which include of the ministry of defense and the impression that directly in the art of defense is now the main bet on in two directions, this is foreign military equipment that comes in the form of military aid and special exporters who try to meet the needs of the ministry of defense, this is the account of their connections in one or another states, this means that this direction of foreign technology is currently dominant for ukrainian realities, so it goes in certain directions, this is a certain direction if we discuss about rocket artillery systems of volley fire this is really the priority is foreign supply because well, we must understand, we must realize that today we cannot produce in sufficient quantities, including the rszvr, if we are already talking about floating, for example, alder, then here we really have to to give preference to this tool, including the neptune complex as a tool. i think that our production and procurement are equal and equal. well, you have been to the meetings of the ministry of defense recently. enterprises, is there an understanding that the min

phd, vice president of one of the largest defense and aerospace companies thate we hae in our defense industrial base. professional staff member on the senate foreign relationsns committee and had a policy on the house armed services committee, national security advisor to one of the most distinguished senators, fred thompson, a very career and you brought extensive background to your role.e we are here today to discuss your book which is entitled the sacred oath, memoirs of the secretaryim of defense during an extraordinary time and i would like to say by if i'm correct when you graduated as a second lieutenant from west point, you raised your right hand and said i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same and i take this obligation freely without any mental reservationov or purpose of evasion and i will well and faithfully discharge the duties onon the office of which i amh about to enter, so help me god. you took an oath to the constitution. is this what you arere referri

nato is a defensive military alliance. designed to preserve in part by holding members to a high democratic governance and economic transparency standards. indeed, further to that point, democratic processes in both countries have shown that the finnish and swedish people themselves are strongly supportive of joining nato. so while nato has not yet formally prepared at the session protocols for finland and sweden, we expect it will very soon. there is tremendous urgency and a strong case for inviting these countries. expansion of nato requires unanimous agreement by all nato member states of course. and with time of the essence, the 11th hour concerns by turkey standing in the way of this process only serve putin's interests. in the meantime, and as members prepare to meet next week in madrid, it is imperative that we press ahead with our own approval process which is why we are having this hearing today. this may very well be one of the most important decisions this committee and the senate makes in the decade and beyond

and strategic communications the ministry of defense of ukraine is now in touch with us , mr.ate you, vasyl. good morning, so about what we heard about the new world order seems to have been declared by putin, but who pays special attention to his statements, what nato has to demonstrate now and what it should have demonstrated in the last four months, if you could characterize whether they will build a new system or at least announce it or not, i think that here, in principle, we should wait for both today's results of the meeting in rammstein and the meeting at the madrid summit that will take place at the end of the month. the main thing is that, as the minister of defense says, there was a determination in of our foreign partners, it appeared that there is something in nato so that there is no repetition of that policy of pacification of the aggressor, which actually led to the second world war, at the moment, here is an important moment, i apologize for this, and i am talking about the decisiveness of actions, because if we compare let's say the reaction of the european u

well, the ministry of defense's policy regarding our defense industry is too optimistic. ministry of defense should be interested primarily in the quantity, and the main thing is the quality of military equipment to fulfill the tasks at hand. in front of them , e-e, on the contact line in the south and east, first of all, and here it cannot be a priority whether ukrainian production or foreign production, they must this policy should be applied first of all by the ministry of defense, which implements this or that policy in the field of armaments of military equipment and supplies the armed forces. should be of least interest to the region, in my opinion, it should be of interest to the ministry of strategic industries if they are responsible for the formation and implementation of the state politicians in the sphere of the defense-industrial military-industrial complex so they must conduct that analysis and prove the necessity and the possibility of manufacturing a sufficient quantity of that armament of ukrainian -made military equipment for our military . in my opinion

