Serbia and Kosovo have settled an ethnic dispute over the movement of citizens across their border, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Saturday. The dispute stemmed from ethnic Albanian Kosovo's declaration of Independence from Serbia in 2008, something Belgrade has refused to recognize
of state talked about it over the weekend, so the question is can the vice president reach a deal with poland. this issue has gotten increasingly complicated in the wake of that surprise announcement yesterday, chris. so general, the ukrainian military has held off the russians so far. the key question is can they continue to hold them off without these fighter jets? well, we hope so, and thank you for this coverage that continues to shine a light on this awful humanitarian catastrophe, the russians have imposed on a peace loving people. they re doing very well, the ukrainians, it s a tough fight for them, though, because well, the russians have failed in many respects to achieve a lot of their tactical objectives, and to stay on their time line. they have defaulted to what they typically do when they get in a situation like this and that s use massive fire power, and they re not even using it against the ukrainian military or the resistance elements, they re using it against the p
the cia, and melinda herring is the deputy director of atlantic council s eurasia center. we know how grateful ukraine is for the financial aid, for the oil ban, but they re begging for planes. it looked like there might have been a deal in place yesterday, until there wasn t. what happened and is it completely off the table now? i don t think it s completely off the table, chris. here s what happened. poland made that announcement, and it really caught the administration off guard. they didn t tell the biden administration they were going to make that announcement before they actually announced it. part of it was to pressure the president to agree to this deal, and look, pentagon spokesperson john kirby said in a statement quote, it is simply not clear to us that there is a substantiative rationale for it. we will continue to consult with poland and our other nato allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents but we do not believe poland s proposal a
tenable one. let s go back to that word, logistical challenges, part of the concern in the biden administration, and the european allies is that sending these planes would escalate this conflict with moscow, would engage nato in this conflict with moscow. that s exactly what they re trying to avoid, there s real concern about this escalating into world war iii with a nuclear armed russia, and concerns about putin being increasingly isolated and erratic. that s where the concerns come from. as you point out, vice president harris is on her way to poland right now, as she will be front and center. she will be talking to polish officials about this, and this is really her second trip to europe within the month aimed at reassuring america s allies, and shoring up support and pressure campaign against vladimir putin. we know that the administration was considering working out a deal with poland to send planes to ukraine because the secretary
trajectory, more change inside russia, but these transitions are fraught with risk so that is, i think where the world is. this is an incredibly risky situation, both for the people inside ukraine clearly but also the potential ripple effects that can stem and emanate from russia. general, the pentagon s presser person, john kirby said this yesterday. there s not a substantiative rational for deal on polish jets because of the risk of wider confrontation. from zelenskyy s point of view, it s the one hope to end all of this before it gets to the point almost of no return. militarily, militarily right now at this point in the war, does getting those jets into the hands of the ukrainian military make sense today, tomorrow, as soon as possible. i think it does, actually. as president zelenskyy has said,