was lost at sea. they did release this video showing the crew mustering a parade ground in russia, crew of 500. it appears that half of the crew was lost when the ship was destroyed. to help ukrainian forces win the next battle in the donbas, the white house is sending $800 million worth of weapons including artillery, drones and helicopters, they want to see the ukrainian forces beat the russians. eric: yeah, they need the artillery for the upcoming battle of donbas, thank you. arthel: we will bring in new york republican congresswoman nicole, member of house foreign affairs committee and house infrastructure and transportation committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. first of all, how serious is putin s threat, is he bluffing? congresswoman: it s hard to say, the cia director says they have not seen any concrete evidence that this is an eminent threat but certainly as putin becomes
this point i have to advocate for weapons. eric: ukrainian activist maria. she was speaking with me on fox news live yesterday urging the u.s. and the west to keep sending heavy weapons to ukraine answering the pleas for help the biden administration has also now significantly expanded the intelligence it is providing to ukraine s forces along with the heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers and helicopters for what is expected to be the upcoming battle of donbas and some speculating that the u.s. gave information to kyiv to coordinate the attack that sunk russia s flagship warship in the back sea and we can also provide information to pinpoint putin s tanks so that the ukrainians can take them out but it s not clear if they are doing that yet, don hoffman,
putin because he needs to be stopped here in ukraine and he needs to be stopped now. and poses great threat to the western world if we allow him to continue the offense. arthel: meanwhile ukrainian president zelenskyy was with jake tapper that the world should be prepared to putin to use nukes, let s listen. when they begin to speak about one or another battles or involve enemies or nuclear weapons or some chemical, you know, issues, chemical weapons, they should do it, they could do it. we should not be afraid. i mean, not be afraid, be ready. arthel: be afraid, be ready. i mean, putin s threat to use nukes, isn t why he s being treated with kid gloves on a level. it s time to stop to your point you re saying that president biden needs to stand up more forcefully and draw the red line
president biden has gotten, you know, applause, if you will, for working with nato and strengthening nato in that in that vein let me ask you this, finland and sweden will apply in june, do you expect consensus from 30 nato members to accept finland and sweden? congresswoman: i do. but this is the other reason why putin continues to make these threats. i think he s made the threats of chemical weapons in response to this request from finland and sweden and we think the invasion was began because of ukraine willing to be part of nato and nato has to show strength here. finland and sweden, obviously, they are concerned as nations that are in the part of nato that they could perhaps be invaded next if there s some success here by putin in ukraine
to see what they need, how we can work together and how we can ramp up domestic production. the reality is the companies are not going to invest in production and expansion if they are seeing anti-energy policies coming from this administration. that is the reality and he needs to stop and retract some of the executive orders that he put in place that have hurt energy production in this country and desaided it. eric: we will have more on the war in ukraine in fox news channel. former cia official dan hoffman is here on how we can help take out putin s tanks, can we get the information to ukraine? first grisly discovery in eastern weekend, a mother found stuffed inside of duffle bag