jet. as you know, president volodymr zelenskyy of ukraine has been campaigning publicly for these f-16 jets for some time now. now, two pilots are currently being vaulted in tucson, arizona, on flight simulators and officials are looking at how much training would be required to fly military aircraft, including the f-16. in a statement to reporters, official describe the exchange as a, quote, familiarization event and the military to military dialogue with ukraine. as the war in ukraine drags on opponents of president vp ladim putin face a decision. do they challenge the kremlin and speak out against the war? putin s critics face danger, even death for speaking out. details from cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance. [ crowd chanting ]
During talks in Tehran on Tuesday (July 19), Russian President Vladimir Putin was kept awkwardly waiting for his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to arrive. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with the Russian president while he was in Iran. The Russian president was seen in the meeting video shuffling his feet and sucking his cheeks while he waited nearly a minute for his counterpart to arrive.
so i think especially for audiences that are trying to make sense of where things are, i just wanted to kind of get to the bottom of that. but nonetheless, how soon are you expecting a potential invasion? the invasion can take anytime now, but we should not panic and we do not panic. i can only speak about what we do here with the united nations in new york. and i need to assure you that all the partners, all the members of the security council have daily consultations, and we are ready to act anytime soon. president biden was pretty clear when he was talking about personally sanctioni ing vladim putin, something other presidents shied away from. he s looking at that. would that deter putin? the sanctions needed even as preemptive measure and we welcome what the what the
u.s. should russia decide to invade? we re very connected and dij advertised society. as a society we don t have the level of cyber resilience that we wish to. have you already seen that probing from russia? we consistently see probing activity. how much do we have to consider that a possibility when it comes to retaliation by putin if we were to act more aggressively whether it be sanctions or militarily? certainly the russians have a cyber capability that could effectively turn off i think the lights in ukraine and the ukrainian government will be completely outmatched. we have our own abilities, of course, the russians the end to be more on offense and we the end to think more of security and preventing the kinds of electronic warfare that we know the russians have been developing for a very long time. there is absolutely a very real possibility that the russians may just in order to make
putin now, what does he have to stop him from going ahead and doing? sandra: you agree with the administration? i make sure what the argument is. guys like me have to do fight it if it turns to war. what is the seriousness putting troops in countries bordering ukraine and russia. what is putin going to do? whatever putin wants to do. what will stop him at this moment? that s the problem we have. president biden says i ll meet with you if you don t invade ukraine. what if he does? would you still meet with him to bring resolution to it? so those are the questions that here as american citizens say how is this administration doing anything but reacting and is this what we have in store with china? what we should do different looking at china or other foe. sandra: we know the state