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take us through the reasons behind his visit there. sweden has announced further military aid to ukraine earlier this week. a key focus will be getting those ukrainian pilots trained on the swedish made groupon jets. training has commenced on the u.s. made jets. this will mark a difference. he said ukranian pilots have run test flights on these jets and that training is set to continue, but it s not just jets that sweden will be supplying to ukraine. they ve signed a statement of intent on getting ukrainian soldiers trained up on armored vehicles and focused on the manufacturing of the swedish armored vehicles as well as other swedish made artillery systems. ukrainian troops are in sweden training on the artillery systems. this will mark a significant
ongoing invasion. when it comes to steps taken in tandem with european allies the white house says they ve not asked european allies to follow them in this measure. they don t expect them to do so given europe gets about 30% of its oil from russia. so obviously them taking the step has a much higher price than it does in the united states. though it has a higher price in the u.s., and they re trying to make up for some of those imports by talking to other countries. there s also this ongoing uncertainty whether poland will provide ukraine with soviet made jets. the latest polish offer which is to send those jets to i think a u.s. air base in germany and let the united states provide them with ukraine, that s being met with skepticism at the pentagon and seems like a nonstarter. it seems to be outright rejection from the pentagon right now, because they re saying this offer put out there by polish officials today, by the polish foreign ministry they say is untenable because the