the war is moving. it will be the battle of donbas. putin is committed to trying to connect crimea to donbas. and in their assessment, the ukrainian government s assessment, they don t have the weapons needed to fight that war. i m not a military expert, i don t want to pretend that i know but i hear from them thank you for what you ve done and we need more. and we should remember they need different kinds of weapons, heavy artillery, tanks, to fight this new kind of battle on an offensively way. they ve been fighting for six weeks. they ve probably taken much bigger casualties than we know and i think a lot of their equipment has been damaged. they need replenishment as fast as possible. mike, i m going to jump in. we re going to go to the pentagon.
brutality. and you ve seen it on display every single day of the last 46 days. the brutality that the russians are capable of. we re seeing it today. as you and i are talking here, you can see it today. so i think sadly we can all expect that those same brutal tactics, that same disregard for civilian life and civilian infrastructure will probably continue as they now focus in a more geographically confined area in the donbas. you heard the chairman talk about it last week, that it s his assessment and we believe he s right that this could auger in for a more protracted and a very bloody next phase here of this conflict. and i don t know i wouldn t
commander. new images show an eight-mile long convoy moving out toward the donbas. it includes command and control elements, a support battalion, enablers, rotary wing aviation and other infantry support. now in charge of the ukraine war, this general. officials say 11 people, including a child killed in more than 60 attacks this weekend. the mayor of the besieged city of mariupol says more than 10,000 people have died in that city alone. a meeting of the security council focusing on the impact of the war on women and
about, they re leaving kyiv not because putin made some magnanimous decision but because the ukrainian army is winning there. that s a fantastic piece of news. but the second piece of news is more alarming. they re redeploying to move to donbas. there s no doubt in my mind that putin is going to fight to try to connect crimea to donbas, and that s going to be a bloody fight that i fear is going to go on for weeks and months. and therefore, we have to provide more weapons and more sanctions. this is a long battle. we ve got to help the ukrainians to win. i agree with secretary blinken, as you were reporting. the ukrainians will win this fight someday. our not job is to help them win it faster and with less bloodshed. ambassador michael mcfaul, it s always great to have you on the show and to hear your perspective. thank you very much for being with us. coming up later this hour we re going deeper inside those sweeping sanctions from the white house. live with a member of the biden adm
forces have left that area. in addition to around kyiv there s a city just northeast of there called chernihiv. the russian military has also left from there. they ve moved up north into belarus, into russia with the u.s. assessment is that they re going to sort of refit, rework, figure out what s needed so that they can begin this sort of next phase of this offensive. the belief is that they will drive from north of ukraine around ukraine and move somewhere back into the country in the east. it s not clear where that will happen. there s some assessments it could be up toward kharkiv, it could be further south. but for this next phase of the campaign here, which is likely to focus on the donbas area in the southeast, hallie. courtney kube, staying on top of everything i know at the pentagon. courtney, thank you so much. ambassador mcfaul, let me fwet to you. let me take this in a couple of buckets. first your reaction to these military and diplomatic developments here, specifically