thank you very much, charles, that spring and patrick barry on this. patrick barry, the defense and security analyst at the university of bath and the u. k. is also a form in nato and list and who joins us from san francisco today. patrick, i want to your perspective on just how significant this is. essentially, nato is talking about how much commitment they're going to provide to ukraine for how long and under what form on my right. and thinking that these kinds of conversations at the nato level could essentially determine the outcome of this for a good evening, sir. oh, uh, yeah, well, it will certainly contribute to the outcome of the war one way or another if they can make an agreement or not. i think charles has pointed by trying to tie in a certain governments that now into structured support over a lengthy period of time is certainly one of the things here because the trying to reduce the risk of, of there being a change in administration. and the course, you know, the delay in particular, the us $60000000000.00 which is being held up in congre

patrick barry is a defense and security analyst, as well as a former british officer who's also with a long side. nice. so thank you very much for being with us here on inside story. patrick, if i can begin with you, and before we get to the long attend implications of this a package, you kind is wasted months and months for this to be signed off. how desperately needed, is it and what impact is it actually going to have on the war? a tom is critical. i think the, the new music in the face reflect a doctor. this bill is going to get through because of the nature of the, the threat to you brian is facing. essentially it's quite a defensive of the way it looks is going to be quite a defensive package. and the number one priority at the moment is air defense. a new brain has obviously had some patriot and ask for assistance from the u. s. and you are, but it needs more uh, it has somewhere in the region of 3 to 5. and as ask for another 7 more, the good news is you can get that quite quickly. um, i'd say most of the nations that can provide the systems can news and fairly quickly, the re

patrick barry is a full met. ne so um lets see things day 2 members are planning ahead. so the us selections, trying to tie in a certain governments and now into structured support over a lengthy period of time is certainly one of the things here because the trying to reduce the risk of, of there being a change in administration. and the course, you know, the delay in particular the us $60000000000.00 which is being held up and congress the delay and the effect about delay to the ukrainians fall using this winter and into the spring as being events you know, is basically 100 a window of opportunity to, to start to grind, it was a victory so, and have these take cetera. and then potentially go on the offensive russian arrow for a period last year. it actually had less are generally firing per day. and then the finance, when they were going into their offensive and their russia is and farming. uh, ukraine, probably about $3.00 to $1.00 more. okay. at least um, potentially hire just in our tennessee shelves for example. and of course, these radians are and i showed them on

release that long waited for $61000000000.00 worth of us a child stuff alger 0 give me or i spoke to patrick barry. he is a defense and security analyst at the university of boss. he told me why ukraine is focusing specifically on ad defense and his appeals and military help. the key takeaways, the critical nature of the air defense. now it was, we know we have hard previous need and there are sort of the if i munition having 5 issues with obviously mind power for the ukrainians as they're moving to address and to drop through the draft bill. and i know it's, it's air defense essentially, you know, in terms of like the patriot system is one of the most effective along with the aster system. and there's somewhere between maybe $3.00 and $5.00. um the batteries as far as i'm aware and in, in actually in new frame. and they've just ask for another 7 more. so it's, it's on those things kind of getting quite quickly empty. i'm, you can, you can buy those as charles was saying there to the pentagon on you and i sort of got everything and ready to go in on dissipation of, of, of, so that, that sounds tha

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