eastern military district in the extreme soviet far east. they will bring troops in from everywhere they can but i don t think they ll be able to muster the strength they need to truly occupy ukraine and no matter what happens with kyiv, they re going to find that they re going to need a lot more troops than the population is definitely not going to cooperate with them. and the u.s. estimates conservatively that russia has lost perhaps 10% of its total force today, in three weeks. cedric leighton, always good to have you on. thanks, jim. a member of ukraine s parliament that had to send her own children abroad for safety. what she thinks of president zelenskyy s message today. the president biden, you are the leader of the nation of your great nation. i wish you to be the leader of the world. being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
putin. as you know, though, president zelenskyy asked for a formal no fly zone, the u.s., nato has so far refused to do so saying perhaps understandably that that could lead to direct military conflict between the u.s. and russia. what it is sending in and rereported are additional air defense systems including the s 300 which is a soviet air system, high altitude. does that compensate in your view, does that protect the skies over ukraine sufficiently? well, i think president biden is making the right call when he says that we re not going to put american boots on the ground or american pilots in the air but i was very pleased to see the stepping up of support on the air defense side. the s 300 system is what needs to be sent in right now because you know ukrainians are familiar with that system. it s a former soviet air system
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