everything they need. the question of the f-16s is a very complicated one it s a very sophisticated airplane, sophisticated technologies on it, and it requires a significant maintenance program to go with it. all of that needs to be brought together. we are moving with our allies to bring to ukraine aircraft, fighter aircraft that they re familiar with. these are the russian makes and various models. those they know how to equip, those they re already trained to use. that would be the first way to go here. secondly, we need to keep in mind in russia has a very, very sophisticated air defense system, the s-400. it has a very, very long range. the question is would these planes be useful on the eastern front. probably not because the s-400s which are there along the russian border, can easily take
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ukrainian capital. unclear whether or not that was a ukraine aircraft, but certainly appeared to us as though it was possibly what these surface-to-air weapons were firing at. that lasted several minutes. you can see quite active here in the ukrainian capital over the past hour, over this past day. of course, as the u.s. and its allies say the russian offensive essentially remains bogged down, not advancing much towards the capital of kyiv certainly not for lack of trying. russians have a very, very large force especially to the north of the ukrainian capital, jim. fred, russian troops are trying to advance on kyiv. now at risk of being stalled because of a flooding. a dam north of the ukrainian capital apparently is flooding. reporter: yes. what more do we know about that? reporter: one of the many problems they are facing. a dam that apparently is flooding in the irpin river, an arm of the river, mighty river goes through the ukrainian capital. one hard to cross in any case.