just not flying a lot of their fixed wing right now. the pentagon, they re focused on getting them what they need right now. air defense is one. these stingers. there s things that they need right now and not as focused on the fixed wing at this point. both ukraine and russia have their air defense systems impact. that is something that is important there. courtney, i m curious. what s the pentagon saying about the russian strategy, what are they doing next year? so, it s pretty significant. so the russians have made some progress in the south, not a ton but definitely more than they re making in any other part of the country. and the concern is they re trying to build a land bridge that ultimately would go through donetsk to have mariupol which is getting pounded, all the way to the border, to odesa which is believed to be the next potential attack, potentially
western ukraine, not far from the polish border, a place where thousands of refugees continue to stream through here every day, down from a peak of about 60,000 a day. right now, here in lviv, the cultural capital of ukraine, we see this ominous black smoke rising on a saturday afternoon and we re looking at overcast skies right here. it is beginning to rain what appears to potentially be, you know, an escalation of this war after just a, you know, few hours, perhaps a little less than a day after that russian general said that russia was refocusing on the east and on the eastern part of ukraine. now, this potential attack, again, we re trying to figure out whether it was a rocket attack, get confirmation of that. we do not know, but local officials here in ukraine say
this quote that is a very good question. i will let you know when we take it back. do you think that s a good answer senator cornyn? we know what the problems are right now. we know inflation is undermining the standard of living of americans across the country including the people on fixed income in the lower end of the income scale pride we note violent crime has spiked because of the disrespect the far left has shown the police including this defund the police movement which has killed morale and made it harder for the police to do their job. we know the border is on fire. of course we now have an invasion of ukraine by vladimir putin. i think we ve got a lot to pay attention too. to meet those to be the issues that would drive our agenda when we get back in the majority. martha: i want to ask you quick i m good to speak with john kirby at the pentagon, this potential attack that ukrainian
this quote that is a very good question. i will let you know when we take it back. do you think that s a good answer senator cornyn? we know what the problems are right now. we know inflation is undermining the standard of living of americans across the country including the people on fixed income in the lower end of the income scale pride we note violent crime has spiked because of the disrespect the far left has shown the police including this defund the police movement which has killed morale and made it harder for the police to do their job. we know the border is on fire. of course we now have an invasion of ukraine by vladimir putin. i think we ve got a lot to pay attention too. to meet those to be the issues that would drive our agenda when we get back in the majority. martha: i want to ask you quick i m good to speak with john kirby at the pentagon, this potential attack that ukrainian
let s turn to russia. we were talking about it in our last segment. president biden will hold a call with president trump on tuesday. there are tensions about russia s military build up on the ukrainian border. what do you want to see president biden doing, what the best options on the table? let me say at the beginning, i don t think we have great options. but i do think this is a very grave moment. i think you can t overstate the risk here. the russians have 40 to 50 combat ready battalions they re putting together. it looks like they re going to focus on four or five areas of potential attack to dilute the ability of the ukraiians to respond effectively. they re building up to a total of 175,000 troops. they re prepositioning equipment. they had maneuvers with half