defenses.are behind the eight ball. host: this is from randy in michigan. on our yes line. caller: i would like to start by thanking you in all the other men and the woman it takes to bring us this program. you are doing us a great service. i think it should be but i have two caveats. one, you cannot spend it on 17th-century defenses like motes, walls, lances or rowboats. two, match domestic spending with it. you have to take care of the people of this country just as much is you have to defend them or does not make any sense. we need to have national healthcare. that is how i feel about that. i have no problem raising the defense ending but we have to spend it wisely and we have to spend just as much on the domestic and our people. we have to keep this nation healthy so we can have a healthy military and that is how i look at it. host: ok. representative liz cheney saying that the defense budget fails to fund our military at a level to counter the growing threats we face and keep our country s

because the ukranians had substantial air defense remaining, air defense capabilities remaining, they were able to deny the russians to establish air superiority. the russians will continue to try to find ways to take out all of their air defense capabilities and we need to stale focused on this and we are providing them the capabilities to replenish those if they are taken out. this is a work in progress. we will continue to resupply them with the types of systems that you have seen us employ them. short-range, medium-range and long-range air defense systems. those long-systems play a critical role and if those are taken out, working with our allies and partners to make sure we are providing them additional are capability as quickly as possible. [indiscernible] secretary austin: we will continue to use those systems that have been most effective. [indiscernible] secretary austin: bob, that's what we have focused on and that was really a key element in the meeting that we conducted on tuesday. we need to not only get the capability there to them quickly, but it needs to be the right k

deborah rosenblum, assistant secretary of defense for defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs. dr. john plumb and vice admiral green. there are few greater challenges to u.s. national interests than those posed by weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats. dtra takes pride in providing technological, operational, intellectual capacity within a department to meet these challenges. our world-class workforce and unprovoked professional network, access and credibility give us an unmatched advantage enabling the department of defense, u.s. government and international partners to detect, deter and defeat weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats in all theaters. as both defense agency and a combat board a kiss in principle counter of weapons of mass destruction organization within the defense department we serve as a linchpin between the strategies and its practitioners. through ms. rosenblum and dr. plumb and their comportment the guidance priorities and oversight in the areas of nuclear matters, cabled and biological defense, threat reduction and arms contr

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so because the ukrainians had substantial air defense remaining, air defense capabilities remaining, they were able to deny the russians the ability to establish air superiority. the russians as you would imagine will continue to try to find ways toin take out air defense capabilities. and we need to stay focused on the scene to make sure that we are providing them the capability to replenish those air defense capabilities if they are taken out. so a this is a work in progress. we will continue to resupply them with the types of systems that you've seen us provide them short range, medium range and most important, long-range air defense systems. those systems like the x300 play a critical role and if those were taken out, weta will make sure we are working with our allies and partners to provide them additional capability as quickly as possible. >> we don't have a new type to announce. we will continue to use those systems that have been most effective. [inaudible] >> that's what we have been focused on and that is a key element in the meeting that we conducted on tuesday. wet need n

as both the defense agency and a combat support agency in the principal counter -- within the defense department, we service as the lynch pin to put you in the departments counted opportunity strategies and is practitioners. three must present moment out, glamour that's part of the, compounds agency reduces missive gutters, proudest and oversight in the areas of nuclear matters, chemical and biological defense, threat production, and arms control. at the same time, we support u.s. special operations command role as the coordinating authority for counter weapons of mass destruction in when work very closely with the vice admiral greenstaff as well as those of the other combatant commands providing strategic, operational, and tactical planning and expertise as well as embedded support and material and non material countering weapons of mass destruction solutions. these dual roles provide the synergy that is key to the successful executed of our counter w on the mission that supports the nation's, the national defense strategy version of integrated utterance. the work that we plan, progr

defenses.e are behind the eight ball. host: this is from randy in michigan. on our yes line. caller: i would like to start by thanking you in all the other men and the woman it takes to bring us this program. you are doing us a great service. i think it should be but i have two caveats. one, you cannot spend it on 17th-century defenses like motes, walls, lances or rowboats. two, match domestic spending with it. you have to take care of the people of this country just as much is you have to defend them or does not make any sense. we need to have national healthcare. that is how i feel about that. i have no problem raising the defense ending but we have to spend it wisely and we have to spend just as much on the domestic and our people. we have to keep this nation healthy so we can have a healthy military and that is how i look at it. host: ok. representative liz cheney saying that the defense budget fails to fund our military at a level to counter the growing threats we face and keep our country

