abilities, and intelligence capabilities that we are able to find him in kabul and take this action as president biden said with meticulous planning and with careful regard for preventing civilian casualties. i do think it demonstrates that we will not relent in terms of our efforts to take out okay to leaders as well as leaders of other terrorist organizations who percent a threat to u.s. interests and persons. let s talk about the position here, or general, because a senior administration officials said that this guy was taken out while he was standing on a balcony as nearby family members were not hurt. how does this type of drone mission happen? well as director brennan said, this is really a brilliant operation, is the sum total of a intelligence community at the massive overhead satellite photography that will signal intelligence for the cia still maintains an agent network in the country, and then finally s drones,
converging in ukraine s east now. with the aircraft and the equipment, that appears to show them preparingeq for a massive w offensive, commercial satellite photography shows an eight mile long russian military convoy in the east. the second largest city, the largest in the east, kharkiv. ukrainian military has thus far been david, fighting off a relentless and brutal goliath. but again, with new and as yet unconfirmed etreports, that rusa may have usedun a chemical weap in the city of mariupol, and with confirmed reports that russia appears to be preparing a whole new massive scale assault on the eastern part of the country, how much proverbial gas does the ukrainian side have left in the tank? how well resourced are they? how much more do they have to give? how much longer can they fight this hard and this well and this effectively?
and then finally what we re aware of is that the russians can control 60% of ukraine s fuel supply. much of the electrical energy. they re in a rough situatio. i have been looking at commercially overall satellite photography. these armory units are some covered with snow. they haven t yet moved into attack position. this is threats but not readiness to take action. general mccaffrey, in terms of the sort of full court press, certainly what it looks like from the outside on the diplomatic, military, boll stefring the ukrainians, what are the thoughts about the biden
we saw things that, as you said, russia says the ukrainians may have staged. now the new york times has put out a timeline with satellite photography that indicates those bodies were there prior to the russian evacuation outside of bucha, and at some point, these are noncombatants. these are civilians. they re in civilian clothing. there s nothing that could that they could be mistaken for being combatants or soldiers. and as long as we say, never again, and as long as we have nato and the european union and the council of europe and the g7 and the g20 and we don t do things about this, then at some point, we have to have an honest conversation with ourselves about the fact that either we mean it or we don t. now, the valid concern here from a lot of people is that, what does more look like? what does military intervention look like? are we headed to and engaging in world war iii and getting into direct combat with the russians, and will that trigger a nuclear response? and look, t