to fool the defense.e. >> a fundamental problem. >> we don't see in the next 15 years, the effective defense can be mounted against icbm. >> the current system has been tested 19 times. since 1999. >> in those tests they have been essentially scripted for success. even so the test have only succeeded around half the time. >> what about all those successful interprets in the middle east and the iron dome? >> traveling significantly higher and having potential penetration aids. and counter measures. >> cnn reached out to the u.s. missile defense agency. when asked about the report findings a spokesman cited this defense report from january. it says the missile defense system has demonstrated a measure capability to defend the united states, deploy forces and allies from a rogue nations mim missile attack and most advanced radar will be able to separate the warhead from a cloud of decoys. u.s. think tank says these images show an undeclared north korea missile base. miles from the chinese border. a potential

number one, on defense, people need to realize that when you talk about defense today it is not we have 100 destroyers and they have 150 destroyers. what it has become is a technological race. we have been caught with our pants down on hypersonic. we may be in the process of being caught with our pants down on other defense systems also, in other words underwater propulsion. so think technology. don't think of the number of tanks and how big the army is. that takes a lot of money, and we obviously have not been spending enough on it because we just got caught with our pants down on hypersonic. number two, on billionaires, i am of two minds about billionaires. my first thought is billionaires made all these pronouncements about how they needed to be taxed more during the last election year and i am thinking, let's those democrats go. you wanted more taxes? you got them. sit it in your lap and live with it. my other mind is that with democrats and taxes, the beginning is never the end. the beginning is never the end. they are looking at billionaires today but soon they will say, that work

missile defense agency.fense report from january. it says the missile defense system has demonstrated a measure of capability to defend the united states, deploy forces and alloys from a rogue nation's missile attack, and that its most advanced radar will be able to separate the warhead from a cloud of decoys. u.s. think tank csis says this shows an undeclared north korean missile days miles from the chinese border, a potential launch site for icbms. >> we need to understand there is no military solution. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador joseph yeun believes the only option is to take a page from the playbook of donald trump and reach out directly to kim jong-un. do you think it's a mistake the biden administration is not focus mortgage on north korea? >> i think it is a mistake. i think the longer this situation continues, more serious will the provocations be. >> reporter: he says diplomacy may be the only way to keep the missiles from flying, to keep america safe. will ripley, cnn, taipei. >>> for four

these largely led by the department of defense. only to watch them quickly krimible to the taliban last august. we watched iraqi security forces to which we devoted billions in equipment and training flee before isis thugs in pickups in 2014. now we have a new opportunity to reset our security relationship with iraq. today we see countries in africa struggling to counter insurgents and terrorist amidst coups and pervasive unrest and conflict. it's clear that our security assistance and cooperation programs are not achieving their intended outcomes. despite the billions spent and dedicated efforts of the departments of state and defense. we, congress included, are not conceptualizing the problem. we need to understand that our security assistance should be rooted in concrete, measurable and achievement outcomes rooted in sustainable security development, not just assistance. we must develop a comprehensive multi-year plan that integrate u.s. assistance programs across the board that reflect the understanding that democracy, good gov

intact armor and air defense capabilities. ukraine's air force does have several squadrons of mission capable aircraft in this contested airspace. but what we're seeing is that they really need greater air defense and frankly as we and our allies and partners are rushing this assistance to them we are seeing the operational impact of it on the battlefield every single day. >> so you're saying they don't need planes. >> what i'm saying is we are trying to provide everything we can really help them with air defense but we don't see significant effectiveness tied to those airplanes specifically. >> if were getting an air defense we better give it to them soon. the horrific pictures yesterday or today's news about the bombing of a maternity hospital, if we cannot be moved by that i don't know what we can be moved by. i'm not going ngto belabor the point except to say either we're going to get them some air defense systems so they can protect themselves or we need to engage them in terms of the jet question. let's return to some br

department of defense. >> outstanding. that i mention it's in my congressional district? >> ico know that, absent a. >> thank you and i look forward to hosting out there. i'd be happy to host you. >> thank you. >> general nakasone, just quickly. it seems information operations subcomponents appear to be fractured across the defense apparatus. and despite the forthcoming doctrine for operations in the information environment there doesn't seem to be a jointly recognized idea on what information operations should prioritize. doti you believe that establishg a subunified combatant command for information operations within uscybercom could allow for joint information operations training and execution? >> congressman i'm not sure it's a fit for a solution that's built to a subunified command. here's what i do believe. we use information operations in every cyber mission we do. it's that, important to what's going on toor be able to communicate a message to an adversary. what i would say is we need more information offering info

