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Understanding 9/11tv Defense Secretary Joint Chiefs Chair Hold News Conference in Belgium CSPAN June 16, 2024 2:31pm-2:57pm EDT
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good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and thank you for tod. it's my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lyda iii and chairman of staff. the secretary and chairman will li to take a few questions. please note i will moderate those questions and call on reporters and ask you to limit . >> good afternoon everydy. thanks for joining us.
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we have come from another highly pr the ukraine defense contact group. this■ is our 23rd meeting. and every time we impressed by the resolve than 50 countries helping to supportkr self-defense. today the contact group heard di the battlefield situation from the ministe dele. ukraine forces are holding of rs assault near ukrainian troops arelicting significant cost on the kremlin's invader■&■9s. biden se national security supplemental, assistance is reaching ukraine at a steady pace.st week, president biden announced a new assistance
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package through another drawdown of our this $225 million with more arm, ant thy tanwe and military systems and meun anythings and ukraine's partners stand up to putin's steadfast and strong. and the contact group remains determined to meetád ukraine's military needs and this decades to come. contact group members continue to step to get ukraine what it needs and when it needs it. air defense remains ukraine's top priority. i who have dug deep to find more air defense systems and interceptors. the netherlandsg"g to
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assemble and deliver■e air defense system. they are ctributing a mini core components apart from its own stocks d called on ukraine's other friends to help with the rese, sweden recently announced largest for ukraine a. sweden is prov airborne early warning and control aircraft whi wil help ukraine with airborne and italy will send a second to ukr. so our allies are committing to long-term military aid packages. more and more countries are ensuring tse commitments in
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bilateral agreements with the united states and ukraine agreement today.n we are looking to forge for ukre and i continue to be expressed with theork of the capability coalitions. today we heard an update from the drone capable coalition. and let me leadership of the drone coalition. dois capabily is helping to expand ukrainetric ct is eecimportant as relies on iranian target targets and civilians. this is just one of the eight capability coalitions and they do outstanding work. we are helping ukraine to buildr we remain determined to support
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ukraine while ensuring our own military readiness and3 industrial base. so we spent time today discussing ways to expand critical munitio a and deepen our coordination. no just want to be clear about why i have convened this group, this contact group 23 times now. thinks that he gets o determine real and which countries can be wiped off the that's incredibly radical and incredibly dangerous. so let's be clear. putin started this war by invading his peaceful■r neighbo. a permanent neighbor of the u.no deny for more than 43
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million people. and thear of imperial aggression has horrified countries around the world. ukraine matters to the united nd to the entire world. falls under putin's putin's shadow.ll faller if putin tramples would be emboldened to commit more and the world would enter a far more ane outcome of the war in ukraine a trajectory for global decades to come and this contact group will continue to■e ukraine's sovereignty and all of our security. so we will continue to stand up to putin's aggressioncl will coo find new options to defenses tos
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skies and move heaven and earth to get ukraine to live in, the s yours. >>ou, mr. secretary. good afternoon. just last week on was on the beaches of normandy to commemorate anniversary of the d-day where along side president biden and secretary austin and other world leaders, we honored some of the last living veterans who fought in worl ii, our greatest generation. on the evening of 6 june, 1944, president roosevelt put out aene men. he said, not for the loss of conquest, end conquest and fight to liberate and l arise and goodwill rise among good
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people. they s power of cooperation. showed us that liberty prevails over aggression when nations come together for a just cause.r crux of history. this is this ukraine force contact groupited for thee of ukraine, tore the cause of cause of the future. retary austin for your leadership in guiding this national coalition and defenseus today and for hisd leadership for u■paine military forces. and to all the nations thank th. their contributions are to maintain its sovereignty. of security on which the world relies. unpro is recognized aggressioncl
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nations. as i have said, might does not e group's collective supporof mighting the world of what is right. theyorced into further isolation and our■m unity grows stronger. russia continues their attempts to advance across multiple battle fronts and recent assaul. they are trying to force abilities reposition has countered russia and disrupted their attack. ukraine continues to hold strong.th this group's contributions ukraine is exacting russian aggressors and our
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ongoing support iso critical. sustaining ukraine's ability to defend itself ■9 p long-term effort. this group's work in providing ukraine with the necessary systems and missions and capabilities has been remarkable. to be effective fighting forces need access to capabilities and supplies the un will to fight has proven time al not bend and fightg iron clad. will itself is not we remain fod dedicated to thesek as secretare announced 59th drawdown package foris was part of an incredible contribution r■■ec by some 50 nations of this how it remains dedicated to supplying ukraine o
