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well, i asked him about the time line because even though the friends of the ukraine led by the united states have sent a huge number of weapons as we all know, it is a speed game now. it is a question of hurrying up, which is what zelenskyy said. i was trying to figure out whether he thought either the u.s. and its allies would have more staying power or russia, which believes it can wait out the united states. mr. president, i m interested in the time line today on the anniversary, you spoke to your own forces and you called for victory within this year. you have heard the western friends, your partners talk about as long as it takes. you know that the russian leader believes that time is on his side. why do you think that it s possible by the end of the year, and how do you assess the meaning of as long as it takes from your ukrainian perspective? ....
With john kirby with the national security council. admiral kirby cnn reported that china is leading towards providing russia with drones. if a transaction like that has taken place, what kind of action is possible if any? i don t want to get ahead of where we are right now, anderson. we have indications that they are considering that kind of assistance, but we haven t taken it off the table. they haven t acted on that. we re watching this as closely as we can. you ve heard secretary blinken talk about how he has relayed our concerns directly to his counterpart in beijing and that there would certainly be ramifications should they move in that direction. i want to stress we just haven t seen any indication that they ve made that kind of decision. there s reporting that it would be kamikaze drones in particular, maybe even given components to russia that they could then build their own, a certain number every month. if this was done through chinese ....
And there hasn t been any conversations between china and ukraine. nothing about ukraine without ukraine as far as we re concerned. admiral john kirby, appreciate it. thank you. some additional perspective from a lawmaker and retired marine who recently spent time in ukraine, massachusetts democratic congressman seth moulton serves on the select committee on strategic competition between the u.s. and chinese communist party. i spoke to him this evening. congressman appreciate you joining us. as you know, sources are telling cnn that china is considering sending drones and ammunition to russia. admiral kirby just said the biden administration is watching this closely. what s your level of concern right now? how would that change the dynamic of the war? look, my level of concern is high because we want this war to end, and china is going to prolong this war if they gave more aid to vladimir putin and russia and his illegal invasion. how effective do you think the drones that ir ....
Attack helicopters as well and combat trainer aircraft. all of those could make the iranian military more lethal, more capable, and more destabilizing to our friends and partners in the middle east. it goes both way. it s why, quite frankly, when we saw this relationship start to advance, we put it out there publicly, and it s why we did it again today. do you have an assessment of how beneficial these drones have been for russia, specifically the attack drones that have been used against the power grid and other targets? yeah, several hundred of them, and the russians, they struggled at first to learn the system, and they had some iranian traines on the ground in crimea helping them learn skpks after they learned and and got more proficient they were able to use them with a degree of lethality and accuracy, hitting civilian targets, mostly civilian infrastructure, and doing so because they re slow and low being able to try to evade air defense capabilities of the ukrainians. ....