standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
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vehicles. that is another infantry fighting vehicle. and the germans are providing mortars and the swedes providing infrantry fighting vehicles. and we are pulling all of this capability together and it s the not just platforms, we are already training troops on the platform as we get them into the country. and training them on combined arms maneuver, that will help them be more affective. one thing we keep hearing from the president when he was just in ukraine and we were in poland with him. is that the united states is with ukraine as long as it takes. can you define that? as long as it takes until they win or what? as long as ukraine continues to conduct operations and works
to provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to ukraine, that s certainly their decision to make. and one would assume that if you re going to introduce a system into a military that they have no experience with that there s going to have to be some training that goes along with that. we re doing it right now. fort sill, oklahoma, we ve got ukrainian soldiers learning how to use a patriot battery, and outside of ukraine, we re helping train them on combined arms maneuver, so it s not unusual to do that. if an advanced capability is provided, but that s going to be a national decision. reporter: thank you, admiral. thank you, karine. isn t there a concern that the object and balloon were both discovered when they re already flying over u.s. airspace? shouldn t they be detected before they enter the u.s.? i think we re going to continue to learn a lot about how these things are or can be detected in a better way.