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
make relief faster than getting america off of fossil fuels? the big thing about investing in renewables is a big priority even though they admit that prices will go up because of this international conflict. martha? martha: they re clearly dug in. thanks very much, peter. let s take a look at this. ukrainian forces in kyiv firing at russian forces north and west of the city. they say the truth and god are on their side. mike tobin reporting live from ukraine near the border with poland. good afternoon, mike. good afternoon, martha. the cease fire delegations met again today in belarus. nobody expected the developments to come from this and indeed no big developments did come. a negotiator for the ukrainian
martha: it is. john kirby talked about the problems that the pentagon witnesses that russia is having with morale, supply, food, fuel. so it s interesting that you benoit that we re sending these additional resources over to nato countries to basically make sure that they don t have problems with the same things with regard to refuelling and command and control that you talk about. however, it raises the next question. i thought about poland, the question of whether or not they want to send their jets. they don t want to be seen as an aggressor in this. they ve accepted many refugees coming across their border. what is your read on how mouch poland wants or doesn t want to get involved with this by suching their jets? this is ph.d. level stuff. i m sure my former colleagues from the pentagon are working 24/7 with secretary austin trying to provide the best
are faceful. it doesn t seem to be helping the bombing has been indiscriminate. the other issue we hope to discuss and we re wondering about today, this whole question of poland and whether or not they will agree to a jet swap while they fear that russia could see them as an aggressor if they give the mig 29s to poland and the idea that we would back fill with f-15s. we ll talk to civilians and policy makers on the ground. we get started with benjamin hall who is live in kyiv. hi, benjamin. hi, martha. today i can tell you in the last hour we re hearing the shelling getting closer. it s been a constant barrage on the out skirts to the north and to the northwest and to the west. it s clear that putin is trying to make his move to capture this city.
the salary is $500 per month. so there s 150,000 criminals. they cannot take over a country of 40 million in which 90% believe in their victory. they will have a military defeat. martha: we have some images. one is an unexploded 500 pound russian bomb and another photo of another rush helicopter that was shot down. we ve seen a lot of these throughout the course of this. could you believe that you are going to get the help that you need from other countries? what about this plan that is not yet in place to allow mig 29s to come from poland to be flown by ukrainian pilots? if you remember the war of afghanistan, thousands of planes and helicopters were dropped