is this coming out of the defense budget? are there extra defense appropriations? >> the javelins and the stingers and body armour, all of those things have come out of the funding that was provided in the supplemental omnibus -- >> so there is going to be a replenishment as well. we will have to replenish stocks that we are supplying and also replenishment to some of our nato allies. will that come out of the future defense budget? this is not a argument question, i am genuinely curious. >> well, the funds were to replenish the drawdown materials provided to ukraine. the first of that was notified last friday that $1.5 billion of that will start flowing. were it to continue, that might be something we need to look at going forward. >> two other questions. you wrestled with inflation as you were preparing the budget, you said the general cpi rate doesn't necessarily apply to the things you buy, is that correct? it's not accurate to say if we have 7% inflation, and the military budget doesn't have 7% increased, then it's a cut. please explain the inflation as it app

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

on national defense. this year, beijing announced an additional 7.1% increase in the defense budget. this is a scary thing. this is a big deal. mr. secretary, i do appreciate based on the new nds that you went to the white house to ask for more resources. i appreciate that very much. even then, the budget just doesn't rise to the moment. it doesn't deliver the real growth our military needs. it says very clearly in this document, in the very beginning of the document, that 3% to 5% range is where we need to be. that real growth is a recommendation and comes from the bipartisan committee. the budget also doesn't -- with the record high inflation, we are seeing today, in the realm of 7% to 8%, and on the bipartisan basis, congress tried to give our defense budget real growth in 2022. the military will end up losing buying power due to the inflation. this historic inflation is -- i call it the new sequestration. for me, this isn't just about how much we spend on defense. this is about how we spend the money.

to the defense.h ammunition, but so far the armed forces of ukraine and the formation of territorial defense militants nationalist formations, but continues to maintain the possibility of active defense, acts quite competently and skillfully. and as a matter of fact, the huge losses as a result of fire damage to aesthetic forces are not a judgment. well, the tactics of using nomadic mortars of units failed russian special forces, these sabotage groups with mobile mortars. around here they were actually destroyed. but heavy artillery, rocket artillery. ah, they continue to work. uh, use a means of counter-battery, a western-made wrestling is used by ukrainian units. here, at least, i have a means of communication from western production, that is, i have a good connection, and the aviation of ukrainian formations continues to work here, in particular, army aviation helicopters, and even planes sometimes take off. uh, attack aviation is used by ukrainian, but by formations, but uh, first of all, uh, v.

that defense partnership. india is an important partner in the region, in the indo-pacific region, and we're going to continue to look for ways to improve that partnership. and india should be able to speak for their own national policies with respect to what's going on in russia and ukraine. we've been very honest about where we are on this and the actions we're taking and the things that we're doing, but the other things that we're doing are looking for ways to make sure we deepen that partnership with india. david? reporter: how would a chinese military shipment to serbia help the russians? sec. kirby: i'm not saying that it would, david. i'm not confirming it. i'm just saying that if that's the intent, if it's some sort of potential option of getting assistance to russia, obviously we would not consider that helpful, but i'm not confirming that it happened, and i'm not, and as i said before, i'm not confirming what their intent is. reporter: have you seen any evidence that china has provided any support, a

we're following for you today. us defense secretary lloyd austin is hosting some 40 defense ministers of the u. s. air base, and lunchtime germany and hope of increasing the flow of weaponry to ukraine. germany has already authorized shipments of anti aircraft systems directly to ukraine. for washington, w. stay tuned for it. dw business with chris colbert from the nurse force also plenty more on our website and its d. w dot com. thanks for a company. with us we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, man corner a hot spot for food channel and some great cultural memorials to brood d, w, travel off we go to own or not to.

