now i am grateful to my good friend alexey regina cobb for joining us at ramstein. and he once again gave us all a 1st hand account of the battlefield dynamics highlighting ukraine's most urgent needs in the critical months ahead. we also heard from my colleagues in us european command about the progress on building ukraine's combat power, as ukraine prepares to push back the lines of russian invade invaders. and we talked about key enablers, that will help ukraine repel russian forces, such as heavy equipment and transport vehicles and refuel ers and mine rollers. and i like to thank those here who announced donations of these important systems, including germany in the netherlands. we also discuss ways to intensify our sustainment and industrial based initiatives. now russia has continued its assault on civilian targets and ukraine, including schools and theaters and apartment buildings. those targets have absolutely no military value whatsoever. so we're hoping ukraine defendant citizens and skies against russian missiles and iranian drones, many contact group me