, he is being treated in an outpatient clinic, i will remind you that yesterday the anti-aircraft defense forces shot down a rocket over zolochiv of the probable type, the caliber of the rocket debris fell on brickyards, damaged 26 private houses, three commercial objects, three administrative buildings and two cars in chernobaivka in the morning in the area of ​​the local there was an explosion in the market, there are dead and injured, the number of victims is being clarified. this was reported by the adviser to the head of the kherson regional military administration, serhii khlan, he noted that this was a terrorist act by russia to scare people, according to the information of the military administration of the kherson region, the day before in the region, people have been reporting explosions and shelling for the whole day critical situation in the entire territory of the boryslav district and in some settlements of the kakhovsky district, the russians continue to mine the bank of the ingulets river bridges and fields in the region and in donetsk region, russian artillery hit pokrovs

formation of volyn, about terrorist defense, about self-defense, and let's see further in the plot to destroy even more occupiers and protect the sky over ukraine by our servicemen of the forces unit ter defense master heavy weapons, the training takes place in rear cities and on special simulators, and our journalists saw exactly how this training takes place in this room, servicemen of the territorial defense forces unit can feel almost like they are on the battlefield in special equipment on simulators mastering a portable anti-aircraft missile complex needle and anti-tank weapons well done 3.5 weeks 3 to shoot down air targets soldier oleksandr learns before a full-scale invasion man engaged in 2d and 3d design, drew computer games in march, joined the ranks of the territorial defense of the villages, although i had no combat experience. i joined the defense voluntarily because ukraine was attacked by russia and i had to defend my country. defense of the sky is also what they are hitting us with from afar, and it is very important for us to close the sky with our own forces, manag

, worldwide communication routine, worldwide grocery chain, worldwide defensive school system, defensemissile agency, you started to take that on because you say some of these things are big businesses yet they are not run like the business and military support organizations and you try to bring reform to the defense agency but probably left before you could get what you wanted to get done but talk about how we need to reform what we are doing in the pentagon and don't get me wrong. i'm making a longer question because i want to say as you said in the beginning of your book you gave credit to the men and women, active duty, reserve, defense, civilians, contractors, research and develop and, they come to work in the pentagon every day to do the very best job they can for the war fighter and the taxpayer likely and congressional staff and former secretary of defense told me, bill perry said bad posture feeds good people every day and in dod we still have a lot of proliferation of bad policies you tried to reform. talk about reform efforts particularly as it relates to massive defense age

industry and state and private in the conditions of war, how and how our defense industry helps thermed forces. and why do we more and more often mention foreign models of weapons and very little about our own ? my name is serhiy zgurets and i am the director of the information consulting company defense express, which jointly with the espresso channel, he is trying to highlight the current trends in the life of our armed forces and the defense industry. my interlocutor today is the general director of the league of defense enterprises of ukraine, yuriy brovchenko the league unites private companies of ukraine, which are key manufacturers of weapons, this armored vehicle , drones and radar units of guided weapons, including the well-known neptune complex that sank in moscow, as well as various defense systems, mr. yuriy. i welcome you to the espresso channel. good day. i am very pleased, and first of all swam to ukraine and glory to our defenders and i think that our conversation will be quite interesting, we will strive for it and i will start with the fact that today there is a lo

we cannot provide e-e defense only with point means of air defense, i did not read the same patriot oreron house, this is the point protection of cities from attacks from certain directions, given that the enemy is attacking our large territory then we need to patrol the airspace using the regular aviation forces, in particular the f-16, and the f15 is much more interesting in that its weapons complex allows us to directly destroy the enemy's air defense systems at a distance of more than 300 km. now, as we see in the mountains, they are starting to tighten the s300 and s400 complexes directly to the south of our country is precisely an attempt to create such an umbrella for the protection of the occupying forces from air attacks. and this means that we will then have to implement our liberation initiatives, it will be necessary to destroy these air defense complexes, and as of today, without long-range means of impression of air basing, we will not be able to do it, and therefore it is extremely important that these issues related to new aircraft really bring to the american side in t

i'm going to brussels to hold the next in- person meeting of the ukraine defense contact group defensers from literally all over the world will be there to discuss the current crisis in ukraine following an unprovoked invasion this is russia 's third international meeting dedicated to military assistance to ukraine in the fight against the russian federation. the first time it was held at the initiative of the pentagon on april 26, two months after the start of a full-scale war the venue was the rammstein air base in germany, from where the undisclosed name of the next summits appeared, then the coalition gathered representatives of the defense departments of 43 countries, the negotiations lasted more than 7 hours, and based on their results, several important decisions were made, including the creation of an advisory group on the defense of ukraine, as well as the transition of the ukrainian army on weapons of nato standards, all in order to ensure full compatibility of the armed forces with the armies of the north atlantic alliance countries. we cannot waste time. today's briefing cl

