hi there, everybody, it s 4:00 in new york, if war is hell as those who know say, then it has been a year of hell on earth for millions in ukraine, a year of anguish and grief of bravery and heroics, of death and destruction, and of pride. and hope still. that ukraine still stands today, one year after the war began is nothing short of a miracle, one of the ukrainians own making. my most conservative estimates, 8,000 civilians in ukraine are dead. 13,000 have been injured. 5 million have been at least temporarily displaced within ukraine, plus another 8 million ukrainians have been forced to plea abroad, the equivalent of every person in los angeles, chicago, houston, phoenix, philadelphia, and san antonio, all of them, suddenly end violently driven from their homes and lives. and all of that is to say nothing of military casualties that have been suffered, an estimated more than 10,000 plus ukrainian troops are dead, many of whom were school teachers or shop owners or utilit
any moment now, president biden will pledge to add american battle tanks too. that prompts a dramatic warning from russia. red lines are a thing of the past. plus, he did it too. the president s allies see a classified discovery at mike pence s house as a political gift to defuse a three-week-long white house crisis. and retribution on capitol hill. the house speaker kevin mccarthy refuses to seat a pair of democrats on the house intelligence committee. next up an attempt to remove another democratic lightning rod from the panel that oversees foreign policy. eric swalwell would be in the private sector and can t get a security clearance there, we are not going to provide him with the secrets to america. hakeem jeffries has 200 other straight to the white house and the president of the united states. yesterday marked 11 months since russia s brutal full-scale invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of th
Sending howitzers, and now the himars. in the fall, mr. putin decided he was going to hit civilian infrastructure with cruise missiles and iranian drones. air defense, not that it wasn t always an issue, stinger or air defense capabilities, more long range air defense capabilities became important. now what we re trying to do in critical months and helene talked about the importance of the next couple of months, she s right. we re trying to get ahead from what we think the fighting is going to be in the spring. ukrainians are preparing not only to defend themselves until the operations but conduct offensive operations of their own. and that s why we re taking battalions, and training them on combined arms maneuvers, this is the ability to fight in an open terrain, in an integrated way, using artillery, including air defense, and we re giving them training at the same time,
Civilians who are literally the target, the target of russia s aggression. poland is sending armored vehicles. sweden is donating infantry fighting vehicles. italy is giving artillery. denmark and estonia sending howitzers. latvia providing for stinger missiles. and finland recently announced its largest package of security assistance to date. you may remember i was asked a while ago what i thought was going to happen and i said, let putin know. he thought he would end up with a finlandization of europe. he has the natoization of finland. together with our allies and partners we sent more than 3,000 armored vehicles, more than 8,000 artillery systems, more that 2 million rounds of artillery and more than 50 advanced multilaunch missile systems and defense systems to counter ukraine s brutal
Enormous concerns every step along the way of russia and escalation which is, to your previous point about the nuclear saberrattling that you hear from russians, you know, that s one of the major deterrents that they have left for the united states and nato is threatening nuclear escalation. that s why you hear it. they don t have a lot of efforts to defer the united states. i like the testing the ice metaphor. we re sending howitzers, helicopters, anti-armor weapons into ukraine. have they irreverseibly crossed a line to be more muscular or is this one package at a time we need to look at it? look, i don t think that putin is under any illusions here. he understands that the united states and the nato alliance would like to bleed him as much as possible in ukraine. certainly that increases the security of nato members themselves. it s much less likely that putin has the capability to threaten