is it we're a tough call to your team security basically depends to 90 percent from the us out to the hotel commentary dogs april 4th on dw, the, the situation and ukraine is growing increasingly dire as you creating and soldiers struggling to maintain their defense lines against russian aggression. so does that mean that the russian president is edging closer to his goal of feeling large fossil fuel cream is pulled and believes he can simply re about the conflict. he has miscalculated. strong words from germantown, smell, wound off charles in support of fuel trade. however, they come out of time when his own body has emphasized the need to freeze the walk . the questions remains of costs whose interests what this really? so ukraine or perhaps pull them down to the point we ask as quote and sold skin

ground. how is the gentleman me on the west? just fox, the hello and welcome to to the point i'm. you shall have us on here in berlin, and today my guest, newton and juno, ben hodges, he's pharma, commanding general united states army. europe, announced german off of globe 6 futures, security and defense council f. s. b c. next on the bottom of the we have mazda and lemmings senior editor off the ball in bass newspaper, their dog and speaker. and usually i've been to ankle. she is associate professor at god as in khaki, national university ukraine. and was the thing, the search of, of the center for east europe in an international study. he's always been putting

in a very long bathroom to us. you didn't, let's start with, do you know, ukraine is facing shortage of both weapons and soldiers. how long can to really sustain? yeah, actually it's a huge problem because for example, i have a nephew in military forces, so few clean and they're almost on the 0 bought a lot. and then they complain in that the, even the unit needs a lot from a nation now. so it's a huge problem. and the problem that for example, the eastern area. so if you play like harv, give my home see to, in my home region. and so my region under the constant shalon and that, that's and then a lot of civilians who died and the who need to be will create that. so it's a huge challenge for your queen and not the only military bottle. so for, let's say a few shows for a tenant ship, increa many teddy on weight is as well. so this constant shelling and the lack of

munition, they lack real kids. they lack air defense systems. what does that mean for they have more on it over there. yeah, it's also a great problem because people are overdue about 2 years being in the, in the model field. so now you clean young parliament is working on, on the new legislation to mobilize more people and the kind of assessment that we need, the 500000 more. and the, the more all of not on the inside the army bought the, the level of, of social profusion is also decreasing. now. so a lot of sort of way of showing that if so less tries to official let's to as things and advocacy himself and people really gets entire, to even volunteers, even those ones, battlefields, and those core leaving on the, the cost of all over the one bench i'm a military point of view. what do you think?

how long can the soldiers really hold depositions? well, i think it's important to step back from the map a little bit. and, and keep in mind that after 10 years of war for the russia having every advantage, they still only control about 18 percent of ukraine. the russian air force has failed. its 2 most important task, which is to gain total, control the air and also to enter dic, the logistics bringing ammunition from poland into crime. they haven't destroyed a single train or conroy. one 3rd of the black sea fleet is now under water and they're having to pull back from surface total of the russian oil and gas infrastructure is being hammered every week. um, almost 10 percent of it has already been hit. the sanctions are having effect on russian rail. they can't get lubricants and spare parts so. so it's is too simple to just focus on have dave or trenches in not folk and not think about the broader

strategic picture of where we are. we know from history, the oars, a test of will ukrainian soldiers have far superior will to russian soldiers. there is no russian that wants to be there. the test, the real test now is logistics and who can win this industrial competition? can it ukraine in the west or the russians? i think we will eventually witness. you seemed really optimistic, but what you can really needs right now, rolls of funds and the $60000000.00 funds that us as not realizing do you think that the congress where minus to release that finally? so this is embarrassing to me that the united states is failing on a critical task here, especially when most of the congress, including most republicans, actually support ukraine. most americans support ukraine. so this is being held up for domestic reasons by mr. trump and ukrainians, or are paying the price for it. i have to say is that my president who's done

a good job otherwise has got to do a better job of explaining to americans why this matters to us. go to the american people. so they didn't, they put pressure on their congress when say why, why are we helping ukraine? so, america still discussing germany, meanwhile, has said another 500000000 euros to a little too late. there's a good question. i mean, if, if it comes to, to total sums, germany is the 2nd biggest contributor for the, in ukraine and military and civilian assistance as well. so you can argue with the, with the, with the amount of money that is given in relation to, to your, uh, to the people you have or to the budget you have so that it's of the middle ground, something like price $12.00 and something i, i would not say it's too little too late. they, they are supporting the ukraine. not to the extent in some, sometimes wishes,

