is through a gravity bomb by an aircraft or a cruise missile. i would argue the thing for the administration to do is bring the allies together now, talk about back channelling to moscow but say if we see a strategic indication you re pulling tactical nuclear weapons into the storage caps we re going to put an air cap up around ukraine and shoot down anything that comes towards ukraine that might be a nuclear weapon. there are ways to keep putin contained. ukraine wants longer range weapons at this point. it is offering to give the u.s. oversight, essentially veto power over russian targets. would that plunge the u.s. into war, in your opinion? i don t believe so. we talked about it before with other weapons. i thought we should have provided the mig-29s. i don t know why the allies aren t providing them. i think the attackems are a good
back, but they re also suffering setbacks on the battlefield against the vastly more powerful russian army. the ukrainian fighter pilot spoke to america s newsroom earlier this week on the challenges his country is facing. our fighters, they re still using really old soviet mig 29s, and we are doing our to save our peaceful is cities, to secure our critical infrastructure and, of course, to cover our troops on the front line. but, unfortunately, we are not capable enough to do eric: our thanks to the bravery and courage in their fight against putin s forces. jason beardsley now, national director of the of the u.s. navy and a national security expert. jason, a group of ukrainian military officials were in washington this week lobbying for more weapons, more systems and more support.
the ukrainians know how to fly, you have roughly a dozen, have you sent any? he haven t asked us. we are ready. we would have some operation will be needed, because we need to have first our space protected. we are working on this, and i think we are getting to a conclusion. at this moment, we are in very close communication, like you said, howitzers, with the mig 29s, they have not asked, but if they did, we would gladly speak. we are repairing their equipment. you are repairing, you re telling me that your people are repairing those captured russian tanks and sending them back to ukraine for the ukrainians to use? the agreement is almost at the final stages, we do not hide about it. these requests we received when i was in kyiv, actually. so we will be repairing those. you are being open with me. and i am thinking of what your
on this, and it is a crucial crossroads. i get that message loud and clear. let me turn to the question of arms supplies. is slovakia, right now, prepared to send heavy weapons, including howitzers that are made in slovakia, direct to zelensky? absolutely. as i said, our position is very clear. it goes back to the value. i m sorry that i repeat it again, but i want everybody to understand. we are in a war, it is brutal, killing people, we haven t had that in europe for over 70 years, we forgot, and now we see the brutality. i don t want any of european citizens to be killed by some dictator who decides that he is going to kill innocent people in the streets. it is ridiculous 21st century. that is why i said, whatever they request, we will happily help them, gladly. zelensky has been asking for warplanes for many weeks. you have mig 29s that
and coordinated, and our population in slovakia is not prepared for the potential of russia s psychological military operations. is that true? slovakia are strong leaders. of course, we as a neighbour, one example i will show you, how we can see how important it is for a country like ours to be in an alliance. when we were in nato, we don t have f 16s, fighterjets, we have those obsolete migs, we have not procured other equipment, but as this war started, immediately, germany, netherlands, czech republic, slovenia and also other countries said, we will provide our soldiers, we will help you to protect your eastern border. they provided equipment, patriots came immediately, otherwise we would have to procure it, it would take yea rs. where does this end?