patriot battery to the slovakians so that they can sort of back fill, so they won t have a risk to their own homeland defense. it will be moving from poland into slovakia in the coming days. secretary of defense lloyd auston ordered to have that moved from germany to poland so it would be there ready to send into slovakia in a very short order. it will be there temporarily, manned by the u.s. military as the u.s. and slovakian government work on a longer term patriot system or something there so that the slovakian military and slovakian government has that back fill on the longer-term scale, peter. those patriot missile systems are not being provided to ukraine at this time. he said they re capable of using more complex western weapons. he said the weapons would be a
back fill what s been used. that s going to be much more difficult. don t expect russia to do that and find ways to achieve that goal and not easy. the message for ukraine is we ll do everything that we possibly can as a country. united states as an ally nato and other nations around the world. thank you so much for your time. thank you. i ll see you on nbc news now. deadline: white house picks up the coverage now. hi there, everyone. 4:00 in new york with breaking news here at home and abroad. history being made in washington, d.c. today. president biden announcing judge jackson as the pick to replace justice breyer setting in motion a process that is likely to
for a state to make, whether it s poland or anybody else should they want to provide aircraft to the ukrainian air force. that s a sovereign decision. the united states won t stand in the way of that. there was discussion about if a nation such as poland were to do this, would there be a capacity for the united states to back fill those aircraft with american made aircraft. what i can tell you is because i can only speak for the department of defense, we re part of an interagency discussion to examine that policy. no decisions have been made, certainly by poland. we re having a discussion about should a nation like poland want to to this and should there be a desire or need for a back fill of assets, what would that look like? how would we do that? how many? from where? those are the things that we re
of that is hundreds and thousands of people will die, homes destroyed. russia is facing the most serious sanctions ever put forward. the one thing that remains is russian oil and gas. i believe too long the world will figure out how to supplement, back fill, as the russian gas and oil is embargoed. that s being worked out. the diplomats and the energy department are working on that. when that is in place we ll see the step-by-step russia s oil and gas being strangled. you think both because right now we ll hearing about the russian oil. you think we already know that the nord stream pipeline isn t going to happen. there is the possibility of the liquefied natural gas being diverted to germany. the intake facility on that pipeline is in place. all they need to do is figure
secretary austin saying the biden administration is against be a part of a no-fly zone saying it would draw the united states into a direct conflict with ukraine. they were asked of the idea of slovak i can t providing s-300s to ukraine. we heard zelenskyy asking for more missiles. the slovakian defense minister said they re open to the idea of providing these to ukraine, but it s all that they have for their own defenses and he talked about the potential for some sort of a back fill or some other country, potentially like the united states, providing a capability gap, meaning the united states bring in a similar capability to defend slovakia.