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
batter the russian army into submission without which the war goes on and endures forever. is that what he s going to get after his visit, ukraine s president? well, i think, look, the biden team, lloyd austin, tony blinken, they re very experienced sensible people, cia, treasury, there is a whole government approach to this and rightfully concerned about backing putin into a corner. they re rightfully concerned about nuclear weapons deployment but at the end of the day, the russians have thrown everything into the fray. so for example the patriot missile battery which is going to be used in six months, it may help, but the can t fight a defensive war with your infrastructure being sabotaged and have any hope of peak negotiations we have to up the pain on the russians and the ukrainian military can do that. you were just discussing,
in the midst of the talk about how this is a bigger issue thanjust ukraine, in the midst of being thankful for the great support congress has shown, he continued to put forward his requests, that that support would continue into the next year. barbara referenced america s military aid to ukraine there and president biden made this announcement after talks with president zelensky. i m announcing the next tranche of our security assistance to ukraine, $1.85 billion of security assistance, it includes both direct transfer of equipment that ukraine needs as well as contracts to supply ammunition ukraine will need in the months ahead for its artillery, its tanks and its rocket launchers. critically, in addition to these new capabilities like precision aerial munitions, the package will include a patriot missile battery which we will train