ukrainian soldiers on key weapons systems that are being provided to help counter russia s renewed offensive in eastern ukraine. it said the training was being undertaken outside ukraine. matthew schmidt is a security expert and professor of the national security department at the university of new haven. thank you very much for being with us. what more do we know about what kind of training the us is ring. 50 about what kind of training the us is ring- us is ring. so they are doing a lot of training us is ring. so they are doing a lot of training on us is ring. so they are doing a lot of training on artillery, - lot of training on artillery, and what is called counter battery which is kind of radar that can identify russian artillery fire and direct ukrainianfire artillery fire and direct ukrainian fire there and a lot of comms work, the kind of warfare. they are figuring out more and more how to work with drones, but i should say the ukrainians are really innovative. that teachi
government has been doing with ukrainians both in ukraine and in the us for80 ukrainians both in ukraine and in the us for 80 years. they arejust moving in the us for 80 years. they are just moving faster and keeping them closer to the battlefield by doing it in germany and cycling out those ukrainians back into the battle. ~ ., ukrainians back into the battle. ., ., , ., ., battle. what does the pentagon want to achieve battle. what does the pentagon want to achieve by battle. what does the pentagon want to achieve by doing - battle. what does the pentagon want to achieve by doing this? i want to achieve by doing this? as kirby said, and want to degrade russia s military capability. they want to stop russia to have the capacity to engage in offensive operations so they are trying to, frankly, they are trying to bleed out russian ground troops, they are trying to cause the russians to waste their long range missiles and artillery and stuff. there is a lot of good intelligence that