as you mentioned, president zelenskyy and ukraine has been asking for a lot of different capabilities, among them fighter jets. and right now the air space over ukraine is contested. but the reality is much of that air space is more in russian hands than in ukrainian hands. because of that, we are not seeing a whole lot of ukrainian military aircraft in the skies right now. the russians are still flying, ukrainian military is flying. just not that much. instead, the majority of what we re seeing in the air right now are russian cruise missiles, russian short range missiles, russian artillery. but the ukrainians still do have the ability to stop some of these things with some of their surface to air missiles, their capabilities on the ground. so this is an evolving and dynamic story. we re trying to figure out the ground truth here, but the key question, why would they send them to germany, we don t have an answer to that yet.
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said were all sorts of radar pictures and saying that it was a ukrainian military aircraft that was flying a few kilometers away from the malaysian flight 17 just shortly around the time that it was down. what is your reaction to that? my immediate reaction, this is not true, and we are open for any checking and this is not russia when the russian minister when russian minister makes such a statement, they should present evidence of that, but the sky above the ukrainian is monitored by lots of stlts, lots of anti aircraft position, everybody knows in this period of time when tragedy happened, that all ukrainian planes were on the ground. and this is not true. and i invite the russian
from russia. they released the audio recordings they say between pro-russian rebels and what the government describes as their russian handlers, describing what they what they think they ve shot down is a military aircraft, but then somebody one of the pro-russian rebels getting to the site on the telephone describing no military equipment on the ground in the debris, but rather civilians and suitcases and holiday belongings. these are the basis, the strong basis for the government s claim that it can show, and it shows they will, that it was these pro-russian rebels who shot down the flight. they obviously said in the last few days as well as, two russian, two ukrainian military aircraft, a transport aircraft and fighter jet have been shot down in the same area. so, there is a body of evidence they re putting forward we can t substantiate. the obama administration, the white house, however, is saying they believe, from the