Antitank Systems News Today

good morning to you. im jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. were following several major stories this morning. overnight ukraine rocked by a barrage of russian missiles. the defense minister saying its the most massive missile attack since the invasion began in februariment we know power is out in several regions including parts of the capital kyiv. well be live on the ground ahead. plus, the u.s. reinstating covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing dr...

Overnight the u.s. vowing more support for taiwan amid continuing threats from china. the biden administration approving a $180 million arms stale that could include antitank systems. cnns pentagon current oren liebermann is joining us with more. can you break this down how this is different from what the u.s. pljed previously? >> broadly speaking, the intent is the same. first, the capability. this is a volcano system capable of dispersing antitank mines over a given area. even if this system i...

0 land, air, sea, cyber, and space. we have reaffirmed that our article commitment is sacred. an attack on one is an attack on all and we will defend every inch of nato territory, every inch of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said we would do if putin invaded. enhanced our force posture in europe. we will station warships in spain. we are stationing more air defense in italy and germany. or after 35s in the united kingdom. added to strengthen our flag, new...

With three items on the agenda as he put it, weapons, weapons and weapons. secretary blinken met with him. we had a lengthy meeting with foreign minister kuleba, and secretary blinken gave him three answers, yes, yes, and yes. every day the united states and allies are delivering systems to our ukrainian partners and delivering them precisely what they need. let me give you a couple of examples. for every russian tank in ukraine, there are ten u.s. provided antitank systems. if you include the s...

This came up, i was just on the vice presidents trip to poland as well as romanian. the issue over thinks mig fighter jets as well, which, again, national security experts and some of the pentagon would say, look, its just not worth of risk. theyre aging aircraft. this would be won from the ground regard than the air, but this issue was brought up among other issues. >> one of the point the administration makes -- zelenskyy set hes gracious in these speeches, thank you for everything youve done,...

Member countries to keep sending the lethal equipment so it can defend itself. president zelenskyy is expected to address the nato leader summit virtually. he will be making the plea for more defensive systems they can use against russia. i think its important to remember this is a very fraught topic because the west did not necessarily anticipate the ukrainian military to remain standing for this long. they expected them to take the view of kyiv. supporting a large ukrainian military for this l...

Their naval capability to enhance their deterrence against the russians. last thing i would say is we need to argue our points in the public sphere as well as highlight that vladimir putin is causing great problems for his own economy by mounting aggression i his neighbor. heather: what about us troops? >> in this case certainly it is worthy of discussion of whether we want to put any boots on the ground in ukraine. we have training trainers assisted ukraine because of antitank systems but maybe...