and in the battle of zayerodonetsk, please. in fact, the defense now in north donetsk is very dynamice-e, populated areas, the positions of the frontiers are passing from hand to hand, a-a, the debt uses an extremely large, however, artillery technique, phosphorous shells, heavy artillery, aviation, nurses, e-e, thermocouple shells, well, that is, an extremely extremely difficult situation for us, the highest priority is to protect the lives of our soldiers, our warriors and our heroes and inflict maximum damage to the enemy. that is, this is our priority. there are indeed certain maneuvers regarding metolkin. there are certain difficulties, but still this does not mean that the situation there, well, let's say it's panicky, on the contrary, everyone is holding on, everyone is very cheerful, on the contrary, they are asking for support , first of all, first of all, we want to appeal to the generals so that the military administration of luhansk does not do its job. this concerns the local the population organized a crossing to provide for local residents who are now there is actually

and stat is trying to focus on smaller defense acids, things like drones, for example, or coastal, defense me solve against income in china. worships as well as things like c mines, for example. these are for the cheaper smaller items. that's how i can buy from a cheap, but they are not unless very factors for defense purposes. if i were to add another point onto that, and i'll be a focus on simply on defense. tell want, if i ministry just announce a new civilian defense handbook, a couple months ago to try to harmonize standardized understanding of what to do during wartime emergency where to the average member of public go, for example, to get resources and how do you sort of improve your capacity the joy to convert into a fighting force at a moment's notice should the moment cost for it. right. and what is a tie? one's assessment of chinese military preparedness, particularly it's naval capability to cross the taiwan straits to attack at the moment, i think it's pretty clear that china does have conventional enable superiority over tie one what china still needs to developed before you

shared cyber defense information is home to a world-class defense industry and is steadily increasingnse spending with a stated goal of reaching 2% of gdp as soon as possible. finland is contributing to nato missions in afghanistan, bosnia and herzegovina, iraq and kosovo, and will spend 2.1 6% of its gdp on defense in 2022. in 2026, offended will receive the first of its 65 f 35 ayes from its 12 billion dollar deal. the largest national procurement in finland's history. one that will give finland a significant military capability increase in -- and other nato allies. and have a positive economic impact on both the u.s. and finish economies. both countries will enhance nato's situation of awareness and capabilities in the high north. in short, i concur with wet you both and many other senators have said already, nato enlargement that includes finland and sweden would further bolster the alliance. they would be net providers of security and nato and would enhance the national security interests of the united states. turkey has raised concerns about some of finland and sweden's policies

of the contact group on support of ukraine, the so-called rammstein iii, will be attended by the defense ministers of more than 50 countries, including all nato members, stoltenberg promised that in the evening they will announce the allocation of kyiv to a new military aid, including heavy weapons and long-range artillery, the overall aid package covers various aspects to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities, allies and nato partners have already begun to supply modern weapons, in particular modern anti -aircraft systems, anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as all types of modernized artillery equipment , armored and other equipment, we see an unprecedented level of support for ukraine from nato to other partners, the european union must approve the seventh package of sanctions against russia, and in the future to provide ukraine with military and financial aid, with this president volodymyr zelensky addressed the czech people and authorities and emphasized that russian tanks in prague in 1968, this is a comprehensive answer to those who want to satisfy the aggressor with compro

she has also served as the under secretary of defense for politics, advising the secretary of defense on a range of functional and regional issues. i would be remiss not to mention that she also served as the founding director of the resilience center, striving for sustainable solutions to climate, migration, and security problems. sec., thank you for taking on the myriad security challenges now facing the nation. moderating the conversation today is vivian, who serves as a national security reporter at "the wall street journal," having covered foreign-policy and national security for two decades and has reported from 70 nations. before i hand it over to secretary wormuth for keynote remarks, i would like to remind everyone that this is a public event and on the record. we encourage our audience on zoom to direct questions to the secretary using the q&a tab that you can find at the bottom of your screen. be sure to identify yourself, please, and your affiliation as you ask your question. we will be collecting them throughout the event and then vivian will pose some questions to our gu