but the, but you have to see the, the, there, there's a new, as a new strategic tactics from the ukraine to the army. this is a protecting the infrastructure of a, of, of russia in russia itself, a rough injuries and things like that. so i think should be supported in doing that because this detracts the attention from the russians to many, many different places. they can't concentrate that the ad defends and defense systems on one place. so i think this is so this is something to have to watch very carefully to and with limited resources i ton, the ukrainian army is primarily focused on defending their positions against the russian forces. this is becoming increasingly challenging as the odd stuck up against them. let's take a quick look at what the situation is like on the ground. ukrainian soldiers in the donuts region are using ground. a multiple rocket launcher from the soviet era.

smaller slid or the room on it was there are few grenades, but not enough of them. beautiful, not as much as at the beginning when we could really fire and stop the enemy, no more. no, no support. in the east, things are looking bad for you crate on several fronts. me, a hockey civilians are building more defenses to prevent russians from breaking through. russia is also heavy bombarding the south. at least 20 people were killed in a recent attack in odessa to these imperial emissions will continue to watch like the way a lot to be. and will not stop with fronts in germany. it's better to stop it to a new cray then later on a global scale. unimportant global number. but ukraine isn't just slower now. munitions, it's low on soldiers and the ones who have been fighting for 2 years are exhausted . do ukrainian troops still have a chance?

been your thoughts? do they have a chance? well, that was the most depressing uh, doom or narrative. i've heard and i don't think it accurately portrays what's going on. of course are building trenches outside of our that we should been happening years ago. of course are doing this. of course, soldiers are tired. clearly ukraine has got to fix the personnel system there. there are probably 2000000 ukrainian women and men that are military age. so the government, not the army, the government has to do the job of changing the necessary law, but also convince women and man that if you come into ukrainian armed forces, we will not send you to the meat grinder and we will only put you in the right uniform, you'll get training and then you'll be put in a unit so that you can do rotation. they've got to do that. but the, you know, there's,

there's another side in this war. there are no russians that want to be there. and when we talk about app div go mean people talk about div could like it was stolen, grid of disc is as far in the east as you can possibly be in ukraine. so they're the and the russians after a month. mean that happened during unit security carver. so a month ago, they finally took a difficult to losing $40000.00 soldiers and they've only advanced one or 2 kilometers from there. so the russians, i don't think, have the ability to exploit whatever success they are having. let's bring in some data that now rush amount of just to produce 3000000 units of opportunity i, munitions annually. while the entire need to alliance can only produce $1200000.00, that's less than half of what restaurants producing. so despite all of the sanctions and everything, how is it that russia is student able to maintain this? yeah, so it's a great question. um, obviously there are holes in the sanctions. i mean, there are things that are still getting through from india, china to north korea,

obviously of. so that's, that's a part of it. but you know, war is not a math problem. it's not like they made very 3 times this. what matters is what capability you have, where you need it. and if germany and so like a taurus is equal to hundreds of artillery rounds and, and with the precision or the us, a tech comes to 300 kilometers a truck comes. every single russian headquarters, artillery piece, logistics site in russian occupies, you create every one of them could be hit. that's, that's more important than how many causes of our clear brows they have it's the precisions would make such a difference where you come to the us in a bit. you know, your pin commission has triples, transporting profits generated by frozen russian central bank us. that's true, you cream and drums and has said and echoed it is going to be an unprecedented violation of international law. so how is it i feel really going to respond if that

was to happen? well actually i, i, it's, so what have pop you out of mind the russian politician and diplomats, and about the violation of international law a could try to do the fighters, the countries, territories, torture and people who commit to the right. so yeah, it is, it is a form that is actively advocated by your queen and the government, but that's, but it as well because of me here are some assess which will frozen. but the, the, the point that the, this money us to up the rate is by the come through school for the visa, the money and you create needs not only the supplies so far, i'm a nation that is a huge demand of a. now they reconstruction because we have like all 5000000, no for internally displaced people. there are of people more than 2000000 of them, lost the ability to leave and the in the, the communities. so we need to repair residential areas. we need to,

