6:00 eastern. > . tonight a critical moment in the war in ukraine and a crucial one for country supporting it with russia potentially just a couple months away from a spring offensive defense contact group led by america top military leaders met at the base failed to get german sign-off on the allies foremidible tanks, president biden was asked about it today. poland s goal to send the tanks by germany s other countries to ukraine, and ukraine needs all the help they need. as for ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russian hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks. also today, the white house told reporters the treasure department will designate the russian bogner group, mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts a trans national criminal organization comes day after we learned that c.i.a. director burns briefed president zelenskyy on how the spring russian offensive martin play out. lots to start o
conflicts. the head of this is coming out, and and when you look at what they do, the brutality of what they ve done in ukraine, they are not only a criminal organization but really trans national i think that s important. general how effective is the vogner group well, they re effective by the way they keep throwing bodies at the end me. quantity has a quality all of its own anderson and what we ve heard from ukrainian forces is they are constantly under fire by the russians and they constantly have to fight just wave after wave of vogner group soldiers, the high percentage of them has been reported are criminals, they don t have a whole lot to live for. they just keep attacking and they keep getting shot if they won t attack, so what you re talking about is ukrainian forces on the front line that just have what s called a target