brigade, our unit of the 112th territorial defense brigade will continue to be on the lines of the defense and protection of kyiv , the peace of the people of kyiv. unfortunately, the war is not over and it is too early for the people of kyiv to relax, because there are some regrets, well, the most important thing is the risks of terrorist attacks in kyiv, you know , yesterday in one of the broadcasts, the presenter told me that uh, uh, they haven't shelled kyiv with ballistic missiles for a long time, you already know that people who live in kyiv understand that air raids happen every day, even this night there was an uh, air raid, so there are risks of shelling, primarily ballistic cruise missiles and let's say a few a few days ago, we saw , to our great regret, the consequences of these shellings , that is why we appeal to the people of kyiv to observe the rules of safety and remember that the russian occupiers broke the teeth of the defenders of kyiv after all, they resort to such a strategy of the terrorist e-e to bombard kyiv with missiles, and that is why such a situation, unfortuna

such rooms if in every district center behind every terrorist defense there was a weapon fixed above it and everyone knew where to get it uh this room had uh was supposed to be under uh police guard or during police visits but everyone had to come there in case of an alarm to get a weapon and he knew what he had to do, but starting in the 19th year, when mr. gusev yuriy gusev became the head of the regional state administration, all these developments were put mildly, forgotten, and a new pensioner was appointed. by the way, thank god in the last at the time he was brought in, who received his friends, who purely formally calculated wages for re-defense, which was still financed from the regional budget, if you look at the implementation of the regional budget for special defense, then from the 19th year it was still financed and worked for exactly six months, and in the last six months it's just that the money was not used and transferred to other programs, and you will be surprised, but i, as a deputy of the regional council, back in december of this month, well, simply because wha

we talked about air defense systems and anti-missile defense systems for years, we have been asking ourgive us power supply, please give us an anti-aircraft missile defense system and then the russians will not dare to start this operation because, remember, on february 24 they started with missile strikes by aviation, they declared that they had destroyed the ukrainian air defense system, i apologize i'm still there. i want one more question about this. where should i ask? it is known that the minister of defense of the rs serhii shoigu is inspecting the russian troops who are engaged in the war in ukraine. she reported this herself the russian ministry of defense and as the russians later reported , he was actually in the occupied donbas, and with this inspection, why do you think he came to ukraine? i don’t think he was somewhere in the depths of the occupied territories. easy, and i don't think that the russians would be able to risk several of their generals at once with their entire stake . because the ukrainian army can strike at such and such at the same time while they were fil

so kiev is now asking the west for more new air defense systems.ymyr zelenskyy also mentioned this in his video speech at the great seven. well, as for the proto-y system, american anti-missiles are now in poland and romania, in moscow they called it a direct threat. especially considering how easily anti-aircraft missiles can be replaced by offensive ones with a large radius of destruction, they promised an asymmetric response. the intensity of the shelling in donetsk has decreased, but the situation has not yet stabilized, the mayor of the city aleksey kuemsin said, shelling continues in other settlements of the dpr today, in particular , makiivka was under fire, where two were killed the situation in donbass is being monitored by our correspondent boris maksudov. he is now on direct communication. boris e hello. eh, what is the situation like for a minute? yes, yuri greetings well, here it is, the very place in makiivka where a hail projectile landed 2 hours ago. here is a characteristic funnel. you can see how in 50 meters from us there was pra

