strike on the ukrainian training base near poland, it may disrupt shipments after russia warned it will view any weapons deliveries as, quote, legitimate topic targets. jen or if griffin is at the pentagon with more on this. jennifer, is there a sense at the pentagon that the russians were after nato resupplying the ukrainian government? reporter: well, certainly a symbolic target, and it hasn t been a secret that the u.s. and nato have used that base for years going back to 2015. it was very popular among codells when congressional leaders would go and visit. but let s go back and look at the timeline of what happened. shortly after the white house announced it had authorized another $200 million in security assistance to ukraine, assistance that goes overland to ukraine from a variety of border crossings from nato article v countries, russian deputy foreign minister warned that russia would target these
crying. and, frankly, i think it s something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries, including the united states, they should see how he died. he didn t die a hero, he died a coward. jon: fox news team coverage. kevin corke is standing by at the white house, but first, national security correspondent jen ebber if griffin live in our jennifer griffin live in our d.c. bureau. reporter: the u.s. military and cia had been watching this compound five miles from the turkish border for months. eight special operations helicopters flew over highly contested terrain. the president and his national security team watched the operation in realtime from the situation room. it began at 5 p.m. eastern. the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part for the special operators. they flew low and fast for an hour and ten minutes and came under fire as they approached the target but not from the