correspondent, is joining us now. she was part of that pentagon and as we were rejoining the show, he was being asked about those switch blade drones and how quickly these advanced weapons can get to ukraine because i was noting earlier before you joined us that the s-300s from slovakia that we promised a couple of weeks ago are just now getting in. so they re putting in a lot but the supply chain is not getting there as fasts as they can. you re right, andrea. everything that s needed is needed before the next phase moves in.
he tells me units like his played a major role fending off russian troops despite the ukrainians being ghastly outgunned. we are agile. the army, they have to stay. they are ordered to stay, they re dying but they stay. they re holding the ground. reporter: nobody knows how many russians died here, but the group says it was many taken out with a band of amateur drone pilots looking to defend their homeland. fred pleitgen. ukraine. thank you for that report. ukraine has a new shipment of weapons from the u.s. to aid its defense against russian forces. this time 100 switchblade drones. joining me now, cnn global affairs analyst and th time magazine contributor. let s start with the new 100 switch blade drones. last week it was tanks. this week it s drones. how significant is this of an
as the u.s. is pledging $100 million to put javelin missiles in the hand of ukrainian troops. and a small number training on the switch blade drones. joining us is the democratic colorado congressman, a member of both the armed services and intelligence committees who served as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan and helped protect his colleagues january 6th. you and your colleagues recently wrote a letter to the white house asking for more military aid from the ukrainian people. we ve seen the atrocities out of bucha. what more can the white house and congress do, what more could they do to stop these horrific acts of violence? these are horrific. the images are heartbreaking. they re worse than heartbreaking. they re horrifying. there are war crimes being committed.
switch blade drones that destroy when they land. what difference do you think this will make? we ll see what difference it s going to make, but as i said, any aid, especially military aid, is especially important to defend our country. we are fighting. but we also need support of our allies. we need humanitarian help, because a lot of civilians are struggling. we need the support crucially. and we need to stop putin s war. we need to stop as soon as possible. the sooner it s going to happen, the more severe the lives, or lives in general we ll save. german chancellor has said something this morning pretty much said by every nato nation up until now, they will help while they can, know there will be no nato military assistance
range, send the drone off quickly, identify the target and then jam it right into that tank so it surprises them from the air. a california company makes the switch blade drones. they cost $6,000 apiece. this first shipment of 100 is really a test run depending how they do on the battlefield there could be many more on the way. back to you. steve harrigan live in atlanta. thank you. dana: fascinating. president biden spoke for two hours by phone with president xi on friday upon the war in ukraine. looming over the call the possibility of another potential invasion as the new york times column puts it, is taiwan next? let s bring in general jack keane retired four star general chairman at the institute for the study of war and fox senior strategic analyst. let me ask you what you think based on what you have heard from the call. not from the white house, more from beijing, but china s calculations as they think this