ukraine is waging a defensive war, so there is no difference between the supply of defensive and offensive. and on fm is a fighting, my trip is very simple, it's just three weapon points, and more weapons. i call on all allies to put aside their reluctance and hesitation in providing ukraine with everything it needs, including weapons today. strange as it may sound, weapons serve the purposes of the world. that's all in the coming days, i will visit kiev together with the president of the european commission. we will meet with president zelensky the ministers of foreign affairs and defense the most important thing is to continue pressure on russia and continue to support ukraine, zelensky has a lot of support. but what he really needs is more guns, less applause and more guns. against the background of putin's horrendous aggression in ukraine, the g7 and nato have decided to step up efforts on the issue of sanctions and weapons. the uk is imposing a ban on all imports of russian energy resources. we are imposing sanctions on even more banks. we are increasing the supply of weapons to ukrai

forces of our gray defenses of odesa and odessa. yesterday , the night before, the enemy tried to launch a missile attack on certain infrastructure objects from the sea, and thank god that three missiles, three enemy missiles, were destroyed, and some were hit, even on their own i saw it happen with my eyes, and they said that it was very scary , but they were happy for the fact that it was possible to destroy the enemy. well , at the moment, we have a situation, of course, a lot of questions arise regarding the situation in the area the border with the so-called transnistria was carried out ahead of time there, not even in connection with these provocations that have been taking place there in recent days in transnistria, and the reinforced protection and defense of our state border was carried out, and the relevant combat tasks, emphasize the combat tasks, were also received by units of the armed forces of ukraine and other structures that are part of the defense forces here as a whole. if we talk about the situation in the south,

and defense role. the 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.

in all, non-defense spends grows by 12%, three times more than defense. using gdp as a metric, defense spending will total 3.1% of gdp, non-defense will total 18% of gdp. nearly six types more than defense. i know the numbers are inconvenient to many people in the white house. what the president is proposing is far from what's needed to maintain a credible deterrent. under the old strategy, we needed an increase of 3% to 5% over inflation to stay ahead of china. the new national defense strategy departs little from the last one. i suspect the new commission we are appointing to review the national defense strategy will recommend at least that level of funding. if this budget was truly driven by risk, 5% above inflation is the level of growth we would see. that's not the case. this budget fails to account for the record inflation the department is facing and severely underestimates its impact over the next year. it robs us of capabilities to carry out missions. most regrettably, it gives china more time to enhance their military advantage. address the need

intelligence enterprise and the defense intelligence agencies and others in the department of defense. >> out standing. did i mention it's in my congressional district? >> absolutely. >> thank you. if you do come out there i would look forward to hosting you. thank you. >> thank you. >> just quickly, it seems like the sub components, despite the forthcoming doctrine, there doesn't seem to be a jointly recognized idea on what information operations should priorities. do you believe that establishing a sub unified combatant command for operations within u.s. cyber calm could allow for joint information operations training and execution? >> congressman, i am not sure it's a fit or a solution that is built to a sub unified kphapbt. here's what i do believe. we use information operations in every cyber mission we do. it's that important to what is going on 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. i know my own service and other services have taken this on very seriously, and that

in fact, territorial defense is incapable. when there is no civilian rattling, there will be some kind of olga. thank you very much zhenya eugene like our military commander in direct communication raisins of the kharkov region, slavic direction, but we have just received a new statement from major general kanashenkov. operational situation to this minute attention. high-precision long-range weapons on the northern outskirts of the city of kremenchug destroyed facilities for the production of refinery fuel plant, as well as storage facilities with oil products to ensure the military equipment of the grouping of ukrainian troops during the night, high-precision air-launched missiles hit six military facilities of ukraine, including three strong points and places of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as three ammunition depots in the barvenkovo ​​area . and the new dmitrovka, kharkov region , during the night, rocket troops delivered 19 strikes and destroyed four nationalist command posts. including the ei

