resistance. reporter: before the war started, this was unimaginable. outgunned and outmanned ukrainians stopping a russian armored column in its tracks. u.s. officials estimate the ukrainians have destroyed several hundred armored vehicles which are the heart of russian military power. the russian army is equipped with literally several thousandand, fairly modern battle tanks, and it s central to their way of war, which is focused on mass and on momentum. reporter: retired army colonel richard hooker, now with the atlantic council, says one of the weapons that has slowed the russian momentum is the american-made javelin antitank weapon, which the u.s. is shipping to ukraine by the thousands. once the operator launches the weapon, the missile takes over and flies itself, so the operator can seek cover. reporter: can it actually destroy a tank? absolutely. it s a very destructive and very effective weapon. reporter: fired from ground level, the javelin first pops
foreign fighters had joined russian troops. that shift in focus maybe because of the assault on kyiv has been such a disaster. the russian military power that has given a renewed confidence not only to ukrainian troops but to ukrainian civilians. but all of this fighting, as it keeps raging on, has also sparked a massive humanitarian crisis. the biggest in europe since the second world war. the numbers are staggering, 4 million ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes. another 6 million ukrainians are displaced within their country. those figures will only keep growing as this war continues to drag on. lawrence? ali, is there any indication that peace negotiations or cease-fire negotiations are getting any sense of hope to the ukrainian people, or are they just on hold waiting for
Fifty-two percent of Americans see the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a vital threat to U.S. interests, while U.S. sympathies lay largely with Ukraine. A record 85% view Russia unfavorably, while 62% view Ukraine positively.
“They are absolutely able to bring great force to a position of readiness. That is something that we have to think about: What does that mean geo-strategically that we now have a nation that can produce this ready force and now has demonstrated that it will use that ready force to go across a sovereign boundary?”
To deter Russia from using its ground forces either to intimidate its neighbors to the West or to conduct a lightning war, NATO must have a robust conventional capability deployed in Eastern Europe.