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hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, re ....
But as i mentioned, logistics is a big issue. right now, they re having to evacuate all their equipment all the way to poland. now, alisyn, victor, if your car broke down in atlanta, you wouldn t take it to chicago to get fixed, so the problem is that they don t have the capability to fix up front. we don t have maintenance expertise that are training the ukrainians on how to use this new equipment that we ve given them, and they don t have the repair parts. w what we need to do is put some sort of facility in the middle of ukraine here, and push supplies, push technology and push training to the soldiers that so desperately need it on the front. that s totally understandable, especially when you make that analogy to taking your car from atlanta to chicago. that, we understand. we got that one. general, let me ask you about president zelenskyy and his assertion that his country s forces will chase russian forces to the border. the russians aren t just going to roll over and then ....
Profound reflection of our national power. our ability to protect troops, supplies and equipment across the globe is unparalleled and we need to bring all the forces to bear of that power to help these people and to help relieve the humanitarian crisis. it is all about ukraine. if ukraine falls, then i think we re going to have problems in the baltics, we re going to have problems with hungary, problems with romania, poland, et cetera. if we can put up a fight and leverage the incredible will of the ukrainian people and sustain them and empower them and push supplies that they need to be able to do that and to put up a fight, that s how we make sure we carry the day. brigadier general steve anderson, appreciate your insight this morning. thank you. yeah. thank you. the desperate journey to escape war, very real, as you have seen in the last several days across ukraine. just ahead, you ll hear from ukrainians struggling with this harsh heart breaking reality, ....