This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with my colleague and co-host Bill Rajo,

Senior Fellow Foundation for Defensive Democracies, continuing our conversation with FD's John Hardy.

We've been on the battlefield in Dunbass. Now we go to the negotiating table in Moscow, in Washington, in Kiev.

John, my question is about the arsenal. The president made a decision to disrupt the supply

chain in some fashion, most significantly to withhold intelligence from Ukraine until.

While the untils were met, Ukraine is now acknowledged it.

It will accept a 30-day ceasefire.

That interruption, that disruption of the arsenal supply, the interruption of intelligence,

is there any place in the battlefield, you can see that it made a difference?

And now that it's returned or said to be returned as it made a difference.

Thank you, John.

Right. So I think for material, the pause was too short-lived to have really, really any impact at all.

I think Ukrainians, given the general risk of another shut off, but maybe rationing munitions,

but the pause itself, I don't think, had much impact.

For intelligence, you know, obviously there cutoff has immediate effect, but again, because

it was so short-lived, I don't think those effects really accumulated into anything significant.

Some folks have claims that the pause contributed to Ukraine's withdrawing Kursk, I don't think that's true. I think

that the Ukraine's withdrew from Kersk for the reasons we discussed earlier, the main way

that difficult logistics in situation. But, you know, obviously it's great to see that

the pause is now over. The arms and intelligence is again flowing to Ukraine.

I think that's very important as Ukraine tries to put itself in the best position possible for negotiations with Russia.

There was a report within hours of the so-called shutdown of a massive drone attack on Ukraine.

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