is much more popular then the west portends. he s got a lot of support. my portends. he s got a lot of support. my book is about why we pushed the russians a bit too far. that doesn t at all forgive the war crimes, the atrocities and so on. it s going to be a longer war that we anticipated. not just the be a longer war that we anticipated. notjust the nine month phoney war, this is going to be a tough sledding warfor the their product this is going to be a tough sledding war for the their product but believe big tank battles. but armoured vehicle battles since 1916. you talk about nine months of phoney war. certainly for all of those people in ukraine it certainly doesn t feel like that. you mention in your first answer that you anticipated this time there would be air combat operation. what is the current state that you know of the ukrainian air force?
says he also urged russia to return to the s.t.a.r.t. nuclear treat tand free american paul whelan, who, the u.s. says, has been wrongfully imprisoned on espionage charges. they met for just ten minutes at the g20 summit in india, where blinken also said countries had warned china not to give russia weapons. and this is where putin needs them. fierce tank battles in the muddy fields of eastern ukraine, where both sides are losing men and equipment fast. we just had word now that a tank may have been damaged in battle, so, they re off now to retrieve it. and this is what s so important in this war. it s not just the equipment, it s the knowledge, it s the know-how of how to repair it and maintain it. the u.s. has promised 31 abrams, high tech equipment a world away from fixing tank engines on tree stumps. so, let s bring in james longman with us from ukraine again tonight. and james, the russians, i know, also reacting to this meeting today? reporter: yeah, the russians are downplay
these changes reveal about the battlefield in eastern ukraine? it is a couple of things. let s look at that battlefield. one thing that is different about out there, it is flatter ground, more wide open ground than we saw, for instance, around, say, kyiv and the early stages of the war. and that makes you think world war ii tank battles, poppy. you got wide open areas here where you have an artillery battle, and you can have these bradley fighting vehicles and tanks really go into open conflict there. the other piece of this that i m told, poppy, is this. that is that the u.s. is concerned that russia s going to attempt to regroup, launch more aggressive offensives here and they want to get ukrainians the equipment they need now to push back. that s what bob gates and condi rice were warning about. jim, thank you very much. thank you. also this morning, the justice department is now looking into this matter. classified documents from president biden s time as vice president tha
long. we got petrol, we headed on the way out, and i should say, the road that connects mykolaiv to the bridge, basically the one way out of there were tank battles going on. we saw, physically saw tanks moving back and forth and fighting each other. and understood that maybe might take the chance, but with kids on board, we decided not to leave at that time. what a time it s been ever since. what s it been like? or what was it like during those particularly tough periods, to hear sirens and explosions day after day? one of the things that s interesting, several people contacts here in odessa who previously lived in kherson. it s not just me who feels this
cat-7 tourniquets, which is the u.s.a.-approved tourniquet that is fielded within the u.s. united states military. burke, what do you think of these kits? have they been helpful? have they saved anyone s lives. absolutely. these kits i can honestly say saved holdups of lives. and what they contain inside gives them the ability to sustain life long enough to get to a doctor or surgeon who can then manage the patient from there. when they are used correctly it is almost like an extra life in a video game i guess you could say. incredible. what challenges have you and your team had in getting the first aid kits to the front lines. burke? yeah. you know, we are going on, i think now 97 days inside ukraine. in that time, we have been caught between tank battles. we have been hit with heavy artillery, submunitions, pinned by small arms fire and shot at