shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture, and this has to be really, really good. starts april 20th on d, w. ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the pentagon is reviewing photographs of leak documents that it says appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material about the war in ukraine. some of those papers suggesting ukraine is just weeks away from running out of ammunition for it's russia made air defenses. also coming

up chinese warships and fighter jets in circle taiwan for 3rd consecutive day of military exercises. beijing saying that it is a warning for the island after it's president met with a tom u. s. official. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. a collection of leak to u. s. intelligence documents suggest that ukraine's air defenses could soon run out of missiles. the reports dating from february appeared on social media sites and appear to detail u. s. and nato aid to ukraine. their content suggests that the u. s. has been spying on both russia and ukraine's military and gathering intelligence on its nato allies. the u. s. justice department is scrambling to find the source of belief

with official saying russia or pro russian supporters are likely behind it. from our let's bring and ben hodges, former commanding general of the u. s. army in europe and senior adviser with human rights 1st in frankfort. general ha, just thank you so much for rejoining us here on the program. these reports suggesting that ukraine is just weeks away from running out of missiles to support its air defense network situation. sounds dire, is it? well, sir, thank you. yes, of course, it is significant. and in the ukraine is running low on their air and missile defense systems. and ammunition for those systems. and it highlights the fact that we need to help ukraine deny sanctuary for russia in crimea, another occupied parts of ukraine from which they are launching aircraft and drones

and missiles. so part of this is the need to get them more ammunition, but also to deny the sanctuary from which russia is able to last. there's a tax the late documents. general hodges also suggests that there is concern that that person could use any weakness here to use is fighter jets, has considerable air power to change the course of the war. do you share that will turn? yeah, that would be that would be a concern. um, but i think that 1st of all, the russian air force has not impress me for the last 14 months, even though they had huge numerical superiority. it's clear that they don't have the training or the ability to really achieve air superiority. this is something that the german air force, british royal air force, us air force. we would have done this in the 1st days of any conflict, especially with that kind of numerical superiority. the russians were not able to

do that. so it's not just because of the brave and very competent, ukrainian air defense. it's because i don't think the russians really know how to do it, but, but general, how does that mean that the whole point here though, is that if there is a break in that defense, could there be a window for putin and don't? these leaks essentially give him a bit of a playbook now on how to have a window to defeat the ukrainian military. well, to be honest, there, i think the russians already knew all this, this, this is information that's come to light for us. but none of this will be new to the russians or to the ukrainians. so yes, of course there's a vulnerability if we're not able to help you crane get more munitions or more systems for their air and missile defense. but i think they will have already anticipated what those vulnerabilities or the and again, i think that there are other ways to, to prevent russia from exploring

a vulnerability. and that really is about denying them the places from which their attacks are being launched. that means crimea, that means dumbass that ships at sea and to that to that end, ukraine has very much for calling for fighter jets to support its own air power so far. only poland we know, and slovakia have delivered a fighter jets to the country. meantime, germany, the us have dismissed calls to send f sixteens. just back in january, chancellor sholtes even shot down such calls as a rational in light of what we know now, what is your message to the german chancellor? your message, the u. s. president. i don't understand why the american, the u. s. administration and the german government and others still stopped short saying we want ukraine to win. and we're going to give them the things that they need to win. i mean, we're talking about thousands of ukrainian civilians that have been killed by these

missile attacks. they're, they're not going after ukrainian defense is or one of the targets. why. why is it so difficult for us to go ahead and take that next step to provide the capabilities that would help protect thousands of european civilians? that's what this is about. and so whether it's f sixteens or longer range, precision weapons, the things that are needed to help stop russia from being able to kill so many innocent people. i think the united states, germany, others need to do more. but it really comes down to what do we want ukraine, when are we just trying to drag this thing out. so then, given that, how do you assess ukraine's potential? it's been widely reported unexpected. that they could now be poised to launch a fresh spring offensive. they're getting new, more modern, more capable tanks. how do you expect this to play out over the next month? so i think right now, despite the concerns that you and i are discussing this morning,

