you will remember for the defiant stance made by the ukrainian forces at the start of the invasion, there s new video of a russian helicopter being destroyed by a ukrainian missile strike. ukraine says its forces have destroyed multiple russian assets on the island in recent weeks and that a russian support ship that is named for a famous soviet athlete is on fire, being towed away from the island. a claim that we should note cnn has not been able to verify. cnn does have new reporting that the intelligence community has now launched an internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries. this comes amid criticism that officials failed to make an accurate assessment in afghanistan and in ukraine. joining us now this morning is cnn s katie bow little lis one of the reporters who broke this story as well as david sanger who is a white house and national security correspondent at the new york times. thank you both for being here this morning. katie, i w
satellite images that tells the story here. i want you to look at this. these are pictures, satellite pictures now, of two of three of the bridges around kharkiv that have been destroyed, it is believed it was the russians that destroyed these bridges as they were retreating to keep the ukrainians from following them. the ukrainian military has been in hot pursuit of the russianes in this area and making key gains. again, i could show you on the map where this is, it s kharkiv. now, it s not the same story elsewhere in the country. if you look at what s happening in donbas, yes, the ukrainians are doing well up here in kharkiv, but the ukrainian military says they have lost ground in rubizhne which is one of these key cities in the luhansk region. ukrainians say they have lost a foot hold there. there s been intense fighting in the city s industrial outskirts and now it does appear that the russians are in control. and on snake island which
conducted on how they find out about what this intelligence is about the fighting power of these foreign militaries? what the intelligence community is looking at specifically is how they assess the fighting power of another military. how they determine, how they predict, how that military is going to perform when it is faced with another military on the battlefield. the reason for this is because they ve gotten it pretty dramatically wrong nice twoois in the last year. in afghanistan they overestimated how long the u.s.-backed afghan forces were going to be able to hold kabul against the assault from the taliban, the prevailing estimate was six months to a year, obviously it was not even until the united states had left the country before the government fell and before the military collapsed. in ukraine the opposite, they underestimated how well the ukrainian military was going to be able to withstand the assault from the russian forces. the initial prevailing assessment in the earl