assessment of the ukrainian army since february 24 in a recently published report by the royal united defense institute of research, a respected british analytical center claims that it was the professional and inventive actions of the armed forces, in particular, ukrainian artillerymen, and not the javelins of stingharich enlau, that played a decisive role in the defense of kyiv at the beginning of the war. of the army already in the first half of the year , the armed forces received several dozens of salvo missile systems, including himers and mars, two of which changed the course of the war accurately destroying targets located at a distance of up to 80 km, the transition of the ukrainian army to nato caliber 155 mm artillery was extremely important hundreds of artillery systems from partners, in particular the american em-77, the french caesars and the polish crabs reduced the fire superiority of the enemy, hundreds of armored personnel carriers, in particular the austrian burschmasters, helped liberate kharkiv and in tank complexes such as the legendary javelin did not knock out the enemy's tank p

royal united services institute. no, don't think so. what we saw yesterday is a significant defensive capability in the form times which has to be used with all of the other and military assets of the western provided, linking to fighting vehicles and artillery. and that will have real use come spring and summer when ukraine is going to go on the significance offensive in terms of the strikes through seeing if the last 24 hours, which has been striking needs civilian targets for months now. so i don't think that those 2 things are linked in terms of escalation of what they did in terms of the time commitment yesterday. and then on the 3rd and final points. yes, we're still taking some ground, but it's incremental. it's not much grounded. so no strategic value in the tank and very, very heavy cost for are you convinced then that when once we reach a certain number of tanks in ukraine, that we will see the gradient military then be able to not only hold these front lines, but be able then to push russian forces back, is that, i mean, are you convinced that it's going to happen? it's bee

royal united services institute. no, don't think so. what we saw yesterday is a significant defensive capability in the form times which has to be used with all of the other and military assets of the western provided, linking through fighting vehicles and artillery. and that will have real use come spring and summer when ukraine is going to go on the significance offensive in terms of the strikes that we're seeing as the last 24 hours, which has been striking the civilian targets for months now. and so i don't think that those 2 things are linked in terms of escalation of what they did in terms of the time commitment yesterday. and then on the 3rd and final points. yes, we're still taking some ground, but it's incremental. it's not much ground. it's of no strategic value in that bank and very, very heavy cost for or you could bids then that when once we reach a certain number of tanks in ukraine, that we will see the gradient military. they'd be able to not only hold these front lines, but be able then to push russian forces back. if the i mean, are you convinced that's going to happ

royal united services institute. ed: no, i don't think so. what we saw yesterday is a significant defensiveapability in the form of tanks, which have to be used with other military assets from the west like firing vehicles and artillery. and that will have real use come spring and summer when ukraine will go on significant offensive. in terms of the strikes we have seen over the last 24 hours, russia has been striking these civilian targets for months now. so i don't think that those two things are linked in terms of escalation, in terms of the tank commitment yesterday. and then on the third and final point, yes, russia is still taking some ground, but it is incremental. it is not much ground, it is of no strategic value, and they are paying a very heavy price for it. brent: are you convinced that once we reach a certain number of tanks in ukraine that we will see the ukrainian military then be able to, not only hold the front lines, but be able to push russian forces back? are you convinced that is going to happen? ed: yes, i mean, the ukrainian defense planners came up with a number, 300