while the limit defense growth before inflation, not defense spending will get a larger increase. not all domestic spending, our border security and the department of homeland security barely tread water, just like our troops. other agencies and departments that are more useful for the far left agenda like the irs, the epa, make out like bandits with gigantic increases of 20% and 30% since 2021. they want to pour money into absurdities like the u.n. green climate fund. borrow from china to fund of the bureaucracy, they will hand money back to china. there is plenty of money for anti-gun regulations, free lawyers for illegal immigrants and something called environmental justice. this whole far left peace gives out the reckless spending spree that democrats failed to pass last year and are now trying to revive. the biden administration once all that spending too but they cannot even budget for it honestly. all of the bloated liberal nonsense comes with the biggest tax hike in american history. a $2.5 bomb of tax dropped on an economy that the democrats policies have already heard ba

then we saw the department of defense walk that back.y request of you would be if it there's new intelligence, if you could work with the committee in the appropriate setting to share with us what's driving that decision. i understand there are a number of logistical considerations that must be rel vant, but i would appreciate getting that help in an appropriate setting to understand how we can have such a difference of opinion occur. in such a short period. to senator murphy's point, the we worked a great deal on this topic. and certain of our alloys are very important partners. when i served as ambassador to japan, i put a great deal of time working not only with the dod, the state department, but also with the united states senate trying to find ways to accelerate the timeline for military sales. what i learned when i was serving in my previous role is the timeline is far too long to get our allies equipped with the latest technology that they should be desiring to have and desire for them to have. given the rate of technology develop

we are spending too much on defense. i am a big defense guy, but we need to refocus.e need to spend -- we have 160 bases around the world. we do not need to be focusing every area of the world. china is our number one competitor that we need to be focused on. the more we spend on nato, the less they spend on themselves. they need to be upfront on this ukraine thing and we need to set up another nato type organization in the pacific with japan, south korea, australia surrounding china. so refocusing our expenditures not just throwing money at issues, which is what government wants to do. it does not provide a better result by just spending money so refocus. host: that is michael on our republican line. let's go to cliff in the virgin islands, line for democrats. caller: i agree with the last caller. we are spending too much money on the military. with the war on you -- what the war on ukraine showing us is the weapons we have been producing over the last four years or 50 years to ensure mutually assured destruction and not get us into war, what it is showing now is we

they're going to strengthen and expand their air defense and missile shields. there are going to to deploy more troops, more ships, more jats at. they were quite clear condemning rushes war on ukraine in their statement. they are demanding russia to withdraw its troops to seize or operations on ukraine soil. they're also calling on china. this was significant to not support russia in any way, and also to condemn russia's war on ukraine. and they're also ready to, as you said, provide protective gear and medicine and other things to ukraine. or if there could be because there are more it that russia could use a chemical or by a g biological weapons there and sold them back. also stressed and the preferred that nato allies are now activating their defense units with regards to the potential use of such weapons of mass destruction and our center. could you just tell us a bit more about what the insult burns had about further support for ukraine? there was a question about president salenti speaking directly to nato today, asking for fighter, just asking for more e

on the subject of defense spending the reality is across the west we have not spent enough on defense for a number of years. we have seen a buildup of military capability from russia. in terms of technology and number sidewalk when the fact germans are increasing their defense spending producing other countries not going to preempt any further discussions between the chancellor and the defense secretary. but as well as conventional defense we also need to step up our efforts in areas like information but one the things the united states and united kingdom have been doing is using information exposing intelligent we have two call out putin's playbook i think that is been very important. the fact is the united kingdom abandon its information unit at the end of the cold war and the russians did not abandon their information unit. we need to be making sure on every possible front spread with its conventional defense, whether it's technology, or whether indeed it is information we are able to outcompete our adversaries. >> thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> t