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counter ongoing russian aggressionkóof the gathered here today is greatest assets. these nationsre to help ukraine to address the challenges ahead we are stronger when we work together. this solidarity is rooted in a of security and fostered by the premises of democracy, sovereignty and international law. for the past few years, these premises fosters nations that uphold them. this contact gro sta)z against any challenge. demonstrating the true power si effort by like-minde efforts. this could the rest of the world but in these moments brave
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men and women must conquest to liberate and let ju arise. allied nations came together 80 years ago and executed knowing that and sovereignty depended upon their today, peace and success are not only achieved from individual nations. it is key through collective efforts and mining our resources d+i responsibilities and supporting ukraine, defending democracy and sovereignty. i look forward to yourtñ >> first question goes to politico. >> thank you. secretary austin, pde for more r defenses and germany has a
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patriot. will the u.s. answer deliver an additional patriot to ukraine. answer is no, what is the holdup? for general brown, 30 pilots to pilot training f-16's but notug is that true? and if so, are you looking at expanding at training pipeline and will ukrainel have enough pilots and training by the time they summer? >> regarding defense has been at the top of my time. and month after month, you heard me emphasize the importance of providing additional defenses and provided a patriotism already but not only that, me
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and jake sullivan and tony blinken have encouraged others to it's a number of capabilities that ukraine needs and they need to interpreter to complement the platforms. i don't announcements on patriot batteries today, but what you, i continue to work tsnt contact with my ukrainian counterpa make sure they have the capability they need and get it there as quickly as we can. >> we have air force, one of the eight capability and working with to get the d running.eration capability up
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united states is co-leading and not only do■ training for their pilots but other pilots it as well. various capacities both in the united states and some of the coalition.s part of and we will continue to work with only the f-16 and k of that and working digia ukraie what they need and f-16's up this■= summer. >> next question. [indisrnible] >> question to my colleague, reading in té this new extra patriot system and no.
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we know that holder of this patriot system. what is theeason why you are holding it? operational system and■h one tot for us to understand and coral, what is your in kharkiv. do they have enough to regain initiatives and see other critical -- [indiscernible]e front now? >> air defense is a top this onf the press reporti. will tell yor patriot coveraget that was a cot
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of but there is no change in our patriot coverage. we are gng do everything we can to get ukraine what it to es and work with others to needs ay as we can. and this is not ukrainians are in reference to . the situation is more stabilizet several weeks. and what they havbe focused ongoing into 24 and building those offensive lines to create better stability. challenges ing by theu■!■h russians it moves ad
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spreads their defenses. ukrainians have been good holdinghe will continue to do tf america. >> i would like a question to clarify u.s. poly. if russia launches attac that■ e strike military target? if not,i would like to expand te question that my and more broadly, how would you russia and ukraine. you mentioned thatkrng, but is
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this still a stale mate? >> ukraine requested conduct coe kharkiv area using u.s. weapons. and president b granted them permission to do that. so, our policy in using range strike capabils■- conduct strikes that has not changed but the conduct counterfire in this close fight in region is close and my that to good u share with you, f conflict, regai■&its territorye runs of this contact group to
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help the capability to defend themselves. i mentioned about theefensive line and hold the defensive lines but what we don't talkuntn that they put against the although they are outnumbered. the way the lost personnel and platforms is pretty traumatic from a numbers' standpoint andkrainians have held those lines and continue to do so. >> time for one more question. l here. spec, some of the restrictions were lifted about two weeks ago, what kind of impact has that had on the
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battlefield. whatd of pro■n or does it go far enough for you can't s allies, what weapons have been used or not used that has had but what i can speak to looking at in the kharkiv region, to condut counterfire was t help them conduct stage -- build staging areas just on the other side of the border and attacking from those staging areas. so they have the engage russians just across theo the ukrainians to talk about the specific effects they have but what i see is a slowing of the russians'th advce and a
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vq piece of the front. now i think we'll seecremental d takes going forward, but weeks s concern we would see-through one part of the russians. i don't think we'll see that going forward. i don't think -- i don't see a large exploittation force to take advantage of a k-thugh ■h t has described. ukrainians have done a lot to te positions and making good use of the and munitions that they are being provided and more of that will continue to flow in. so in my viewhe stronger as time progresses but they are also doing things to mobilize more people and train more people.
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so the combination of those th a pretty substantial battlefield but will take time to play continue to provide security assistance and will flow in in a very way. >> that concludes our press briefing. h for attending. thank you,[á gentlemen. [captions copyright nation 2024]
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