through. obviously ukraine is dealing with a lot right now and they warrant to take out anything they can in the sky, but there s something, it leaves something to be desired, as most things would, when you re arguing about sending more military aid in, higher quality weapons for the ukrainian military, does it concern you what that might do to provoke vladimir putin from a military perspective? no. i think we got to understand scale. the u.s. army has 50 batteries of patriot missiles systems and we operate them in battalion sets, so putting one lone battery on the ground, again, it is symbolically important, it will not be a game changer. but when we look at what the russians are doing now, they re essentially, their only idea they have left is to go after the civilian population and cause misery and death. that s a criminal activity. it s not going to change the military course of the war. they re not going to crack the
another fundamental function of the eu is humanitarian crisis as you said in and around ukraine to help the refugees in particular. bret: france is offering ukraine, first shipment 33 tons, blankets, tents, sleeping bags arrived in poland sunday according to reuters. there are questions about getting not only the humanitarian aid but the military aid in, if russian troops are encircling as it looks like they are planning to do kyiv and these other big cities. are you concerned about that? well, it s something we don t want to discuss in detail, of course, but we are [inaudible] and we are indeed all offering equipment to ukrainians to defend themselves. this is essential.