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

right now i have 17 chiefs of defense and 6 ministers of defense that have been to school in the united states. they know they get the best education and training when they come here. they want to come here. and what we try to work with at $13 million annually is to have sustained, consistent personnel from their militaries attending our professional military education. >> these are both relatively small investments in southcom. a region without assigned forces, as general richardson says. and i'm going to suggest to watch this space. i think there's going to be a budget submitted to us soon. and look at the dollars. i have grave concern that challenges elsewhere in the world are going to take these investments and shrink them even more. and if that's the case, i'm going to be advocating strongly we don't do less, but we do more in the region. my understanding is also with respect to cyber assets. i know nations are dealing with a lot of cyber attacks and misinformation from actors. they get particularly active around elections. there are many elections happening this year. cyber comman

the meeting of defense ministers of more than 40 countries has started in germany. it is dedicated to military aid to ukraine. forces of the united states of america, general mark milley, the main task of the negotiations is the synchronization and coordination of military aid to kyiv, in addition to what the secretary of defense of the united states, lloyd austin, said, the russian federation's war against ukraine is entering a new phase, so the partners should help ukraine and stop the aggressor ukraine clearly believes that it can win and everyone here also needs our help for this, not only now but also after the end of the war, the invasion of russia is groundless and illegal, it is a challenge to the international order based on rules this is a challenge to free people all over the world, we see that the nations of the world are united in their determination to support ukraine in its struggle against the imperial aggression of russia. britain is increasing humanitarian support to help damaged ukrainians this was reported to the hospitals by prime minister boris

although the german defense minister also planned to speak, it was not shown.s simply no reason for the owner to come. let's fast forward to the kharkiv region with us on the direct line of our battleship yevgeny poddubny or already in the dpr because we do not have time to follow your movements yevgeny where are you how is the situation? where eugene well, our group is working just on the verge of the kharkiv region ukraine and the occupied territory of the donetsk people's republic although some settlements have already been liberated by the forces of the russian army, these are the first settlements that have been liberated from the northern direction, quite symbolically. in fact, hostilities are already taking place in the immediate vicinity of the slavic kramatorsk agglomeration in general. and i looked at zhenya to slavyansk in a straight line from the front line. now about 25 km. i remind you that 8 years ago at this very time. our film crew has already worked in slavic, and therefore for us. it is quite symbolic that the fighting continues along the ent

long-range air defense. such as the s300 play a critical role if they are disabled by us allies. we hope to replace them as soon as possible. you did not say about the new type of american air defense there are no new types of air defense we will use the most effective systems. we need not only to get the weapons there quickly, but also to get the right types of weapons , long -range weapons will be the most important, and therefore we are trying to supply them with these weapons. as soon as possible and i think you you know, it was the president who signed the decree on aid in the amount of $800 million on thursday, and on saturday the first howitzers were delivered. this is exactly the speed at which we work and we call. our allies and partners to work with us to move forward as quickly as possible to come up with the best advertising for our missile defense system and the s-300 air defense system, dear western partners eastern partners, those with whom we are friends, friendly partners are ready to sell y

we're building up a defense industrial base to support it. that was also another important element of this because there's a lot of weapon systems right now going into ukraine to defend themselves. all of these things, as steve said, are critical. we have not seen the nations of the world come together like this ever before. when you're talking about going back to world war ii where there was an axis of nazi germny, italy and japan taking on the entire world, that was at least a cabal, an ax, is, if you will and it took awhile to get a coalition against them. you have a coalition right now against one country. one country that's doing something evil and the message is loud and clear. the fact that the u.n. secretary-general is there today probably to tell putin, will you stop this illegal invasion is critically important as well. the world is against putin and against russia right now. >> thank you all so much for being here. it's an important moment and an important day and great to have you all. really appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, a

area defense lobbyists. don't take my word, for take their.o told analysts that the firm was going to lose a meaningful revenue stream due to the u.s. withdrawal. quote, that will not recover obviously. those were services we were providing to the u.s. government or afghan government prior, so $75 million goes away. that is the ceo who just a few months later in his earning colin january assured investors that there was loss of potential deadly conflict on the horizon. >> we are seeing, i would say, opportunities for international sales. we just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the uae, which have attacked some of their other facilities. the tensions in the south china sea's, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. so i fully expect we are going to see some benefit from it. >> we are going to see some benefit from the war. now the ceos aware of the obvious criticisms as he told the harvard business review last month, quote, while we are a defense company, our goal is to pro