to infrastructure in the, it's a huge demand. the world bank assess language goes, which was released out by to on. so i brought it 2 months ago. it was more than 453000000000. so the return needed to pay, you're going to put it in context here. we're talking about $2.00 to $3000000000.00 euros per year, which is nothing at the bottom of the course. but the from the point of view of your putting facility. so right there kind of developed as a plan from utah pen commission and the, as you put in there are now is a future movement to of, to develop all the plans and projects for the construction. so it's community based reconstruction is reconstruction of building back better, and now people even would say more or less safe for a region. so the develop then, how to, you know,

increase the capacity to give issue monitored and responsive pressure still will be attacking and it's will up, back again and again. so it's on this, the show will attack again, i'm mazda of german defense minister bodies custodians. he recently emphasized that the rest has to be prepared for any situations. you said. now we saw last week, that's within trip and that, that new to a weapons and he said weapons are there to be used. so is the last really preparing for the last at the moment? it's at least it seems they have prepared for it. uh, there was a report in the new york times back to, i think it was in the, in the ultimate, in the fall of 22. when they really expected that the russians would use uh, nuclear weapons in ukraine. and they said the, the, the biggest problem i have to come in and they set the, the like ability would be above 50 percent. so what strikes me in this report is

that the answer would lot of being nuclear, but conventional. this is something that the russians read but the here for the it with a lot of attention because it helps them the own calculation at the even though they might use atomic weapons. the west like not answer accordingly. so so yes and no booting is using the, the atomic threat as a, as a way to, to, to point to european countries, especially the germans because they are most afraid of them. um, but if you're, if you're focused on the like ability, then you can just race the white flag and so we give up on the, on the other hand, if you ignore the likability that might lead to, to dangerous dynamics that, that you don't want to want to have so this is always if you fight a soup and nuclear power that's,

that's the dilemma your end. so how do you think the rest would respond? because you said white flag. now i'm talking about about the story is i have his go to you and he sees nobody really knows where the over and russia will attack anybody in your know. so what we have to learn as allies in europe is to be prepared for any threat, especially for the threat which comes from fulton specially i any of these are extremely strong. what's the reason strong words in that? i would say it makes a difference. for example, if you're a member of nato not so to nato has to be prepared for any kind of threats against a native country because it's a, it's in, it's in the lines. um, does that include every other country in the region? i would say no, because nato is in the tech of nato is, is article fights every other country has to. it has to, has to come to help in any kind of threat is what do you think about threats? i mean, what can happen?

just sure. in principle, yes, but what does it mean in practice? i, i can't see that. oh, defense ministers saying that moving on from defense minister. let's 1st take a quick look at what's really happening in germany. so chances are all of charles had promised a sizing vendor, a turning point, a historical shift in the countries of foreign and security policy in order to deal with russia. under charles, germany has indeed become the 2nd largest donor of veterans and munitions to ukraine, right off to the united states. but has charles really managed to keep his promise leaders from his own father to the s p d, all suggesting otherwise. this is a sneak ended, sorry, this isn't the time that we know the time you talk about how to wage will, but also about how to reasonable and end it lay time on space. so all the end, he kind of these suggestions made by the top says s p. d. policy has triggered strong reactions and caused the green policy for administer babble to shake her

head. she's referring to the you and report on russian will crimes and ukraine that you can, but i believe the anyone who reads this report will not bring up freezing the conflicts. again. this report reads like an absolute horace story. these basically an absolute test one, then comes criticism from within the s p d defense minute step. his story is agrees with his publish colleague. if i were to freeze of the conflict, whatever form it would take, would mean it only helps preteen in the end, and we'll put in have a chance to shop together with french president my con and publish prime is the task he has empathetically pledged to supply ukraine with more width and how determined is germany to support ukraine? how do you see that buttons on freezing the wall are really mean that boots and gets to keep whatever he was occupied so far? exactly what it means and bad luck for the millions of ukrainians that are in the

