to be able to hopefully identify and stop incoming russian artillery. the u.s. is providing hundreds more of the switchblade s, we ve talked about those in the past, these are these loitering munitions which basically means, it s an explosive that can fly in, it s unmanned, it can loiter or hover over a target and then literally fall down on it or target it. a munition explodes. these things are so powerful in some cases they can even take out tanks. speaking of tanks, the u.s. is providing even more of the javelin anti tank missiles. so you re right, these are the kinds of weapons, and sort of defensive capabilities like the radars, that the ukrainians are really going to need for the coming fight in the donbas officials believe that that could begin literally in a matter of days. so there is a real effort on the part of the biden administration to get this equipment to ukrainians as quickly as possible, chris. yeah, i don t know if we have the map of where the occupation, but there
really going to need for the coming fight in the donbas officials believe that that could begin literally in a matter of days. so there is a real effort on the part of the biden ministration to get this equipment to ukrainians as quickly as possible, chris. yeah, i don t know if we have the map of where the occupation, but there s a switch here and this is a sort of second act of this war. the first was this invasion in which russian forces were offensively attempting to gain ground as they marched into, hopefully they wanted to take kyiv and other places. and ukrainians were repelling them. now, as you can see on your screen there, throughout the southeastern part of the crimea and kharkiv. you have the russians essentially have a swath of the country occupied, the ukrainians hope to retake. which means they are now going to be offensively trying to take back territory which is a harder task than what they face before. that s right. so because, and for a couple of