soldiers of the territorial defense are already ready and have taken up their positions. and now the commander gives the order, the simulation of a real battle begins. the soldiers of the territorial defense are constantly undergoing training. the swedish-british light anti-tank missile complex enlav, the fighters see it for the first time however, the instructors assure that you can learn how to use it in just a few hours, lemon used to work as a plumber from the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he brought food to the fighters, and now he is mastering modern weapons, we had an event such that we brought the question of ammunition to the guys and we were fired at with grenade launchers, this particular mine was in dmitrovka. after the army, i never thought that i would take up a weapon in my hands. father helps his son load a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher they tell me to shoot accurately, they always imagine that the enemy is hiding from their relatives, that they are going to defend ukraine, they overcame the territorial defense and became on the first day of

long range air defense .h as the s300 play a critical role if they are disabled by us allies. we hope to replace them as soon as possible. you did not say about the new american poov you. there are no new types of air defense we will use the most effective systems. not only do we need to get the weapons there quickly, but we also need to get the right types of weapons, long-range weapons will be the most important, and so we're trying to get them those weapons. as soon as possible, and i think, you know, it was the president who signed the $800 million aid order on thursday, and on saturday the first howitzers were delivered. this is exactly the speed with which we work and we call ours. allies and partners work with us to advance as quickly as possible. what perishing, there confess? yes, hear from mr. austin the chief of the pentagon an assessment of our soviet from the walls, air defense s-300. he says that the best systems are needed for the most efficient ones, but there are already 500 on austin a littl

what many defense laws, all defense lawyers have said, is a fake go trial jury during can't give you a some background on corolla. how did he end up being imprisoned without trials and more than 4 years? this is an extremely poor, long legal process. he initially was accused of been involved in the 2013 civil war r, a protest against president nerd one the most largest white scale, or a national uprising. it was her against the president's power. he always believed that this was a conspiracy. and he accused so cavalier who is this wealthy businessman, i am philanthropists and major support of turkish civil society of been behind it. he routinely accuses coupler of been the george soros of turkey. now, george soros is the billionaire hungarian businessman that thus supports civil society for our eastern europe and is accused by russian president putin of been behind many uprisings in ukraine and other eastern european countries of that core for democracy in earth. one has saying that color is the same kind of characters. in many ways, earth one's looking to can think that conflict cav

first line of defense.was yuriy podlyako, our permanent military expert igor yuryevich uh, at what stage are we now the same question. i think that the assessments given by the british and americans indicate that at least we retain such an important factor as tactical surprise. they cannot yet determine exactly where the direction of the main blow will be. and obviously our military leadership is trying to make it as difficult as possible with the use of appropriate measures. counteracting the technical means of reconnaissance of operational camouflage, after all, and how will we continue to act? it would seem that the scenario is clear, but here we are on this relatively regional theater of military operations. there may be various unexpected things here. i would pay attention first of all. here's to the fact that over the past day, blows were inflicted on a huge one. the number of objects that the armed forces of ukraine hold is almost one and a half thousand, it must be said that each object of destructi

i would just say this about ukrainian air defense, they still have a lot of their air defense capability available. they have been asking for more. we are working with allies and partners to help yet long-range air defense systems into ukraine. the secretary is working on this personally, working with allies to see what they can do. we want to get them long-range air defense systems that we know they know how to use and can put into deployment fairly quickly. the ukrainians, without getting into their battle, they clearly value their air defense for good reason. they are doing a very effective job in using it and marshaling those and doing the best they can. >> two quick questions, president zelenskyy talked about what he said was the death toll in mary opal. he said tens of thousands fitted -- is that -- >> i don't think anybody is really going to know until ukrainian youth who -- ukrainian authorities are able to look and see. it is still being fought over. it is still contested territory. if you look at the imagery and you see how much the russians have pounded them from the air, it s

defensive needs. for example, reducing our naval fleet to stretch fewer personnel across fewer ships shows how backwards it has become. our withdrawal from afghanistan indicates a completely avoidable failure of leadership and has made the world and our homeland less safe rather than more safe. and the third point, our refueling capability is essential. especially given the challenges presented by the indo-pacific. last year in this same setting we had this conversation. i asked you both, general milley, i asked you both where we are essentially on the circumstances with the kc-46. we were briefed last week that the kc-46 is capable of refueling 86% of our aircraft. would anyone in this room buy a car with the idea of it working 86% of the time and not 100% of the time? so my frustration is really with this kc-46. and my question, general milley and general austin, i ask both of you, why are we not moving forward with the next generation tanker, the lmxt, which i understand is serving us quite well in

