, the more that they can take their fire power and amass it and consolidate it and understand where the targets are and put the missiles where they need to, to defeat russia. so, general, i m curious about the intricacies of a no-fly zone, which is very controversial and most will say nato should not, you know, put a no-fly zone in place because it
the overpowering air capabilities, his air defense and long range missile capacity, he does have the capacity to knock out ukraine s, most of ukraine s high tech defense. he ll have to fight people on the ground, but the ground is frozen there, he can move the tanks through the swamps north of kyiv, he could have forces outside kyiv and if they weren t actively resisted in a day. yeah, look, another option for him would be to weaponize energy, which he s done in the past as well. raises a big question as to why nato in european countries there are not more energy independent. this is something you raised in the past as well. we ll have to leave the conversation there. we ll continue to cover it and would love to have you join us again in the future. general wesley clark, thank you. thank you very much. well, up next, the partying prime minister, details emerging this morning of yet another party that boris johnson attended while he was enforcing a covid lockdown for the rest of t
ago now relatively empty. joining us now, glen goustell counsel for national security agency in both obama and trump administrations. hi, glen, can you tell anything from these satellite images? what do they tell you? it s pretty clear that this is part of putin s pattern of ratcheting up the pressure to the maximum degree possible. we ve seen a steady drip by drip effort on the part of the kremlin to increase troop presence, to engage in new exercises in belarus, showing off their missile capacity, fomenting further trouble in eastern ukraine, all part of it, coupled with cyberactivity to ratchet up the pressure to the maximum degree possible. putin is well-aware, of course, that issatellite images reveal this, all part of his plan to increase pressure, only he knows