more into the latest. john kirby, is the communications coordinatorfor the wh national security council. good to see you. i want to start with and announcements we saw from the defence department saying the abrams tanks that the us has promised to deliver to ukraine, they will get to the battlefield by this fall. that is earlier than expected. do you think these tanks are going to be enough to counter offensives from russia? we re also providing hundreds of other armoured vehicles and we re providing what we call combined arms training for ukrainian battalions outside the country to get them ready for the fighting that we expect and that they expect they will be doing in the weeks and months ahead. it is notjust abrams tanks, they will get there too the year year but we re also already taking possession, ukrainians are of leopard tags that are produced by germany and other nations, provider