covertly if they start shutting down the resupply lines as well. the only way the ukrainians can hold out here is we have to make certain we get them the arms and munitions that they need. bill: yeah. dana: we have to do all those things and they have to be done quickly if we re to help them. thank you so much. we ll see you later today i m sure. great talking to you. dana: thank you. the idea we would give our money to an enemy is unthinkable and absolute lunacy. we can t allow this to continue. bill: nikki haley one of the many voices calling on the biden administration to ban russian oil imports. would it make a difference? marc thiessen. how biden s energy priorities are escalating the crisis. dana: a swiss filmmaker made a movie detailing russia s last
and bases in crimea. they are relying on those and so kherson is not that far from crimea. the lines of communication are still intact, but what we are told is they may, in fact, leave kherson or just hold it, not spend a lot of effort in kherson and move down on odesa by land, not necessarily by sea. john: one area we are seeing a lot of death and destruction, northwest of kyiv. we have seen apartment buildings reduced almost to are you able, uninhabitable, to bring the resupply lines and armor down. this is the main road out of kyiv, past the airport here and then up to borodyanka, and we have seen a lot of shelling and then we have actually seen the
multi-3e8 axes that this offense is being conducted along, and then you have to realize only about one third of that number of troops are close combat troops. and they are facing very determined resistance with ukrainians who have some pretty significant close combat capabilities. what they don t have and what have you covered here is they don t have control of the air, right? and that hurts they can t really contest the air very well. and they are losing control of the sea lanes and the sea ports. and so what you have is really the ability of russia to slowly choke ukraine out but they won t be able to control the territory and control the ukrainians. and i don t think they are going to be able to sustain the losses that will be inflicted upon them over time. jesse: so if they lose control of the dnieper river, they lose the port cities and they are kind of choked off from resupply lines, is there any way we can load them up with these drones because i think the turkish drones were
one saying this. this is the first time i ve said this, but i m sure my colleagues in the pentagon are just rolling over at their desks. i think we re i think these discussions are taking place, because there s a lot of people saying, for god s sake, you ve got to do something here. how can we stand aside and watch this happen? and not do more than we re doing? and i don t want to understate what we re doing. the impact of the sanctions, the providing of the ammunition from almost every nato country providing some type of military hardware to them. i m concerned that the resupply lines could be cut. that s another area that we need to really focus on, to keep the resupply going. so, i do believe that these discussions are going on, because i think there s a lot of pressure now on western nations to have an answer, at least a better answer than, well, nato s, you know, ukraine is not a member of nato. we ve got to have a better answer than that. we ve got to be able to show, as
these resupply lines. and at that point, it will close down. and as it closes down, the humanitarian crisis will escalate in the cities. so putin s failed his effort to run a and seize the cities first off, put in his stooge puppet leader and declare ukraine as his. he s got a slower strangulation strategy. nato is going to have to work it day by day, with the ukrainian forces as best we can in field, they got to fight. they got to split their forces. they can t all just defend cities and be isolated in cities. they have got to defend the cities with the less mobile forces, the less well trained forces, the reserve forces, they got to constitute mobile reserves and strike the russian forces when they maneuver in the field or when they try to amass against a city. got to cut the russian supply lines as they go deeper into ukraine.