on drone flights in the region. the u.s. conducted a surveillance mission using roughly the same kind of drone in approximately the same area of the black sea, just hours after the collision took place between the russian fighter jets and the u.s. and q9 reaper drone. ukraine is about to receive fighter jets from a nato country for the first time on thursday, poland promised to deliver four of its mig 29 planes left over from the soviet era. we go to london. what is the impact it might have and whether it will spur other nato countries, the u.s., for example, to follow suit. a hugely significant move from poland. a country that feels like it s on the front line of this war. now promising to give in a matter of days, four mig fighter jets. these are soviet air jets about 30 years old. they were near the end of their
position to promote diplomacy, and not condemning russia for it, and suggesting that ukraine should give up some of the territory in order to stop the fighting that it did not start. and so, to look impartial by nato and the others is that china s public neutral stance could shift to direct lethal support for russia s war in ukraine, and perhaps some analysts then suggesting that china would expect that same support from russia if it decided to make a move on this island that it coveted for so many detads, taiwan. so much to look for and listen for ahead. thank you, will ripley. after the downing of the drone over the black sea, there is a assessment of the russia s harassment, and while the drone
another mq df 9 reaper flight shortly after the flight with the encounter with the russian jet. that, according to three officials familiar with the jet itself, was to look at the area the russians were trying to get to, to see if they could reach the wreckage of the drone. we now saw on flight tracking websites an rq4 global hawk drone over the southern area of the black sea. so we know there have been drone flights over the black sea since the encounter. these drone flights will continue, and that s what defense secretary lloyd austin promised, that the u.s. will continue to fly over international air space. it s pretty petty that russia would decorate these pilots for an incident they initially said they had no part in. the u.s. says russia may have recovered some of the debris from that downed drone. do we know what they recovered? reporter: we haven t gotten a
congress now that one of our drones has been basically taken out by a russian fighter jet. one, what is our military response going to be and, two, what is the mission and purpose of those surveillance flights and/or if these are armed drones. what s going on there and what decisions is the biden and white house making without the authorization from congress? ashley: what do you think biden should do in response? well, first of all, i would like to know all of the facts and all of the information. that s why congress should get i m sure some of this is classified. we should get a classified briefing on this. and so why we are flying these drone flights in the black sea. todd: meantime, residents in your state, in the florida keys specifically getting fed up with the rusty migrant boats piling up on their property and littering the shores and cleaning up these boats not sheep. some reports say removals could cost up to $100,000 per vessel. yet another example, congressman, every
from a sniper who wanted to engage the he didn t get the clearance to do that when he knew that that was going to happen. complete dereliction of duty all the way from the top through the ranks of our military right now. todd: yet, the white house said this was quote environmentally unsound. you hear the spokesperson in lucas piece say this was unsafe and unprofessional. that s it? that s the extent of the white house response? well, yeah. heaven forbid they dump fuel somewhere. they are in the middle of a war zone. the black sea is just south of ukraine and just west of russia. so you have got all sorts of military activity going on there. and, again, congress doesn t get this information. we need to know congress needs to know if we are flying drone flights in the black sea in a war zone very close to a war zone, what is the mission and purpose there? so i hope that the biden administration, the department of defense plans on briefing