of defense, it is necessary to get modern western systems, the so-called anti-missile defense systemsciple, is equipped with only soviet systems that are designed mainly for e-missiles that fly at high altitudes or so-called ballistic missiles, that is, soviet systems can predict them movement and shoot down, and in principle , such systems, uh, the soviet defenses are not effective, but uh, cruise missiles that fly at low altitude, for this, we need, first of all, to get effective systems from the west in a sufficient quantity of feathers in order to close all the large cities of ukraine. i would like to remind you that germany speaks of the need and readiness, most importantly, to provide us with anti-aircraft defense systems, just like these missiles when it is what will happen at the moment is not reported, but they promise that it will be possible to protect a large city, the state of kyiv or odessa, another topic that i would like to discuss with you is that and what can we cover this map and the government of slovakia has decided on a scheme according to which bratislava is rea

this is ivan kyrychevsky, defense express expert, mr.vich. help, i would start, you know , maybe you also read an interview for rbc with taras chmut, who heads one of the most powerful volunteer funds, the tournament is alive, and there is an opinion of taras himself, he is also a military man uh, in reserve. yes, and he says that what we see now. and we see that now we have approximately equal losses in artillery systems, and this. and he says a very simple phrase: if we are completely dependent on the supply of the west, if we have relatively speaking they give it, as he says there. zero three, relatively speaking , the coefficient, and they have 0.5, the coefficient is suitable, and we spend 0.5 at the same time. this means that our reserves are running out, not to mention that we are running out of reserves there, 150 cargo shells shells and so on at that moment i'm just like preface for what i want to say next, the germans will give us saul the cheetah, but the germans will give us armor, a howitzer, 2,000 in the end, i don't rememb

varshikov, let's assume defense minister varshikov, it's hard not to agree with this.o the news, and after that we'll come back and talk about the important thing. we'll talk about the situation in donbas. what is happening with granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership in the european union and let's talk about who will become our country now, which countries are blocking this decision , this is important and what we can do in the next days, what they remain with us until the decision of the european commission, and that's less than a week, we'll be back in a moment right now, our colleague anzhelika sizonenko is ready to present a fresh news release from the espresso editorial office anzhelika , thank you very much, colleagues. as for the news, the evacuation from donetsk will continue. mariupol was given up for looting and the enemy continues provocations in the border areas with ukraine, this is chernihiv region and sumy region, more in detail in a moment

spending, most of them agreed to increase defense spending to more than two percent of gdp, 2% of gdp on defense, see for example germany germany said that it will spend 2% of gdp and a special fund is being created for the military more than by 100 billion dollars slovakia, the czech republic and the netherlands all said that they would provide two percent poland lithuania but estonia latvia more than five percent some 3% provide for defense, this increases our defense capabilities in uh both in the air and on land uh and on and at sea cyber ​​e-e sphere in space since the fifth article is sacred an attack on one is an attack on all we will a-a defend every inch of nato territory on our side the united states is doing what we said in the case of e- e putin's invasion we er placed more a there are more ships here in spain than in air defense in germany, the most airplanes in great britain and we are hosting the headquarters of the us fifth corps in poland in addition to which there will be brigades in romania and also the u.s. presence is increasing on a rotational basis of the u.s. m

of silence in public places andriy kovalev, press officer of the 112th territorial brigade of the defense of the armed forces of ukraine joins us good night good night friends glory to ukraine glory to the heroes andriy please tell me how this restriction will be implemented in practice, how violators will be caught, how they will be punished and what role will the soldiers of the teroborona have in this thank you, you know how i am correct the timely decision of the head of the military-civilian administration, mr. zhirnov , it is clear that the most important thing to say is that i always say this at the beginning of all inclusions before the marathon that the war continues and even those territories who are freed from the russian occupation, let's say how in kyiv an attempt to seize kyiv by the russian occupiers was repelled, well, the inhabitants of these territories , first of all, of kyiv, you need to relax, understand that the war is ongoing, you need to adapt your life to the military restrictions imposed by this difficult time for our state in particular, the use of pyrotechnics

just and now it's a new civilian defense handbook. a couple months ago to try to harmonize standardized understanding of what to do during war time, emergency where to the average member of public go, for example, to get resources. and how do you sort of improve your capacity, the joy to come over into a fighting force at a moment's notice should the moment cause for it. right. and what is one's assessment of chinese military preparedness, particularly it's naval capability to cross the taiwan straits to attack at the moment, i think it's pretty clear that china does have conventional enable superiority over tie one what china still needs to developed before you can be confident of success in the cross to accomplish scenario is that china needs a stronger, and phoebe as lending transport capacity. so it's easier for china to fly the airplanes over to tie one atlas launch in big warship towards taiwan. to actually make a occupation happen, you would need to have a whole lot of transport that can move to soldiers on to how want occupied

