the second thing they are talking about and believe russia may be willing to pursue are humanitarian corridors, given russia s history on not really honoring humanitarian corridors, how skeptical are you or optimistic are you about the possibility for that in ukraine? w well on the second part, on the humanitarian corridor, there was some agreement reached by russian and ukrainian officials yesterday. but as i understand it, there was no agreement on local cease-fire. and it is kind of difficult to see how you could do a humanitarian corridor having people coming out of a city, having food and medical supplies moving in if you don t have a local cease-fire agreed. and unfortunately, one report i ve seen suggested that one area in the city of kherson where they thought they had an agreement, the mayor is now saying at the russians have not agreed. on the no-fly zone, it is very hard for me to see nato agreeing
focus on working with our allies and partners to do everything we can to secure global supply including the unprecedented step that the president tooks to engineer last week of getting the iea to announce a global release of 60 million barrels of strategic reserve around the world. work this issue in realtime with our allies as we go. sgla speaker pelosi said she s all for it. you have bills in the senate from democrats and republicans who support banning russian oil
essentially, of nord stream 2. the fact this russia to germany gas pipeline is not going to happen. it is dead. and that is because they diplomatically convinced germany to seize the construction of that pipeline and in response to russia s invasion. so they do see that as a victory. but many people are still calling for those energy sanctions saying that unless russia really feels this in its most important sector, then it will be able to continue kind of profiting from the u.s. and european purchase of its exports and thereby continue the war. ambassador piper, i spoke to an adviser to president zelensky today and he expressed two things. they continue to call for a no-fly zone which seems to be off the table as far as nato is concerned. i m wondering about your thoughts on any possibility of that down the road.
aggression from russia. i think we re doing all that we can and that is what is most important. i think nato has to get its house in order and start reinforcing troops into the baltics and material there as well. there is no reason to think that vladimir putin won t have his sights set on eventually doing that. i think he ll look at the baltics as a not a real nato original country and the fact that he might ignore and see what we do. but in poland and it looks like the russians won t decide to cut off that way to egress in ukraine. u.s. troops that are in poland are likely helping with that material being distributed. we re doing all we can. the russians won t attack that road. they won t try to go after it. it is too far away from where the troops are, and then again allow us to keep pouring material into ukraine. and it is been just so successful when you see the pictures coming back after tanks with their tops blown off them. by the same token i know you say we re doing all we
from the royal canadian navy and the air force and the canadian army. the goal of the exercise is to provide effective training for apartments using the premier training location that s are available throughout alaska. arctic edge 22 is linked to other service specific exercises and including the national guard s arctic eagle patriot, the army s joint pacific multi-national readiness exercise and an 80s ice ex and those occur consecutively during february and march of this year. with that, we ll take questions. john, can you give us a little bit more detail on the hotline, deconfliction line, whatever you want to call it from russia, do you know if it has been used at all. was it used during the attack on the nuclear facility when one might think there might be cause for concern.