right now at 17 chiefs of defense and six ministers of defense in the united states. they know that they get the best education and training when they come here. they want to come here and what we try to work with his $13 million annually is to have sustained consistent personnel from their militaries defending her professional military education. >> these are relatively small investments in southcom a region without assigned forces as general richardson said and i would suggest to my committee colleagues watch this space. i think there will be a budget submitted to us very soon and look at the dollars for southcom. have a great concern that challenges elsewhere in the world will make these de minimis investments and shrink them even more and if that's the case i'm going to be advocating strongly that we don't do less. we do more in the region. my understanding general richardson is with respect to the cyber aspect cremations zyklon b are dealing with a lot of cyber attacks. they get particularly active around elections and the affections happening in the region this

intelligence agencies and others in the department of defense. >> outstanding. and did i mention it's in my congressional district. >> absolutely. >> thank you, i look forward to hope gush posting you. -- hosting you. general, it seems that the information operation subcomponents seem to be fractured across the apparatus and despite the doctrine for operations in the environment, there does not seem to be a jointly recognized idea on what information operations should prioritize. do you believe that establishing this within u.s. cybercom could help? >> i'm not sure it is a solution built to a sub unified command. and every cyber mission that we do, it is important to be able to communicate a message to an adversary. what i would say is we need more information operations trained personnel that come to our command. that is one of the areas and working very closely with the services. i know my own service and other services have taken is on seriously, i think that is what we have to get to first, let's get more trained information operation specialists, that's int

that is, on the defensive side. in order to deter the defense of component andpo the offense of component. some of our long-range capabilities are also critical to ensure that we have both of those capabilities to deter. >> i have just a few seconds. my first question, on what would it look like did not get answered. if the conflict did arise entire on. it is different than what we do for ukraine. >> before i recognize representative bolton, there is a vote on the floor of the house. 4000 people left to vote. a motion to adjourn. we will continue per the chairs instructions. the chair recognizes for five minutes. >> thank you. do you agree with the marine corps strategy to maintain pressure on china in the pacific >> yes, congressman, ideal. as a part of deterrence against that competitor, it will take the entire joint force. i credit both the commandant as well as the chief of staff of the army to adjust their forms for the regimen concept to be able to be expeditionary forward and provide support from the land com

the department of missile-defense funding guam. >> the department is in the final stages of the missile-defense review which will lay out a strategy and priorities forthcoming alongside the defense strategy in the coming weeks. >> think you. >> that's all i have mr. chairman all yield back to you. >> mr. keating's reckoning for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman a question two days ago they were sent to parliament the reason the india of spain in the un recently with russian aggression was economic and d defense oriented. can you enlighten any of us as to what areas of defense she could've been alluding to in what is your opinion on the inability of the un in favor of condemning russia and had i could be defense oriented. >> thank you, congressman i start on that. there was a reference to this issue as well rate i would start by saying from the u.s. perspective in india is an essential partner everything about our strategy in terms of how rebuilding coalition partners as well as dealing with potential adversaries. we recognize that india has a completed history and relationship with russi

origin defense capabilities almost entirely by buying into the defense department procurement process and international military and education and training that enables foreign military personnel to study beside their u.s. counterparts. in addition the bureau concurs on behalf of the secretary of state with multiple department of defense security cooperation authorities totaling approximately $9 billion annually as required by law. and we share this burden, a security challenged -- uh security with our allies and partners and we work together to address the challenges around the world. these tools, mr. chairman, apply not only in times of crisis, but help us shape a world that is less susceptible to such threats. as we turn as well to the pacing threat from the p.r.c. and its model of autocracy poses to the rules-based order, we can look to security cooperation and security assistance as a key element of our response. for decades, for example, we have worked to strengthen our security cooperation with key allies such as japan and south korea, while creating new partnerships with count

>> first they are defensive weapons. not to hear or the white house but from the department of defense to assess what is effective and what works in terms of fighting the war on the ground and that is why we provided an additional $1 billion or 800 million. and utilizing a number of the high level military systems in the anti- armor systems that we know have been effective and the ukrainians are trained on. third that you force already has several squadrons but that. >> they have said with us mission to ukraine that we have also heard the official mission is to prevent escalation on ukraine. which is it? >> if we are not specific with the desired outcome. >> as sovereign ukraine with an understanding beyond. >> . >> with the nuclear deal so everything they can see is the white house with the igr on —- i grc? >> we are still in negotiations. i will not speculate what the final details look like. >> as long as americans are not killed and all in an effort. >> again you are speculating on something that is not even finalize

