Ground and zelenskyy wants to make sure he s got everything he can. and general, you can equip those. they are largely designed as a transport. equip them as a gunship. talking about a battle in here, a lot of this territory has a presence of russian troops or in separatist areas for eight years or more, presence of russian forces. what value do those particular helicopters bring to the ukrainian piece of this? okay, john, i told you what the russian commander wants to do. he wants to regenerate his force, get logistics in there and masses forced to break through. if i were the ukrainian commander, i m looking at three things. i want to ensure my forces flexible, moving around that 400-mile front in the donbas. i want to find ways to establish quick reaction forces as part of reserves to get to those key breached point very quickly and lighten my logistics resupply capability. if you have helicopters, not only can you arm the helicopters but put 20 guys in the back of
When they re going to attack, and the russians have to defend everywhere. what we re seeing every now right now as secretary austin pointed out is something that many ofs have been pointing out from the very beginning. the russian force is ill-trained they have not conducted rehearsals or exercises. and they have just unbelievable poor logistics resupply capability. so, all of those things are contributing to the russian force being static or stalled on the battlefield. there are reports this morning that the russian army has not only stopped north of kyiv, but the minister of defense in ukraine is saying that ukrainian defense forces have pushed them farther north out of some of the neighborhoods that our colleague clarissa ward was reporting from, like irpin and others. they re not only defending, they re being pushed back. in the south, you heard the defensive around mykolaiv, those are important and that s