some 40 defense ministers at the u. s. abbeys in ramstein, germany in hopes of increasing the flow of weaponry to ukraine. germany meanwhile, has already agreed to send anti aircraft tons directly to ukraine. that's a change in policy of for a country that has come on the criticism for not sending heavy weaponry to help you cried you, what should the w that's is for now. got office in berlin. thanks a lot. with who did need batteries lying around is your medicine properly stored? mm hm. emergencies can happen at a moment's notice, especially when children are involved. her prevention and how to act quickly ah, in good shape. next on d, w. the c sound a paradise for toys. a dramatic example of climate change for environmentalists. but not everyone is willing to accept that initiatives and the government are joining forces. they're going to say they're paradise at west close up in 45 minutes on d, w o. it started shooting today and transformed into an orgy of hate and violence. the history of the ku klux klan, the oldest

defense minister björn arel.fits to ukraine, the minister said. ukraine will be transferred about 100 mistral missiles and several launchers . as for the federal republic of germany, yesterday there was a statement by scholz that germany does not have heavy weapons for delivery to ukraine. but today there was an explanation from the ministry of defense. uh frg that in fact the frg will supply tanks to eastern european countries, which in turn will supply tanks to ukraine uh, sergey ivanovich, well, actually there was no situation. uh, there was no situation at all after the end of the cold war, when nato countries, uh, gave weapons to kill e russian military personnel. yes, now they are doing it in completely unlimited quantities already and absolutely do not refuse, either to ukraine or to themselves, literally in nothing. well, what did we want? this is actually the question here is that we are fighting several ukraine many times here they said within the framework of this program that ukraine is such a kind of

will take from our defense industrial base s. that means dealing with the tremendous demand we're facing for munitions and weapons platforms. in giving our staunch support to ukraine while also meeting our own requirements, and those of our allies and partners, but it also means redoubling our common efforts to strengthen ukraine's military for the long haul. i look forward to our discussions in the contact group and elsewhere about how to get that done right. let me thank all the countries that came together today. they've done crucial work and send a powerful signal. we're going to continue to build on the process to help ukraine defend itself. it will continue working transparently and urgently with our allies and partners. we'll continue pushing to support and strengthen the ukraine military for the battles ahead. so we leave tonight strengthened. so does ukraine. thank you and i'll be glad to take your questions. >> our first question is from sylvia. >> thank you. mr. secretary, actually i have a double question for you. mol

germany has announced defense spending. additional nations have indicated an interest to join nato and even switzerland has announced an intent to free russian assets. international community has united in a way not seen in generations. ucomm m and transcomm are play ago critical role in these efforts. american forces will receive, identify and transport the majority of the aid intended to ukraine from across the international community. this has been a herculean task executed with admirable skill on very little notice. i would ask our witnesses to provide the committee with any updates and also to help place the current ukraine crisis of our long-term competition with both of our strategic competitors, russia and china. keeping an eye to the future, an important reality we're seeing in ukraine is that any potential sad >> say are going to attack our lo jestic support system. this idea of logistics will include obvious threats to our four bases as well as the aircraft and ships that we supply those base. it could include cy

new shell defense. they act that way when prepared.echelon of defense, they roll back and so gradually, but should roll back to the slavic kramatorsk. agglomerations where, of course, but it will be very hard to work head-on, because a on the approaches to the slavyansk of the north, a relief very convenient for the defense of the city, they used it 8 years ago. uh, the russian militias, who, uh, did not let the ukrainian army into the city then and only after, and the garrison was withdrawn from there completely encircled and, accordingly, the russian troops will probably act in the same way completely blocking, and the cities that are between us now and donetsk but this is also avdiivka. and druzhkov konstantinovka kramatorska naturally. slavyansk e, after which there will already be talk of in addition to artillery, a lot of things appeared in captivity, which previously did not exist such a gdp, again, it indicates that zelenka poured out and groups of our special forces are working scouts from official operations and in the forest