rabbit, they re bringing him back because he brings good luck. that is it for captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, president zelenskyyay impassioned plea to congress invoking 9/11 and pearl harbor, begging for help and a no-fly zone. plus, the new military equipment and millions of dollars in aid president biden is promising ukraine. via satellite with his country in the crosshairs, the president of ukraine brings lawmakers to tears, getting a standing ovation. tonight, his direct message to president biden. the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. o donnell: president biden s strongest condemnation yet of vladimir putin. i think he is a war criminal. o donnell: tonight, the switch blade drones and singer missiles he s pledging, in what s being called an
their battlefield objectives, they re not going to take advantage of kyiv, replace president zelenskyy with a pro russian figure, they re not going to achieve most of their other objectives. we ll talk about that in a moment. that s where the situation is most fraught for the ukrainians. if they can continue the counter attacks, be augmented with more air defense systems that reach above the altitude of the range of the stinger missile systems and it only goes up to 10,000 feet or so, if they can get more switch blade drones, silent but deadly kamikaze mission, if all of that can be brought together, there can be a realization in moscow this is not going. not only are we walted, we re showing incredible inability to logistically replace losses and
effective, they put more firepower in there, more armored vehicles, more untrained semiskilled troops. their losses will be terrific. but it is competitive. and if the ukrainians cannot acquire the necessary munitions, the heavy equipment they need, they re not going to be able to stand up on the battlefield for the next russian assault. speaking specifically of some of that equipment, we learned the switch blade drones are in the process of being delivered as part of this package of military assistance that was announced earlier this month by the president. how important are those switch blade drones? what could they do for the ukrainians? they re like a small mortar round. 100 of them. they re symbolic. they re great for special to forces operations. if you find the russian general standing on the battlefield smoking a cigarette and see them and launch this, you can target it on them. what they need now is not just
but not to fight the big fights and they are at a distinct disadvantage. dana: that s good to know. bill: if it s true that russia is moving troops to belarus with resupply wouldn t it be a good time to have fresh migs if you fight for ukraine? wouldn t they be a prime target, general? this is insane that we haven t given them the migs. 29, give or take one or two but a lot of things we should have done. we re waiting for the s-300 air defense umbrella to put over the west. we should have gone to the nato countries and bulgaria, slovakia and greece and said give it to them and we ll backfill them and we didn t do that. the list of equipment we gave to the ukrainians. 100 drones and called the switch blade drones which are good. 100? we should give them thousands.
we are ready to negotiate. now, negotiation doesn t mean we re ready to surrender, ready to give up on what our red line, our territorial integrity, our sovereignty. and yes, we re looking for great assistance from all of our friends and allies to help us to do so. help us to fight. and also help us to get into a fair peace for ukraine and to get guarantees. which would be different from assurances we have received in 1994, when ukraine, as the only country that voluntarily retrieved the third largest nuclear arsenal we used to have after the collapse of the soviet union in exchange of this assurances. so, it s all interrelated. what about getting the switch