that's on the defensive side.but to your point, right, in order to deter there's both defensive component and an offense of component. so some of our long-range capabilities in the form of hypersonics are also critical to ensure that we both of those capabilities to deter. >> okay. i just have a few seconds. i will just note that my first question, dr. ratner, on what would it look like didn't get answered. i just didn't it's a complicated question to answer if a conflict did arise in taiwan, but just to prepare our country for what it will look like. is the defense of taiwan different from what we're doing for ukraine? >> yes, i think would be different. >> okay. i'll yield back. >> gentleman gets back. before i recognized mr. moulton a reminder there's a vote on the floor of the house, 4000 people left to vote. the motion to adjourn. we're just going to continue through the vote per the chairs instructions. chair recognizes mr. moulton for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. 202-748-8001 agree with the mar

defense? that the minister of defense, because there was one passage that we did not publish, but we also decided not to present it to the public, but for exactly the same reason, why did the ministry of defense tried to block our youtube channel that we see today and succeeded. uh, there were indeed british military secrets that could have done some serious damage, but they were n't told by us. they were told by their minister. yes, and it's just quite interesting and interesting. it’s enough that you didn’t show it, i mean , you worried about the safety of britain but we are still law-abiding people, and if it would somehow violate the norms of this youtube community, we would not publish. yeah well its in any the case was blocked, so uh, it's not at all clear why the ministry of defense is at war with two private individuals from russia and demands so plaintively. block the video, because some kind of russian propaganda is supposedly posted there, but propaganda is about conveying thoughts

air defense assets. thank you to this commission for the service that you provide for security and stability in the transatlantic community, including the baltic region. i look forward to your questions. senator wicker thank you very : much. our third and final witness will be the chair of the foreign affairs committee in the parliament of latvia. welcome. we're delighted to hear from you. chair kols: thank you, distinguishing members of the commission. as a concluding intervention, i think i have the task of most challenging, which is to describe the threats that are blurred and those are the hybrid threats and the hybrid warfare that the baltic countries have been experiencing since regaining our independence. so to start with, the russian general once said, the role of nonmilitary means of achieving political goals has grown. in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness. this encompasses what i will be addressing here today. since regaining our independence in

beijing announced they're increasing defense spending again this year by more than 7%. so, amid all this, the white house has proposed no meaningful increase in resources for protecting innocent americans, promoting our interests, supporting our partners, assisting ukraine or replenishing our stockpiles. president biden likes to give speeches about the need for american leadership in the world, but when the rubber meets the road, when it's time to invest so we can rise and meet challenges like russia and china, this president has again decided to do exactly the opposite. putin and xi will sleep more soundly at night if the biden administration gets its way on defense funding than if republicans get ours. now, let's look at the places where president biden does want to pull out all the stops and hand out massive funding increases. our armed forces may get the short end of the stick from this white house, but plenty, plenty of far-left defense priorities will be literally swimming in cash. while they limit defense to 4% growth before inflation, nondefense spending would g

yesterday the administration sent us a classified national defense strategy. i hope the unclassified version is coming soon. the strategy was late in part because the biden administration revisited what were likely rosy assumptions about china a good reminder we must deal with the world and not as we would have it be. our plan to deal with that world rests on the foundation of military power and less focus on actions, not words or credible deterrents. four weeks ago secretary blinken said, quote, the president believes sanctions are intended to deter. last week the president himself said, quote, sanctions never do to her. nothing about this makes sense. deterrence failed in ukraine, we must ensure it does not fail anywhere else. the costs of war are greater than the cost of preventing war. we must ensure that our combatant commands, what they need to credibly deter our adversaries to address the challenges of strategic competition, these threats highlight the need for growth in the defense budget and a sense of urgency and willingness to take risks at the pent

the secretary of defense director of the u.s.y with a four-star general to conduct an independent review of the us africom investigation to ensure the department had a complete look at the causes of the attack the secretary of the army appointed me to execute that review and i with the support of sister services with other officers from across the department of defense training and intelligence collectively the panel had 412 years of military service 53 years of combat service and approximately 107 years of command. the expertise and knowledge was critical to the process. the secretary of defense tasked and independent review to assess the entire africom investigation to include with the assignment process. and then to be appropriate for the mission. the secretary with additional focus areas and with the actions or inactions of leaders and staff contributed to a poor understanding of the threat of deadly and adequate force protection posture so the findings of the original investigation or other misconduct are consistent with the

