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i think when people hear american troops to the region, they sit up straight in the morning. what more can you tell us? that s right. we need to put this in very important context. there actually is already a very small group of u.s. troops who are in ukraine on this accountability mission. there s a couple dozen total u.s. military in the country. now, that includes the defense act, security forces and a very small group doing this accountability mission. what we have learned, that s carol lee and i, the department of defense, u.s. military leaders are looking at shoring up that very small group. so far they have only been able to visit a handful of locations outside of kyiv to check on the weapons stockpiles, making sure everything is getting to them and to the front lines. the u.s. military leaders are now looking to shore that up with a very small number of additional troops. we re talking single digits here. so it s less about this being
classified briefing on how the ukrainians are using u.s. military support to stymie the russian advance. concern that the longer the war goes on, u.s. weapons stockpiles will be depleted. defense analysts have sounded the alarm. the problem is we ve consumed so much supply in the first 10 months of the war, we ve essentially used up 13 years worth of stinger production and five years worth of jaaf production. the question is how will we resupply, restock the inventories? reporter: high-end precision weapons like the high mars rocket launch system have been a game-changer forcing russia to retreat. the pentagon secretly altered the high-mars rocketing system it s been sending to ukraine shortening the missile capabilities so it can t hit russia. the u.s. sent 20 high mars to ukraine. right maining 18 promised have yet to be produced by lockheed
have burned through more than a decades worth of weapons production in months. that story in just a moment. john: also america s top adversary china cozying up to saudi arabia. chinese president xi jinping greeted with fly overs and fanfares in riyadh. sandra: slash oil production and lingering resentment over the murder of jamal khashoggi. sandra: and jennifer griffin reporting on the strain of weapons stockpiles. john: jeff paul is live in kyiv. how is the country handling the winter season. looks cold there. john, as the temperatures continue to sit below freezing and the snow is still coming down, you have a lot of people, especially here in kyiv, who are
stinger missiles that have been used to great effect in ukraine, highlighted his concerns about u.s. weapons stockpiles and the immediate to ramp up production. the need to ramp up production. the problem is we have consumed so much supply mt. first ten months of the war, we ve essentially used up 13 years worth of stinger production and 5 years worth of javelin production. so the question is, how are we going to resupply, restock the inventories. reporter: senator joni ernst addressed thish shaw of some republicans the issue of some republicans wanting to cut back on military aid to ukraine, explaining the danger of neo-isolationism and why the u.s. has to help ukraine firmly beat the russians. we should be pounding the bloody hell out of the russians through the ukrainians so that they can t pop their head back up and come back in another 5-10 is years. 5-10 years. if we re not helping the ukrainians win and is window