Point Defense System News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

ukraine. we believe that many of the points on the peace plan put forward by china are consistent with russian approaches and can be taken as the basis of a peaceful settlement when the west and kyiv are ready for it, this readiness is not observed on their side. >> since the war began, russia has become far more dependent on china. china has been propping up russia's economy amid western sanctions by purchasing its energy replacing western supp suppliers in electronics and aircraft and providing an alternative to the u.s. dollar. she is inviting putin to china this year and told put...

Assessment is that the ukrainian soldiers are impressive and absolutely a quick study due to their extensive air, defense, knowledge and experience in a combat zone. it was easier, though never easy for them to grasp the patriot system, operations and maintenance concepts. but the stakes are so high that cnn was not allowed to film or photograph the training and effort to protect the ukrainians who will be back on the front lines in just a matter of weeks and to shield the us from blowback from moscow, us officials emphasizing that the patriots are purely defensive and not a threat to russia. ...

There better be some manage expectation. it will take a long time to get them employed, the soldiers and suppliers trained on it. i'm not talking weeks, i'm talking months. as david said, this as point defense system and this is one battery. that's a company-level organization that has between six and eight launchers, one massive control system and a massive radar system. it just takes a lot of time to understand and use, yet i know ukraine has proven themselves to be great on the battlefield, but they can't just fall in on this piece of equipment. this piece of equipment can't move around. it...

Opposite, that ukraine is going to end up unable to cope with the next russian military offensive. >> so in the interim, how impactful will it be, in your view, what cnn is learning that the biden administration is finalizing plans to send the patriot missile defense system to help ukraine? how potentially impactful will that be? >> it's very helpful. but the patriot is still a point defense system. it's not like you are going to have a net all over ukraine that is going to stop all these attacks. so you can put them where they can protect kyiv, protect other critical points, but you are not g...

>> i don't think they're vulnerable at all. actually, the threats that were made today by hamas i think are empty threats that are a part of the psychological war. but if you see the difficulties that hamas has to actually get their missiles into targets the size of tel aviv and you see the effectiveness of the protection, the anti-rocket system, the iron dome protection that is provided to the important targets in israel, then you can assume that the ben goron airport in tel aviv is just as safe as any other airport in the western world. >> general zinni, how significant is that anti-missile ...