inventory to ukraine. our 23rd drawdown since august . as ukraine s defenders push back russia s forces, the united states stands # united with ukraine. doctor rebecca grant joins us national security military analyst president of iris independent research and fox s contributive. will we or nato step up and provide the necessary equipment for ukraine s air defense that they so desperately need? especially after what we saw last week. the big take away from the g7 and that ukraine contact group this week was that nato is going to double down on air defenses for ukraine and it is about time. we will see some u.s. systems also a system from spain, from germany, the idea here is to make sure that ukraine is cities can fight back in case there are more air and missile strikes. and also to give covid to
zaporizhzhia southern city that vladimir putin claims as his own, it was hit with russian rockets early this morning killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens of others. it really gives you a sense what the russians are doing here on the ground in ukraine. they are claiming territory at their own while killing civilians that live there. eric. eric: all right, trey, in kharkiv for us and it continues, thank you. arthel. arthel: well, trey and eric, meanwhile russia s defense ministry naming an air force general as new commander of forces fighting in ukraine and as we just in trey s report vladimir putin has ordered enhanced security near that bridge to crimea that a truck bomb partly collapsed yesterday. let s bring in dr. rebecca grant now. national security and military analysts also president of iris independent research and fox news contributor. dr. grant, first i want to start here, who do you think the behind the exbeings on the the
putin that this is a humanitarian gesture that is worthwhile x this is how we achieved this result. eric: fox news contributor dr. rebecca grant joins us now, president of iris independent research and a national security and military analyst. dr. grant, great to see you. why is it so significant that saudi arabia played such a major role in mediating between putin and zelenskyy to get the men free? i d say two reasons. first of all, polite words, but you can a hear from the saudi foreign minister that saudi arabia is on ukraine s side. and they re getting a little tired of putin waging this war. the other reason, of course, is this is a small but very senate step forward significant step forward for saudis in trying to rehabilitate their world status and get back in position to guide saudi arabia in the long term. they re trying to do a favor to the u.s. and britain, and they have. eric: and what is the meaning of
using drones for aerial surveillance. effectively those and that s really useful to the ukrainian forces, arthel back to you. arthel: such a heavy and harboring situation. steve harrigan thank you very much, eric. before arthel ukrainian suffering setbacks in the battlefield in the east bay the country is making diplomatic gains. starting a process to start enjoying the european union and strengthening its relationship with europe and the u.s. so far with no end in sight for vladimir putin s ruthless invasion. some are doubting the possible ability of peace talks. he is german chancellor. the truth is we are far far away from negotiations between ukraine and russia. putin still believes in the possibility of a dictated peace. how can this endless big national scaredy analyst doctor rebecca grant and president of iris independent research and a fox news contributor. so doctor grant, what you think and bring putin to the table
sleep posture is exactly what the russians of said they are concerned with. we ll hear a lot more about this later on this week when the secretary of state will go back to europe to move the russian foreign minister. sergey lavrov producing a lot of talk on a comprehensive set of sanctions a sweeping set of sanctions back in europe there s still a debate over what should and should not be included. big? comes to energy experts out of russia because of course as you know, eric, so much of europe gets its energy supply from russia. eric: mark meredith live at the white house thank you. arthel: for more were going to bring in doctor rebecca gresh his national security analyst and president of iris independent research. so what signals or action are you on the lookout for in the next 48 hours let say? yes, that line up at the white house tells me three big things. first of all the team biden is finalizing the economic