explaining why they train together to learn how to make their weapons systems interoperable. when the time comes we don t have to guess at this. and we create trust aun can t surge trust at the 11th hour. the secretary has been in europe meeting nato allies to bolster the western flank. the secretary was in slovakia yesterday. the defense minister said his country was willing to send the f300s to ukraine but would need replacement systems as a back-up. the dutch ministry said it would install patriot missile defense systems in slovakia. the russians are facing stiff resistance and soldiers are experiencing food and fuel shortages. they are largely stalled on the
and as you mentioned, sits right there on ukraine s borders. so the redeploys movement or the repositioning of these two us patriot missile defense systems to poland is an attempt to try to prevent further escalation, should say a russian missile stray into nato airspace either deliberately or by accident. so these will be there to protect against incoming planes in poland or perhaps long range and long range ballistic missiles. this after poland s plan apparently mooted over the weekend to send its mig twenty nine fighter jets to ukraine seems to be off the table now that poland wants to send the migs first. it turns out to the ramstein air base in germany, which would effectively mean the american sending those migs into now what is a somewhat muddled and disputed airspace over ukraine as war rages.
today, and with that she made an important announcement the united states is sending in patriot missile batteries to poland to defend just in case vladimir putin decides to go in ukraine. let s listen to her. i ve said it many times, i ll say it again the united states commitment to article v is iron clad. the united states is prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. we are pleased to have announced this week that we have directed two patriot missile defense systems to poland, and today i can announce that we have delivered those patriot systems to poland. so general, that s a critical announcement that says if you look at the nato belt around ukraine and next to russia, nato forces are building up obviously, and we re sending in supplies. there s been a huge fight over the offer to poland.