with the president of ukraine, my visit in december and the visit of mr president of the united states to kyiv today. the results of this visit will surely be seen, and will surely have a reflection on the battlefield in liberating our territories, the decision of the united states on tanks for ukraine has already presented a foundation for establishing a tank coalition, and it s of historic importance in many other aspects, more specifically in air defence, the defence of our cities, and this is a fundamental reinforcement of our capacities. we have also talked about long range weapons and the weapons that may still be supplied to ukraine, even though it was not supplied before. i know, mr president, that there will be very significant package of support to ukraine,
classes and activities for the next two days. ukraine s defense minister will soon be sitting down with his counterparts from nato for a two-day meeting in brussels. he wants to focus on protecting ukrainian skies, building the tank coalition and military support. all that taking place as intense fighting continues around eastern ukraine. cnn correspondents are tracking the latest developments for us. scott mclean is in london. and nic robertson is in warsaw, portland. what can we expect from the upcoming nato meeting? reporter: we can expect from the ukrainians they will continue their push requesting fighter jets. it s beginning to gain a little traction. no country is committing. no country is saying that it s completely off the table. but they re not they don t appear to be moving very fast
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i want to play a sound bite about general kirby about the tanks on the way and how long it s going to take, listen to thrjts ithis. i m not going to predict a date certain. it s going to take many months. griff: and he says the leopard tanks could be sooner, but with the talk of a russian offensive beginning soon, in an earth ma of weeks, will the tanks get there in time? are you concerned about the delivery? timing of the essence and they have to work together. and the training start soon and leopard tanks have more than 12 countries discussing in this tank coalition. so we ll get some soon and train on those that we will integrate into our defense a little bit later, but we still need more of everything else, the fire power, all the armored vehicles, also air capabilities