but secretary austin is then going to go, on monday i believe, to brussels. and he is going to be able to have a face to face with all the ministers of the various defense agencies within nato. he will be able to translate the president s words to all of them, face to face. so this face-to-face meeting, in my view, is critically important. not only for secretary austin to have the meeting with president zelenskyy but for what occurs afterwards in brussels. okay. president zelenskyy he wanted this meeting but also wants something to come with the meeting. he said that very openly tonight, don t come empty handed. we have talked about u.s. wea weapons, supplies, coming in with a focus on artillery. what is missing? what is missing right now is more heavy artillery and a lot of rounds. but also, the ability in my view for a the ukrainian army and hair supply system to get those weapons from the border of nato
weapons package to ukraine will be, remember, there was $800 million last week, a lot of heavy weapons, another $800 million planned this week, with a focus on artillery. that includes u.s. made artillery, particularly the 155 millimeter howitzers going in as well as ammunition, and the u.s., to get enough into those ukrainian forces is calling upon several nato allies in effect to say what do you got, so we can gather what we have, and send it in there to the battlefield as quickly as possible. there is great urgency here because of the scale of the russian force now mounted in the east and the kind of fighting that u.s. officials expect on that battlefield. heavy fighting, open battlefields, not forested terrain, a lot of artillery, a lot of tanks, a lot of things that will be reminiscent of world war ii battles. it will be bloody. there already has been a lot of blood witnessed in this war, and the president of the european council says that, quote, history will not forget russia s