With armed forces that are simply not big enough to do so. and from the ukrainian not big enough to do so. and from the ukrainian point not big enough to do so. and from the ukrainian point of not big enough to do so. and from the ukrainian point of view, - the ukrainian point of view, president zelensky sein time and time again that he needs more weapons from the west. america indicating that they are going to give another several hundred million dollars worth of weapons, but how desperate is the situation do you think for the ukrainian military at the moment? think for the ukrainian military at the moment? ~ . . ., , ., , the moment? ukrainian military has fou~ht ve the moment? ukrainian military has fought very well. the moment? ukrainian military has fought very well, they the moment? ukrainian military has fought very well, they have - the moment? ukrainian military has fought very well, they have their - fought very well, they have their problems with resupply, but so
Made a significant contribution to the overall war effort even if eventually there will. the ukrainian military has fought very well. they have their problems with the logistics but so do the russians and the battle for donbas is taking place in a region where most of the best battle hardened unit in the ukrainian army have been based since the beginning. ukrainians are fighting on home territory but they are fighting against a russian force, significant elements are quite exhausted from the war so i think it is a new balance and i don t think we can predict where it will go, there will be a lot of confusion and a lot of attack and counterattack, gains of territory by one side and then by the other, but the battle readiness of forces will be important but this will also be a battle of supply. the russians have
Izyum corridor. you see the ukrainians pushing in kharkiv, another area down in here, and they try to push in at the command and control lines. if the ukrainians would be successful, it d be a major blow to the russians. you d have a race across ukraine right now. the russians trying to resupply into the accesses here in the east. for the ukrainian military, how quickly can they move supplies to the east to protect the troops that are putting up a stiff defense? i strongly doubt, at least at this point, the original strategy from donetsk, connecting up here to izyum, that the russians can pull it off. the ukrainian military has fought a very stiff defense there. with forces in mariupol, that ukrainian major we were talking about, still holding out and still fighting, they re tying up a lot of russian combat power they d otherwise be deploying north now. the ukrainians need heavy equipment. they need heavy equipment, heavy
With mounted warfare. when you look at this train in slovyansk, that will be the key epicenter. izyum is the access from the north west. here you ll see the separatist forces from luhansk advance over. in slovyansk down to here, you ll see them trying to advance. this is wide-open terrain. that s why those new weapons are super important for the ukrainian military. clint, obviously the ukrainian military has fought so valiantly and stood up so well to a much larger military out of russia. what does it look like in the east? does it have what it takes? does it have the manpower, the weaponry to put up a fight in the east as well in the way it did say around kyiv? yeah. that s really the question which we don t know. the big unknown is what is the status of the ukrainian military. we don t have a good handle on that. i m not sure the ukrainians often do. but one, the ukrainian military has interior lines of both
Behind him and immediately afte he he s headed we heard the cla and leona is on the ground. leona is gone. one of the soldiers asked why did you do it in the reply was, he was talking to him. the ukrainian government releasing lytic claims are intercepted radio recordings of a russian commander instructing the soldiers to take out civilians in a village outside it comes just a day after the mayor said more than 5,000 civilians have been killed in the city. ukrainian government officials have been pleading for more weapons to stop the carnage which the white house as they are receiving. for every russian tank. the unite states will have or has provided tian anti- take systems great if you factor in contributions from allies were almost at 90-1. ukrainian military has fought back fiercely coming out of