I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Bill Rajo, a senior fellow of Foundation for the

Defense of democracies and we're joined also by foundation for the defensive democracies

John Hardy, dragging Ukrainian war for us and we turn to the American side.

John, the headlines are Congress moves. The House of Representatives after roadblocks for months

has stepped aside and moved the package to the Senate side which is expected to approve.

However the details here this is

London reporting. The main aid request from Ukraine to other allies in recent

months have been for air defense missiles to protect the country's cities from Russian attacks and shells to use on the front line in the east.

The next package is likely to include Attackums missiles, which have already been sent in

limited quantities to the front line, and Patriot missiles for Ukraine's air defense.

The most recent round of aid, which was drawn from savings in the existing Pentagon, a budget included munitions for High Mars.

All of this speaks to high-tech front-line stuff, air defense,

the cities have been pounded, the electricity grid has been

pounded. The question is is it enough are we looking at a band-aid here and

your assessment of the battlefield the Russians have been acting extremely confident not only on the

front line but also their defense industry going 24-7 and building up a sizable strike force.

So what is your measure of this at long last package?

Is it adequate or is it a band-aid?

Well, I think it's coming in the nick of time. Ukraine as we mentioned

earlier is suffering from pretty severe shortages of artillery,

ammunition, air fence, interceptors, men, a whole host of things really protected mobility things like

M 113 armor personnel carriers so the new package from Congress will allow disbursements of immediate aid from the US under so-called

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