the bolton states, and all that who are around ukraine and very close to russia. and really mobilizing the western response over this past year. what we did hear there is not just a big weapon systems that needed still for ukraine, but a lot of ammunition. that is the most crucial element right now as the nato secretary general says, they are having a hard time keeping up with how much ukraine is using. wolf? christiane amanpour, thank you very much for that excellent interview! just ahead, a liberated ukrainian town on edge. right now they are preparing for an anticipated new russian military offensive. cnn is there. stay with us! you are in the situation room! with new flonase headache and allergy relief! two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. psst! psst! all good!
and right after that, russian missile struck. so remember, when i said goodbye to volodymyr, volodymyr told me andre, i don t know with it we would see each other again. it was a very powerful moment a moving moment, and then he told me that putin thinks he could control ukraine, just like they did with crimea in 2014, then he is mistaken. we have 80 years of combat experience, and thousands of people who are fighting on the front. we are going to fight until the end, until they drop, and that is what is happened. they are fighting until today. they need weapons, the difference is huge, in terms of quantity, the russians have got today s old equipment, very old equipment. they re taking tanks from the 1960s from their stocks, but they have those tanks, and they re crashing they have this advantage of steel of mass and they re crashing ukrainians there s 140 million russians and less than 40 million ukrainians.
possibly sign to provide lethal weapons to russia? look everybody sees what tony blinken said about china. i m concerned about that. i think it would be very wrong of the chinese to support lattimore portent in that way. why would beijing now wants to be contaminated by what putin is doing? why would they want to be associated with this gangsterism and adventurism? i think it would be a disaster for china. and i hope very much that it won t prove to be true. but if it is true, it shows all the more clearly why we must now accelerate our support for ukraine. and double down on giving them what they need. as i say, if not now, when? before i let you go, prime minister, i know you built a very deep and strong relationship with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. how do you think history will remember his leadership in this
do you think that president i can take to fdr s experiences? well one of the things fdr understood when we started sending our weapons or where there was that he had to wrap them up little by little. so he started with surplus weapons, and then he got more fighter weapons. and just as biden is being challenged to do said more and more so that england could survive, with saved us 18 months, really, before we got into the war. and then ukrainian survival is important. so you gotta figure out and this is what must keep him up at night. how far can i go to send a next weapon along? that they need right now? one of the things that herschel kept saying, give us the tools! we will do the job! but then he oversaw personally, rose about the, to make sure that those weapons got there. he made in with made sure that those railroad tracks where free so that they can get to the depots. made sure that they got off on the ships. make sure that they got over to england. it takes that kind of lea
well. training people to do that. but let s train them as well! so i can assume, prime minister, you re calling out president and the u.s. to start providing these f 16 jets to ukraine? that is correct. i think that the logic of what we ve been doing is to continue to give the ukrainians what they need to protect themselves to protect their half and their own home! to protect their families! protect their country! and to expel putin from the areas that he has conquered at least since the invasion of february the 24th of last year. and in my view, now, i think that the ukrainians have an ever stronger case. but getting back out to the 1991 borders. that s what that s the ukraine that people voted for in 1991. that s the contrary to which they are entitled! i know prime minister that you share the u.s. concerns when it comes to china s support for russia s war. what changed china s calculations on possibly