meanwhile, president vladimir zelenskyy announcing ukraine s long anticipated spring counteroffensive is underway to be back vladimir putin s illegal invasion. welcome to fox news live. arthel: hello, president zelenskyy hosted canadian prime minister justin trudeau whose on an unannounced trip to kiev saying canada is giving ukraine $500 million in military aid. president zelenskyy conferences force are taking action against the russian invasion and says his top commanders are in, quote, positive mindset as their soldiers intensify the fight on the front lines. eric: our correspondent greg palcott is live in kiev. reporter: there was support from abroad today. we heard from ukrainian president zelenskyy confirmation that the counteroffensive is on, happening on a 600 mile front line, trying to clawback losses after months of bloodshed and breakthrough russian defenses south of here to split enemy hill grounded. in action now, american fighting vehicles, german leopard tank
wondering what this balloon is after. this spy balloon has been over uss space at least two days now. it is a chinese government, high-altitude balloon that s being seen in videos like this one from montana posted on twitter. officials believe the spying balloon have been flying over sensitive military site to try to gather intelligence. montana is home to the air force space. that had one of the country s three nuclear missile silo fields. president biden did not response to shoutout questions about the balloon today. thank you. the pentagon press secretary did issue a statement confirming the balloon is being tracked and adding that it is, quote, currently traveling altitude at well above commercial air traffic and does not present military or physical threat to people on the ground. the senior official says it is not the first time these kinds of spy balloon have been seen over the u.s. it is obviously a diplomatic issue coming days before secretary state antony bl
we re not safe. if this is something that is that the white house is just kind of brushing off saying, oh, there s no threat. we re watching it. even the president was asking. can we take it down? he said. no there s the concern. obviously there s concern for american lives everywhere in any situation, but if this were to happen in china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s spa
how you relate with him, that is the beauty of god. ashley: jackie ibanez has the latest details. police found the councilwelcome dead inside her car on wednesday night. the family heard multiple gunshots before calling police. our friends said there were two sets of four shot,s, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. they looked outside and saw somebody running into the woods which lead to the parkway. the fbi has confirmed it is working on the case, meantime, her family and friends believe she was targeted. for somebody to get so close to somebody and shoot them so many times, it has to be personal. it could have been many reasons why somebody would hurt somebody like her, she was a beautiful soul and loved everybody and always smiled. she would take her jacket off to give to you, she was a light. the murder sending shockwaves through the community. she was a devoted wife, mother, emt and pastor. eunice was a dedicated member of the council, the fact she was taken to us
that raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from today s pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato s strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. success. a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can t say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president s biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. and pose a reasonable threat to the sa