s. ministry of defense. they established the attack, the tasks and the workload with as part of the projects on ukraine in territory. and i said, for a list of the necessary equipment and the delegated significant authority to an affiliated contract, a company, black and vh with cooperation or with ukrainian bodies of our authority. the recipient of american assistance with ukrainian defense ministry and they were allowed timely access for pentagon and contractor staff to laboratories on you can treat knows to carry out work as part of these project. and also to provide access to these facilities. along with the pentagon staff foreign scientists to the projects themselves included implementing was it was implemented not by the ukrainian scientists, scientists, but with their participation, but simply the ukraine authorities gave the pentagon carte blanche on the territory of ukraine to carry out a dangerous biological experiments where the american contractors at the same time was free, got a tax break under

air defense systems.n to continue to reinforce those things that have worked for the ukrainian forces. >> and so, what they are talking with slovakia and the slovakians say they are willing to do it. it's just getting that country to put their s300 air defense system into ukraine. that will help the ukrainians defend their airspace against the russians, the slovakians making it very clear they need something in their own country to defend their airspace. bianna? >> made that very clear. barbara starr, thank you so much. joining me now to discuss, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling. always great to have you on, mark. explain these weapons and what they can do. let's start with the stingers and javelins. >> the stinger is a shoulder fired man portable air defense system, bianna. it is very good, but it only has a maximum range up to about 3,000 feet into the air. so it can knock down targets like jets and specifically, helicopters. it's very good against those targets but it has a limited

what kind of defensive alliance is this, which itself determines the line of its defense?ver, including in itself strange, which no one was even going to, not only that there was no thought to attack there , in order to threaten these countries, and now mr. stoltenberg, who apparently has the norwegian central bank, will not wait soon, but who remains at the head nato is already saying that nato must be held accountable for the global security. this is where the line of defense passes. this is where democracy turns into autocracies into dictatorships. indeed, nato is playing an ever- growing role not only in european security, as the minister said, but is also taking on global tasks. if we consider the changes that have taken place literally recently after the summit, which there was a new emphasis, which appeared due to the fact that the well- known 2014 formula was diplazed by the torrent defense here, it has a baron, and the process is going on, as stoltenberg himself said, uh, reset reset. what is this reset on the one hand, and the number of nato troops on the eastern

including the office of defense and the cia's defensive group. thank you for your participation in the floor is yours. >> that you very much for the infotech's -- introduction and invitation. to the cochairmen and congressman for the opportunity. i was asked today to focus specifically on the risk of nuclear escalation. nuclear strategy has been one of my main areas of focus on the past two decades. i will explain today that think there is a real risk putin could use weapons in the war of ukraine. at the same time explain i think the biden administration and nato can up their military support to ukraine without increasing the risk of nuclear war. that might sound contradictory, so let me explain. i think is important to understand that putin does not want a declare war either. getting into a nuclear war, a neato wash -- russia war -- a nato russia war does not serve him. we have seen him back down in the past when it looked like things were escalating. we have to remember is two-sided. it is not only the west that is afraid of escalation, it is a

department of defense perspective with the deterrence and activity. i'm very familiar with the challenges faced. he's familiar with the challenges that we faced in europe and when it comes to the transactions that take place between russia and china, we are both very dialed into that as a result of the architecture process in place in the department. >> one issue my office is heard from servicemembers throughout the pandemic was how the delays negatively impacted including service members due to the contractors and services. do you feel the ability has improved and adapted to the new normal since the onset of the pandemic? >> senator, we are also concerned about the industry writ large with the contest of the logistics in the homeland with all aspects. i do believe we are headed to a more stable future with respect to the labor market and the ability to complete the contract. it indicates we will have a capacity necessary to ensure that this doesn't happen to the future. in the last few moments, we are seeing news reports that moscow is committing to