, because i remind you that we do not have anti-missile defense, we only have anti-aircraft defense,ll, anti-missile defense from poland, especially for the western regions, which are also a hub for the transshipment of military equipment and, in general, such a humanitarian hub , can it happen today, please . today, in fact, it is not surprising that among the nato countries close to the borders of ukraine, poland has the most powerful anti-missile and anti - aircraft defense. let's see the context, then we must remember the statement made by the eighth clark, who was necessarily the commander of nato in europe, who pointed out that in fact nato should be more actively involved directly in the defense of ukraine and actually in hostilities, then we discussed it with you as the first such call that nato countries should be, say, more active , and this statement directly by polish representatives is a certain, let's say, continuation of this logic. this logic suits me absolutely, as well as many ukrainian citizens, because in the conditions when there is a rather complicated issue of

the most modern air defense system that germany has. this will enable ukraine to protect an entire city from russian ass strikes. that, too, is a decision by the federal government. ukraine's army chief has said that these rocket systems provided by the u. s. will be crucial encountering russian attacks in the long battle over ukraine's eastern territory where they w correspondent mathias bollinger is in cave. i asked him if he's promised his, from the rest in germany, when ukraine's military would finally get what it needs. yeah, i mean, oh, there have been announcements before for these rocket launchers. there has been a bit of confusion when biden announced that they would not deliver rocket launches that have a ray that would be able to hit russian cities. but there was about the range of the rockets they deliver. that was not about the principal and the rocket launchers is something that ukraine has asked for for some time because they hoped they would be able to destroy russian positions. basically more effectively, especially in

we understand how important it is to have such a contact group on defense issues.e communicate with the minister of defense of ukraine and we follow the dynamics on the field therefore, we clearly understand what the current requirements and current requests are based on this dynamic, that is, what are the needs of the ukrainian armed forces. this is how we direct our efforts to the long-range military potential of the armed forces of ukraine, as well as counter- air defense to strengthen the air defense system, as well as the provision of other reactive systems that are different from the heimer, that is why we cooperate with our allies and partners to maintain the situation, to meet the needs of ukraine, we are focused on what the ukrainian leadership is asking us to do, they are better see and understand the needs, therefore we provide what is asked of us, we will continue to increase our efforts in order to strengthen the defense capability of ukraine, i am sure that we will succeed general zaluzhnym we really received a list of what the ukrainians need the mos

every time our foreign ministers and the defense minister are satisfied, after this takeoff i will call it that . there are many questions. yes, there are a lot of questions. besides, there were 50 countries yesterday, and we were promised 18 howitzers , that is, not even one howitzer from each country. thank you, good evening. thank you for the opportunity to talk about this. if there really is, you know. the political component is the military component, when we talk about the political component, it is really this one, in fact, support at such a very high , respectable level of effort to ukraine was in the fight against russia with our enemy deserves, well, all sorts of things, well, very good feelings. let's put it this way, it causes that we see that the ministers of such respectable countries, they all speak out in support of ukraine, they assure that they will continue to support our state and our defense and provide the samples of weapons that we need, but when we move into the military sphere, we really see that in addition to ammunition, in addition to the artillery systems th

of the 112th territorial defense brigade remains on at the lines of defense and security of kyiv because i repeat once again that the danger for kyiv has not disappeared and those who are not involved in this before this daily duty at the lines of defense undergo daily training because once again rotations are taking place with those units of ours of brave, motivated kyivans who are currently in the south and east and are performing their combat tasks there, i.e. our servicemen who until february 24 had completely peaceful and civilian professions are now becoming full-fledged military and constantly are in training, in fact, when we talk about the fact that the threat has not disappeared even for kyiv, it is obvious that we are probably talking about the fact that the belarusian border, well, it has not gone anywhere. it is close enough to kyiv, and here we are too there is also a certain evolution, in a few days we were told that an attack from belarus was absolutely impossible, but now we have an address from president zelensky, who addresses the belarusians with the fact that they ar

