missile, the remains of it, on display and have opened up the international community to inspect the remains. so there doesn t seem to be any doubt from the ukrainian perspective they shot down this missile. the new information now is that this was a missile targeting the factory itself and will be a deep concern for the ukrainians. there s been an intelligence breach or the russians have a method by which they can identify these patriot batteries. that will be a deep concern for the ukrainian side. important point. sam kylie, thank you very much. let s discuss what s going on. joining us now, the nato deputy secretary general. thank you very much, mr. secretary general, for joining us. former romanian ambassador to the united states. what s your reaction to russia trying to destroy these patriot air defense missile battery that the yukrainians received from te united states? it s clear the support all
significant contributions of their own to ukraine s integrity. each fully committed to making ukraine remain strong and independent and able to defend itself. i want to thank every member of that coalition for continuing to step up. uk recently announced that it is donating challenger 2 tanks to ukraine. france is contributing amx 10s, armored fighting vehicles. in addition to the leopard tanks, germany, like the united states germany is sending a patriot missile battery. the netherlands is donating a patriot missile and launchers. france, canada, uk, slovakia, norway and others have donated critical air defense systems to help secure ukrainian skies and save the lives of innocent civilians who are literally the target of russia s aggression. poland is sending armored vehicles.
that? and for the foreign secretary, did you place the date that the northern ireland protocol issue will be resolved by that 25 anniversary of the good friday agreement, and did you discuss whether president biden will visit the uk in april? 50 biden will visit the uk in april? so on the question of tanks, and for that matter, any weapons system, these that matter, any weapons system, these are that matter, any weapons system, these are sovereign decisions for any country to make. i would note that what any country to make. i would note that what germany has done today has been quite that what germany has done today has been quite extraordinary. we just had the been quite extraordinary. we just had the recent announcement of them sendinq had the recent announcement of them sending finding fighting vehicles and it sending finding fighting vehicles and it patriot missile battery and that follows other steps they have taken that follows other steps they have taken which i
l, ukrainian troops have arrived in the united states to begin training on the patriot air defense missile system. what more support is really needed nearly a year into this war? well, wolf, it goes well beyond, i think, the training of as good as it is of the patriot missile battery that the ukrainians are training on at fort sill. really what you need is more weapons systems like the patriot, like himars, some of the attack drones, potential air assets, such as an f-16 squadron or something like that. it requires a great deal more defensive capability than what we re seeing right now, and the west has not been willing up to this point to provide all of that offensive capability. of course there s a lot of training that used to go into that, but that is something that needs to happen right now. that s what the ukrainians want, colonel cedric leighton, thank you very much. jill dougherty, thank you very much to you as well. just ahead, california endures yet more rain in a series
for the ukraine theater. the reason he is responsible for this is because the russians want this to succeed at all costs. they want their mission to succeed there and they put the top guy in. it could also make the top guy a fall guy for this whole operation. i want to also mention this is happening as ukrainian soldiers are actually on u.s. soil learning how to use the patriot missile system. they re learning how to fire this particular missile system. this is a hazy picture of the missile battery right here. it usually has anywhere from six to eight launchers attached to it. what they re doing here is they re learning how to fire this missile system. it s a very complex missile system, something that is used as an air defense and really a battery that is used with an associated radar system in order to detect all kinds of aerial objects, whether incoming