occupied territory, the thousands of ukrainian children that have already been kidnapped and deported. we already know what happens in ukrainian villages when the red army shows up. so bad luck for them. i guess it's astounding to me that a senior german political official would say something like this, which i think is strategically illiterate. now the problem is the united states and the german government have got to make it clear that we weren't ukraine to when i'm proud the united states and germany the top to in terms of dollar or euro value. but that's, that's not the metric that matters. what matters is, have we do weird what our objective is and how much progress have we made towards that objective is, is not a, it's not a test of who gives the most. if that was the case, then estonia and look to any, it would probably be right at the very top because of the percentage of g d p. it's about giving what's needed to win. and that clarity, i think,

is what's really missing. but what's us winning mean that the russians will just pull out from any kind of occupied territory? and so we give up police or i don't know if they do it that way. that'd be great. but the ukrainians have to inject them back to the 1991 border that's that's present. jalencia said that everybody recognizes that's the southern border. so the chinese are watching to see are we serious when we talk about sovereignty, human rights, respect for international law? because if we fail here, we're frankly, it's much easier to support ukraine, then it will be adding the endo pacific region. then i think the chinese may make a terrible this calculation the way the russians did. it doesn't freeze mean that we did the uh, how long would you fight for this, for this kind of and that, that they, that the russians were pulled out of every kind of occupied territory. fries means we postpone the end result and, and talk about the stop of the war. postpone every kind of questions. absolutely,

the west can never give up the silver entity of shelf ukraine. everything like this . but try to find a supplement. let's say we may natal guarantees for the rest of your crane, but to have and will settle all the other questions related to point. so we ways to date, years with minutes process. so i don't know. i mean, this sounds me like the most nic didn't learn anything. minutes was not from the minutes process. yeah, i know, but minutes was not for, for nato guarantee. security guarantees for you. okay. okay. what so use and so germany would be willing to actually bet no more question. i'm just trying trying to argue what so what freeze might mean if you see it from the positive side? well, let's say it reminds us. yeah. that we already to try it to produce the conflict. then the after crania was acquired by 10 years ago. it's today. well, it was kind of a next by arrest consideration legally. so the ration of last was lead

a way to week, and your money actually increase its consumption alpha gas from russia to fault seems 2014. and of course, the kind of for rio and attempts to please the conflict. and during this time, russia just to begin is following, develop the uh, blo, how to attack auditor thoughtful to your brain. so it's really wary, challenging to believe that the russia will hold to the eyes, you know, the points uh, that could be reached julian on negotiation. i don't believe these. you're also talking at the time the leaders of you meeting in brussels for a 2 day summit. do you think anything concrete would come out of that? especially because it was just a few days back when need is off the volume. i try and make each other. yeah, i, i would say that the i a final for the european union, myself and the i call today to the utilization to ukraine and continue putting and

screwed his students and a little bit as that is. but we do understand that you look in union is note about defense and the, these kind of and assistance. so it would be nicer or it would be more clear for you creating an see if i may, to members will be more, let's say, let's see if i in the and guarantees to ukraine. that is why we could discuss whether there shall be any guarantees and how to close this conflict without any promises and the commitments from the maita. member est, it says to they'll be no point to talk about the pros and cons this. i think i see here different uh, both specters, also from ben and mazda. and when the leaders of the volume are triangle, very much all of the tried before unity. one could see the difference is that as well, do you think the unity is really going to work there because of my current and charles

are on completely different things inside of them. they, they face very different, a product in the old country, different dynamics. in principle, i would say um, okay, so i'll just don't say we need troops on the route. that would mccall suggested that might be a solution. but, but i'm not quite sure if even mccaul thinks about that in realistic terms. so front is now the only topic of power in europe since the great britain pulled out. so it has a certain kind of leverage that can have. so it kind of poll with the arguments, but i don't think they, um, the differences between mccaul and uh, and shoulds, the, the go to the core of the problem. they both agree to support the ukraine. the fronts could do better, i think, and supporting the shots can do better as in other terms. but,

but in principle they are, they are in one boat. but you did start with domestic politics. so does that mean that for both france and germany domestic policy is actually shaping international and security policy at the moment? to a certain extent? yes, i mean, and it drove any of your optical illusion if, if it is with the red, green and a yellow coalition has very, very different interest in this kind of thing. so a chance that has to look for it for its own government and how it works a lot. so domestic policy shaping international policy. that's all the time we have . unfortunately, i know it does really quick or if you're watching us on youtube, do let us know your thoughts. what do you attain to me on the rest should be doing . thanks for your time. goodbye the

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