well, i think that he will not find them, accordingly, as soon as the defense operation in donbas isd, it is time to start offensive actions, but how quickly will it happen and in what directions will it happen well, i can’t say, my assumption is that it is advisable to start active actions in the south. why, in the south, in the kharkiv direction, we have a common border with the russian federation. strikes should not be done and leave this piece with a loaf of bread at the end of the banquet in the south to cut the enemy grouping it is quite possible the enemy is weak battalions tactical groups of the southern direction led by their new commander of the military space forces get very large fronts there for one group 19 kilometers of the front it is physically it is impossible, accordingly, this should be used, and in this way the supply from crimea to the group in the east of ukraine, which the enemy created there, will be interrupted. i think it would be logical to act yes, but he is really a question the best question is that everyone is talking about the fact that there will be

unfortunately , it is not connected with the creation of a defense proper of the defense potential ofskyi can be connected with the creation of the newest powerful and equipped ukraine for this he must personally control and personally see every day what has been done in the missile program, how it moves, for this it could be created and an additional, conventionally speaking, military-technical commission where he would be the chairman, and let's say his deputies would be the commander-in-chief of the e-e armed forces e and, let's say, a person who would be designated as the main one in the field of defense industry of the complex and technologies eh at first i thought that such a person should be in the ministry of technology, but for some reason the government has so completely zeroed out the potential of eh, that today i doubt it. well, i still don't know, but it's definitely not ukroboronprom, because ukroboronprom is only part of the defense industry , and no, not the largest. this is about a third of the entire defense complex, and maybe a quarter only . i hope that in fact you

but but, but ukrainian giving us the time to beef up our defenses. and i just hope that countries now at last become serious about spending 2 percent of gdp on the defense . poland has been doing it for the last 15 years. we are now raising it to 3 percent. how worried are you about disagreements with in the alliance? i'm thinking of turkey blocking accession by finland and sweden. stockton bug referred to it himself in the last few days or something he take seriously. given the fact that old decisions in nato require consensus couldn't turkey seriously, blunt nato's edge not nature's edge, but can blunt enlargement clearly because you need, you know, unlimited. you say the turkey is involved in a very bloody and difficult syrian civil war. and remember the cut this faction is also a factor in internal turkish politics, including in, in the current campaign, in turkey. so issues to do with a courtesy parties, all the formations are very serious turkey and finland and sweden. i have to engage in a serious dialogue with talk your budget, but i can assu

how is that not considered defensive? if ukraine does use these weapons in what they see as a defensive way by striking inside russia, are there any repercussions for them violating this agreement they have made? dr. kahl: it is true the russians are engaged in a number of standoff attacks from russian territory. so think long-range missile systems or air launched cruise missiles, those types of things. the core of the battle now is on ukrainian territory in the east. the systems we are providing, the himars and guided munitions that go along with them, will allow ukraine to range any target they need for that fight inside ukrainian territory. these systems will not be particularly useful to hit a russian bomber launching an air launched cruise missile hundreds and hundreds of kilometers away anyway. so we think we are giving them the capability they need for this stage of the fight. >> any repercussions if they violate that? dr. kahl: they have given us their assurances they will not use the systems for striking russian

to the 19th year, constant training of the kherson territorial defense was practiced.ll heads of non-district state administrations were involved, and on the basis of each district state administration was formed law of territorial defense, everyone knew who was and what should be done in the event of an alarm, we did not then discuss the issue until the 19th year, we discussed the issue of harvest rooms that should be under er-er precisely under protection under state protection of the buildings of district state administrations and in case of alarm, everyone had to come to get weapons, deconserve them, get weapons and take one or another of their positions, everything was worked out, there was a program of the regional budget for financing territorial defense, but this happened from the 19th in 2018, priorities changed a little, and from the 19th year, even the program for territorial defense that was laid down was simply not implemented. it is true that you say that funds were laid down in the program for territorial defense, but even i and the deputy of the regiona