-- national defense strategy is being rewritten. other changed since february 18? mr. kirby: what i would tell you is the national defense strategy is still being crafted. this went to be heavily informed by the president's interim national security guidance. it is being written in parallel with the national security strategy which has not been completed yet. and you're right, the secretary was clear that it will reinforce his enforce of an integrated deterrence and it will ensure that china remains the pacing deterrent for the department. it will also recognize other nationstate threats and that includes russia. as we have been writing it, we have been writing it as we watched russia over the last couple months build up this massive military force around ukraine's borders, so it would be foolish to think that the crafting of it was not also informed by what we have been seeing russia do, but being rewritten as a result of what we are seeing. i think that overstates it heavily, but it will certainly be informed by what we have been

my team works closely with affirmative defense, congress and the us defense industry deliver tools and training that support foreign policy, strengthens our allies and partners ability to provide their defense and contributes meaningfully to the stability of the international order. day-to-day the bureau of political military affairs oversee $7 billion of security assistance programs which accounts for 20% of that affirmative state and total annual assistance. this assistance includes foreign military financing and appropriated grant assistance programs through which partners prepare us origin defense capabilities almost entirely by buying into the distance the permit security process and international military, education and training that enables foreign military personnel to decide their us counterparts in addition to bureau concurs on behalf of the secretary of state with multiple debarment of defense security cooperation authorities totaling $9 billion annually as required by law and we share this burden of security challenges with allies and partners and work together to address c

uh, we continue soon, the main topic state defense order.t is being successfully carried out and even ahead of schedule, with all the current difficulties, priority is given to high-precision long-range weapons of aviation equipment and advanced weapons such as robotic systems. it is also important to maintain the combat readiness of strategic nuclear forces. and now about the heroes of these days, behind the successes of the special military operation, the courage of our military personnel and, of course, the highest skill of commanders, knowledge, experience and ability to quickly solve problems in a combat situation lieutenant. artyom gladky, with his tank platoon, captured a bridgehead at the enemy airfield, set fire to guided missiles. tankers competently maneuvered and accurately hit targets, destroyed enemy armored vehicles . a platoon of paratroopers led by lieutenant rasim ilyazov held the defense of strategic facilities. including bridge fighters. the airborne forces repulsed eight attempts, assault and liquidated large forces. ene

this our region, air defense with antiaircraft and long range missile defense is crucial. we need our own iron dome. air defense over the baltic states has to be enhanced inclouding by deploying necessary assets such as combat and surface-based air defense of short, medium and long range missiles in and around the baltic states. it would show a political backbone of nato and give us credibility that nato is will protect every inch of its territory. for that we need a strong political will in the u.s. side. firm support of the u.s. congress for a persistent military presence and capability development in the baltic region is crucial. lithuania is serious about its defense spending, which will reach 2.5% of our gdp this year. we will not stop at that. ladies and gentlemen, while russia remains the biggest and the most em innocent cob vengs threat, china is becoming a threat to our national security. while putin's regime is using heavy weaponry, china is weaponizing economic regulations. china is eager to dominate, not to cooperate. we have always backed the u.s. efforts in d

and defense role.he people's republic of china is also active in the ucomm alr and we know the prc and russia collaborate in arenas including joint military exercises. this strategic competition is monitored closely. this work is only possible with stable funding. congressional support for u.s. forces deployed as well as funding for defense initiatives across europe and security assistance for ukraine will continue to be critical to achieving u.s. national security objectives. russia's actions brought to light the contrast between our, craddick values and rules-based values and russia's autocratic, violent vision. the department of the fence and other department send agencies, nato allies and close consultation with congress, we will continue to work for a stable europe. thank you. i appreciate your continued to support to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and guardians and civilians at the department of defense who work in the service of the american people. chair: thank you. general wolters. gen. wo

this is the most important treasure that we have in our defense uses car than we are. that's why i said, we will come see to an ultimatum. only when we no longer exist, you'll get cool enough nibbled conditions. and maria, pull a worsening by the day with rushes ultimatum ignored. the city's remaining residence can do little but take shelter and hope that a ceasefire will come soon. our next gas is alexandra madrid. shack from keith. she's the human rights lawyer and the head of non profit organization, the center for civil liberties. thank you for taking the time to speak with d w. news. i want to start by saying we're hearing from you as and you can officials that the russian invasion is not going as planned. it's not going according to planet stalling. are you concerned that the kremlin will ramp up attacks on soft targets like schools and residential areas targeting civilians? what is the credit for all ready started to do in a 3rd with the 1st day of the work? because from the 1st day of the work, we the combined to deliberate a challenge to be just like residenti