can t resupply. this fight today, the shifting to the eastern part of the country is going to be primarily a fight for resupplying logistics, and i say that not as a logistician but it s hard to do especially over the very long supply line that ukraine will face coming in from the western part of the country all the way to the eastern part of the country, a span of about 700 miles. general, let me also then add a few more factors that have been mentioned for why donbas is different than what we ve seen so far. the pentagon points out that russia is familiar with the training in the donbas and russia has the vast majority of combat power available and u.s. official says russia learned from failures in the north. what does that all mean and add up to for this new phase, general? i disagree with all three of those presumptions. number one, they are not familiar with the territory to
low on their air-launched cruise missiles. taken together, what does this tell you? well, you re talking about an issue of resupplying logistics right now at this stage of the campaign, abby. it s on both sides. the russians have been using ammunition like crazy and on the battlefield they ve had real difficulty in terms of getting resupply operations. and that s one of the major factors that is occurring right now. ukraine has had what the military calls a target-rich environment. so they have been hitting all these forces with javelins. they ve been using quite a bit of stinger missiles against helicopters and aircraft. they ve downed almost 200 of the combined helicopter and fixed point aircraft going on over operating over ukraine. so the javelin, which you re showing right now, like you said, it s a very simple weapon to fire. it s a top-down attack method which means it comes in in the top of the tank and hits from