finally sort of decided, you know what, it s not just up to the ukrainians. it s up to us, as well. we re here for you. we re sending back in our diplomats. ukraine is here for the long haul, according to the u.s. yeah. we saw that in the new package, the aid package last week, of another $800 million, which was just the kind of heavy weaponry that president zelenskyy has been asking for for some time. you heard how happy he was with that shipment. he said more of this, please. it looks like he is going to get it. ambassador taylor, i want to ask you, though, as we talk about weakening, perhaps crippling the russian military so it cannot expand, russia is talking about changing and expanding the war toward moldova. we hear overnight there were a couple of explosions in the breakaway republic in the eastern part of moldova. russia talked explicitly, its commanders said, yes, we want to move along the southern coast of ukraine to get to moldova and, to use their term, liberate the peop
their logistics. so, if ukrainian aircraft are able to strike these convoys and other logistical nodes, that will make a difference. it s not just the numbers of aircraft versus each other. i ll tell you what, you get some ukrainian pilots up there, the commander of the russian fleet should start to feel extremely uncomfortable about his base there. and also that big bridge that connects crimea to the russian mainland. those would be two very important targets i would go after one of immediately. the things that we have also heard from that parliament member from ukraine, sort of echoed what we heard from zelenskyy which is that this is just not our problem. obviously this is a threat to the european union, to european countries. he pointed out that in the breakaway republic of moldova, there s which is an area that is now controlled, and where there are based russian troops. and he said, america, the eu,