This is John Bachelors, a conversation with my colleague Colonel Chef McCausen,

the United States Army Retired Artillery Men, CBS News.

About the battlefield in Don Bass, are the Ukrainians getting what they need to fend off the Russian

superiority in artillery and heavy weapons and missiles raining down on the

Ukrainian cities. Also what is coming, what is promised, what about air?

Here is Colonel Jeff McCausen giving us a comprehensive look at what Ukraine has, what

it needs, to sustain the battle through the summer.

More of this tonight.

Yeah, I think they're getting the weapons they need.

There's still a question in my mind, which is very difficult to ascertain how readily and how able they are to

rapidly distribute the weaponry to the various locations throughout the

country. It's one thing to get it to Ukraine. It's a second thing to get it to the units that have to deliver the ordinance.

It clearly seems to me in the last week or so as we've gotten reports about Russian missile

and drone attacks against Ukrainian cities that once again we're seeing a very high percentage of

those weapons intercepted by Ukrainian air defense. So I think we've seen a dramatic

improvement in the air defense that the Ukraine has even over the last few weeks.

There's also reports that the Ukrainians are now able to come back up to a level

of artillery fire that they enjoyed, you know enjoyed earlier in the year.

For a while the Russians were firing 10 rounds for every one round that could be fired by the

Ukrainians.

And very shortly we should see the beginning of the arrival of the F-16s, which will also be important for controlling

air as well as air defense operations over Ukrainian airspace.

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