In what it delivered to ukraine. explain the significance of the howitzers as we expect more of an armor battle. if a lot of ukrainians say unseen since world war ii in the east. what we ll talk about linking on to what barbara just said. if i were in command of the russian force, i would be thinking about three things. force generation, logistics and massing the force. that s where this long-range fire comes in. what the russians want to do, general dvornikov wants to break through the lines in the donbas region. in order to do that, the russians always fire artillery first. and they fire it from ten kilometers, 12 kilometers away. that howitzer you just showed up there the 19er 8 has a range of 14 miles. and if they have a rocket projected assistile it will shoot around about 20 miles.