we actually are in what i would call the com before the storm. the ukrainians are stopped, russia, russia has no other offensive capability, nothing with which they could launch a new offensive, the weapons that they're pulling out of storage in our about my age, which would be $65.00. ok. so i think they are, they are transition into a defense to try to hang on to what they have ukrainian journal staff has done a very good job of preparing for this. what will be a camera offensive when the conditions are set? that means whether on the ground is tra mainly when they have done enough training and they have built up the logistics. and i think we're going to see an attack that will be very professional, very effective. and its purpose will be to, i believe, isolate crimea, and set the conditions for the eventual liberation of crimea. ok later this year,

later this year. just quickly, before we go, i'd like to pick up on what you just said there. general hodges, because you have, in general, been very optimistic about ukraine's ability to repel the russian invasion. and even martin crimea, earlier, a couple of months ago, you said that you expected that to happen by some or do you stand by that the about the end of august of ukraine will have been able to liberate crimea if, and i've also included this can if we provide them the long range precision weapons that they need to do that. yes, absolutely. they can do them. and hodges retired us, the tenant general, thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise and that perspective, we appreciate it. thanks for the privilege. chinese fighter johnson war ships are simulating sealing off taiwan on the 3rd and last day of its military drills. the joint sword exercises an angry show. a 4th following

a meeting between taiwan president and senior us politicians. ty pay has condemned the exercises and washington has called for restraint, saying that it is monitoring beijing's actions closely. a spring indeed of your correspondent william gang to william. it's the 3rd day of china's drought. what has the day brought so far? so today of between 6 am and 10 am we have detected another within 50 chinese, other fighter to operating around taiwan. and more than 30 of them have once again crossed the median line of the time went straight up and also intruded. the south western, the, at the same time, there are concerning information coming out confirmed by the defense ministry saying the china carrier group. the san don't has, in fact participated in the exercise on the western pacific. the important thing

about this development is the eastern side of time when used to be considered as the saved zone for its military to regroup and also to recuperate. but now that china is able to, in fact, launch its military from the east side. that just means that the safe though is no longer exist and at the same time, this is the passage where a potential us support will have to go through. so china is definitely trying to test its ability to deny the us support. in the case of a potential invasion of taiwan and in another development, william the u. s. navy said one of its worship, sailed through the south china, see what more can you tell us about that? so once again, we saw this response from the united states that they've been doing a lot over the last few years when ever china has a very large scale military aggression towards tying one the so through their military new naval vessels, through the south china sea or the town one straight,

they call this the freedom of navigation operation and this time it's similar. but the difference is that last august, when close the visit at m, china launched a one week military exercise around time. one of the us did not, in fact engage in such a navigation operation, but this time they decided to do it. i think it's just to show that they considered the latest round of military exercise around time. one as more important and probably more threatening than last one. so, you know, when we look at the bigger picture here, william, do you think that, that tomorrow things go back to the way they were before? have these drills been different this time around? if they change something, i think they have fundamentally changed the way that china decided to respond to any high level engagement between taiwan and the united states. we see that this is already the 2nd time that the, you, the chinese mills read decided to launch this kind of large exercise encircling

taiwan, following a meeting between time when president and the us house speaker, you know, just within the last year. and so i think if we look at this trend and then this could just become a new routine that the chinese decides to implement and to try to deter and discourage the us and tie one to continue to engage in this kind of meeting. and i think it's really up to type in washington to decide if they still want to continue this kind of high level engagement and support. and, you know, like i think cooperation he w correspondent, william yang. thank you. and you the in the bonus like a munch and lava arrested, an alarming form slum beating both fork for their 1st when in 6 games and denting the wolves. european ambitions in the process. allison fire, set up marcus toronto to head in glad bus 2nd goal. and 63 minutes and ceiling to

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