we have such a situation that the creation of our own domestic anti-missile air defense means had tointroduced not now and during the war, this is a question that requires tens of years and constant funding in the amount of billions of dollars, so the day before we literally had two years before the full-scale secondary army of the russian federation, several projects were presented, including from the akb , better yes, the southern kb of anti-aircraft missile complexes and the main ones of the unnamed recoil, but for understanding, it is your time that is required from the appearance the idea itself, from some concepts to the serial production of atmpache, the supply of a significant number and their combat exhaustion are years. that is, this decade can be and this has been proven in practice by all countries who have introduced their missile system developments, that is, even if we return to the past and money for them would be excluded, unfortunately, we would not have them yet. that is, we now have to make the main bet and hope that we receive foreign fighters capable of performi

and you get to see the, the defense minister and the defense military, sorta cringing at that. at that announcement because they knew that they don't have the, the, the, the, the equipment in their, in their stocks. they don't even have it in their inventory. a lot of these weapons are going into the hands of the as of italian and the other, neo nazi groups that are now part of the ukranian military. and we have no way of knowing how they're being used or that could be sold for that matter. and, and maybe even sold to a terrorist groups. we have no, we have no way to judge what the an use of those weapons are. and these are rather sophisticated weapons, even small arms. and given the volume of weapons that have been sent, there is no accountability. and this is a, a, another prescription for disaster mixed signals coming from the west over russian oils president biden has announced that should still be bought by western countries only cheaper. this time ortiz, racial blevins, are ronald's, not for us. the white house could be pursuing yet another change in policy as president b

during the day help the air defense system and c. donbass drones continue to fly there seven ukrainian ballistic missiles were intercepted point near in the areas of stakhanov alchevsk lozovsky, luhansk people's republic and 10 missiles system hall of fire in the areas of dry kamenka ternovaya of kharkiv region, donetsk hay troitskoe and western outskirts of avdiivka until 13 republic shoots, including number with of the supplied foreign weapons, the national guard of the republic of kazakhstan discovered, simultaneously with foreign supplies in the kharkiv region, grenade launchers, rockets, boxes of ammunition and anti-tank mines to a portable anti-tank missile system. a portable ufo guided missile, all this has already been seized and will be studied by specialists as evidence and a class. republics in russia rodion miroshnik according to him, the command of the armed forces of ukraine has already realized that they cannot keep the city for the situation in the lpr. our correspondent igor plekhanov bombs. there was an explosion ac

defense-industrial complex, what was the support, including private sex, we are on today we understandivate sector really needs a more detailed responsibility of attention, we must also understand that the defense industry until 2019-2022 was a little bit in such an insignificant introduction, this is primarily due to the formation of the ministry of strategic industries, which was quite problematic and it moved rather complicatedly, and at the same time we introduced the law, put into effect the law on defense purchases, which, in my opinion, are sufficiently opposed and analyzing the norms of the law on defense procurement eh, he eh, in my opinion, is much more bureaucratic than the law about the state security order, that is why this leads to the defense-industrial complex, the inability to make an operational decision by the ministry of strategic industries in 2020-21, they are proven to slow down the development of our of the defense-industrial complex, including the purchase of domestically produced military equipment, we can say that we lost the 19th, 20th, and 21st years to org

i like many other countries covered defense budget until recently . now it's had to spend big on re aman. how prepared is sweet and actually for worst case scenario. your description is wrong because we thought did we, did the fans proceed to tell us the 15 and between 240-2025 being for you can get with 8478047, and add it to the if we have decided to put 2 more, 2 more swedish 1000000000 crowns included defense for the it was decided to go up $2.00 to $0.04 of the g p and connected to the on for success, we can do with that 2020. now what changes are we likely to see on the ground if sweden joins the allies? would you, for example, allow nato troops or even nuclear weapons on to your territory? i don't think that the on the christian that the on the again that we should have left and so i think we have the same position as norway, the whole idea to be a member of an a 3 so so that we will have the presentations in different sorts of exercises and a tv for free to sewing. and i think that what we can do together is that in, from an order perspective,