when they are asking for more weapons, it is because they are now engaged in this trench warfare with vladimir putin. when the war began, russia invaded all over the country, there were battles in small towns and cities outside of kyiv. the russians were trying to push into kyiv and the russians wore spread out over this very large, mostly flat country. instead, after having been june back to the east, there was an old fashioned frontline and on what side of it you have russian troops, on the other side you have ukrainian forces. in between them there are lines of trenches and land mines. they are firing artillery pieces and tank rounds at each other. ukrainians are concerned, even though they are infecting very heavy losses on the russians right now that overtime this kind of stand up boxing match with a heavier opponent, which is russia, ultimately favors russia because they have more
union. many countries that were part of the soviet union gained their independence when the soviet union collapsed and don t want to go back to the old days. they don t remember those old days as good old days. vladimir putin apparently does. when they are asking for more weapons, it is because they are now engaged in this trench warfare with vladimir putin. when the war began, russia invaded all over the country, there were battles in small towns and cities outside of kyiv. the russians were trying to push into kyiv and the russians wore spread out over this very large, mostly flat country. instead, after having been june back to the east, there was an old fashioned frontline and on what side of it you have russian troops, on the other side you have ukrainian forces. in between them there are lines of trenches and land mines. they are firing artillery pieces and tank rounds at each other. ukrainians are concerned, even though they are infecting very heavy losses on the russians right
having seen the russians retreat back from the capital. there was a distinct possibility that vladimir putin would have been in that main square in kyiv today. instead, ukrainians saw what happened over this last year. they saw how they rallied down their country, they came out to defend their country. now they have another fight on their hands because russia has launched a new offensive out here in these. that is why they continually ask for weapons. i know people in the united states have grown tired of hearing it. all the canyons keep asking for more weapons, as if they are stockpiling them or selling them on the black market or something. they are using them. they are using them every single day out here in the east. we see it when we are with troops, they tell us they don t have enough ammunition, they don t have enough tank rounds.
of unusual activity in ukraine on that day. john, what goes into, i m asking you this because nicole wallace asked me earlier, how did the white house keep this under wraps? you had to coordinate with all of those agencies you are talking about, but also with the ukrainians and as you have been reporting, there were months of planning that went into this thing, how do you do that not have the week? you are absolutely right, you know as well as i do that it s hard to keep secret about anything. this was kept in a small circle as possible, inside our governments. i think inside the ukrainian government. that said, there were of course a significant amount of people who had to be involved and apprized to pull off an operation as complicated as this one was. people did their jobs and they were professional. they managed to keep the aaa secret until the president was on the ground which was a huge part of the plan for keeping it safe and secure. john, congratulations for a well execut
we are running out of ammunition, we are running out of what me, do you think they will leave or do you think they cannot leave? today or yesterday in ukrainian time, it was the day of commemoration of 100 it was the revolution of dignity from this day, the war was started nine years ago. today, russian opposition leader, he is seated in prison, he recognized that he needed to return back in a future life of russia, democratic life russia to the borders of 1991. and compensate to ukraine s losses during this war. the process started and i don t believe that putin started the full escalation war almost one year ago. simply because it was the 24th of february. it was because he started during almost the same day when the revolution of dignity wentz and when he started nine years ago. so, we need to finish this. you bring up an interesting point because a lot of ukrainians, when i say it s one year from the war, they say