last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately we re told that the administration doesn t believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as long as a balloon can. a balloon can loiter for a much longer period of time as it did over montana, for example. the officials we spoke to said there are with steps taken to cover up certain areas, to make sure no unencrypted communications were happening in the vicinity of the balloon and minimize the ability of the balloon to collect intel. one detail we learned today is that the u.s. military actually doesn t have the capability on a day-to-day basis to collect intelligence on thing
ukraine acknowledges the russians have made some gain, but insists they re suffering catastrophic losses the head of the security council tells us. the lack of shells, but in our favor we re killing them at a ratio of seven times to one. unfortunately our men and women are dying there as well. ukraine s entire eastern front has been heating up, the russians deploying tens of ree. we re concerned but good preparations are being made now so if the russian offensive begins, it will be unsuccessful. to turn the tide of this war, the ukrainians say they need more long-range weapons to hit russian supply lines and combat aircraft to win control of the