you think these visits are, and what kind of a message do you think it sends to russia cr crucially? these visits are very important and we ve seen not just only u.s. high level officials, but also european union, president of the european union, head of the council, head of the foreign affairs, they are all coming to show they stand with ukraine and ukrainian people. remember, we are seeing the largest conflict on the european continent since the second world war and there was a feeling where ukrainians were saying that pe are on our own with this dark force that president putin unleashed on ukraine. and these visits exactly demonstrate that ukraine is not alone, that there is a 40 country strong coalition supporting financially, militarily with humanitarian aid and that ukraine can win and can persevere and defeat russia.
armed forces will allow. that is why that meeting that took place in ramstein last week with a very strong coalition of 40 nations setting up a special ukrainian coordination task force to provide rapidly ukrainian air defense, a counter-navy, you know, equipment. and more armored vehicles, more tanks. this will change the situation on the ground and clearly will allow ukrainians to contain russian aggression not to allow putin to have any victory that is solid and convincing and also possibly counterattack in the south around kherson. so we ll see a lot of battles going on in the southeastern of ukraine. it was interesting that nato meeting earlier in the week, it does seem that that is a pivot in terms of strategy going forward. appreciate your input. and now, when we come back, more deadly violence in the middle east, clashes between