his own, obviously with his fighting on the ground, what happens next with all of this? well, you know, the skies are still being contested over ukraine. russia has not achieved air superiority. maybe they have the upper hand, but still ukrainian fighter planes flying and the russian air force has not been the major element in this war so far. there s a lot of things that nato and the west are doing to try to atrit, cause attrition against the russian air force. stinger missiles, for example. actively, i think, all the nations in eastern europe that have soviet legacy fighters, older mig fighters that the ukrainians already know how to fly, i think those nations are trying to find ways to get those airplanes into the hands of ukrainian pilots who have lost their own planes without intervening directly in other
like macron to pick up the phone and call putin and maybe president xi and say we want you both to abstain. putin is not winning this fight, he is losing this fight and look at ways to say well, where is my off ramp, and my off ramp with the economic problems, if the united nations comes in as a world body and says it s a u.n. no fly zone, keep nato out of the flight, high risk, of courses t, perfect plan, no, no plan is perfect but there is a way to do and at least explore it. john: interesting, and we go to the south, most of the action on the part of the russians. they have moved past kherson, heading toward another city which follows the road into odesa. i assume the russian plan is to surround the back part of odesa,
we said that if president putin invaded ukraine we would increase our support for ukraine s ability to defend itself while imposing swift and severe costs on the kremlin. that s exactly what the united states and our allies and partners are doing. that was the focus of our ministerial meetings today with nato allies, with the g7, the european union, as well as in my discussions with nato secretary general, with the e.u. commission president, with the e.u. council president. we want our alliances to be strong enough to meet any threat. that s why from day one president biden made reinvigorating the alliances and partnerships foundation of foreign policy. why the secretary of state, i have come brussels, home to nato and the e.u., more than any other world capital and new ways to bring coalitions and allies and partners together. now we are seeing why that work
matters. at nato we were joined by the ministers of finland and sweden, e.u. high representative, united king and canada and never before have nato and the european union and other partner nations worked so closely together. this is a new kind of cooperation and will bring this to bear not just in this crisis but in the years to come. and our european allies and partners are stepping up to lead in unprecedented ways. first time nato has activated and deployed parts of its response force. several nato allies, including the u.k., germany, netherlands, denmark, spain, france, have sent troops and aircraft and ships to reinforce the alliances eastern flank. every nato ally is providing military or humanitarian aid to
0 biden has spoken with the president of poland. we are expected to hear from him at any moment. this as we learn vice president harris will be visiting poland on monday. also secretary of state antony blinken will hold a news conference in brussels. thank you so much, brit hume, for joining us on outnumbered. america reports starts right now. has to be separated. we got border and then had to say good-bye and he had to go back. john: fox news alert to kick off america reports this friday as ukrainians fight for their survival and heart wrenching moments from the battlefield. john roberts in washington, hi again, sandra. sandra: hello to you. sandra smith in new york. fox news learning moments ago the white house will be sending vice president kamala harris to poland monday to meet with a bipartisan congressional delegation and secretary of state antony blinken is in brussels. he will be speaking moments from now. we ll have his remarks for you. all this happening after m