defender and why things like anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles were so effective there. the fight in the eastern donbas is more like a fight in iowa or nebraska, large, flat fields, long fields of fire. therefore you need tanks and armored personnel carriers and artillery. a very different type of fight than kyiv. i think they can win in eastern donbas as well and reclaiming what russia has occupied but vital we get them the new and different kind of equipment promptly. we should have done it a month ago when it was clear russia would try to consolidate its forces in the east. gillian: ukrainians will need to achieve tactical victories in different parts of the country to strategically clinch this war. senator, i want to have you take a look at something from the wall street journal. ukraine s defense minister in a new op-ed says the u.n. is an enabler of russian war crimes. russia has done everything the
sure industry continues that trend. one of the things i want to brip the pictures of the russian forces back into play. a lot of people have talked about we haven t seen anything like this since world war ii, meaning this many armored vehicles, this many tanks moving. the ukrainians say what they believe will play out in the east will be as brutal as the tank wars, the ground wars of world war ii. do you believe that? absolutely. i think it will be a pitch battle, open terrain. true, long fields of fire from the russians but long fields of fire from the ukrainians. it s about pushing as much heavy equipment, artillery, tanks, helicopters, drones to enable the ukrainians to take the fight to the russians. the key town of krematorsk will control eastern ukraine. general, i appreciate your insights. up next for us juggling crises foreign and domestic, president biden accuses president putin of