real cuts to defense. worst of all, this bill contains an automatic 1% sequester based off last year's budget. that means that domestic spending will go up and defense spending will go down if the sequester kicks in. let me repeat that. if the sequester takes effect, democrats will get more welfare spending while defense gets cut. who thinks the democratic leader will be dissatisfied with this result? more to the point, who thinks he won't use the threat of sequester to extort even higher levels of welfare spending. these three provisions, a cut this year in real dollars, a worst cut in real dollars for 2025 and the at mat -- automatic sequester based on last year's spending bills conspire devastating cuts to the defense budget at a time when we can least afford it. the bipartisan national defense strategy commission report recommends a real increased defense spending of between 3% and 5% annually over inflation. this bill would cut real spending by more than 5% in two years. effectively slashing tens of b

and defendants -- defense is not the only solution, active defense. there are other solutions. >> let's talk about the other question of aid to ukraine. the u.s. has sent patriots, hawks and all kinds of things. i want to quote our mutual friend, your predecessor. he wrote an article in february for this center about a reported american request for israel's assistance in helping supply ukraine with air defenses. he said quote israel has a wider interest in preserving amicable relations with russia, including the ability for russia to disrupt military efforts to pretend -- prevent iran's takeover of syria. is he correct? is the posture on the air defense apply to ukraine best understood as a foreign relations issue? mr. patel: when i was a young officer, he now is a private person. i'm working as a civilian in the ministry of defense. this is more policy and above my pay grade to answer. >> i knew that was the case but i also appreciate your pointing out this is a policy issue first and foremost. a foreign policy matter. let's move to israel's mitchell

first line of defense of the second line.have been built, but it is so coordinated that the units work there because they had the opportunity to spend time on the first line. they worked. they know it like at home . the third well, it is already more nominal because the main task is to interrupt the first line here to the fact that all the positions are aimed at them and it is quite such a deep, difficult routine of work, but the penises in ukraine, it is such a bit by bit and it is not as easy as it seems on the map, but because and so that you understand, he himself tries to counterattack in those areas where they give up their positions, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully , sometimes later on, ours knock them out again. there is a heavy war there, because the terrain is the southern prosecutor's office, there is very little manifesto , most of the terrain is sparsely planted , and the advantage just protects those who defend themselves because they have not dug very much, let's say quite a lot of underground

real cuts to defense. worst of all, this bill contains an automatic 1% sequester based off last year's budget. that means that domestic spending will go up and defense spending will go down if the sequester kicks in. let me repeat that. if the sequester takes effect, democrats will get more welfare spending while defense gets cut. who thinks the democratic leader will be dissatisfied with this result? more to the point, who thinks he won't use the threat of sequester to extort even higher levels of welfare spending. these three provisions, a cut this year in real dollars, a worst cut in real dollars for 2025 and the at mat -- automatic sequester based on last year's spending bills conspire devastating cuts to the defense budget at a time when we can least afford it. the bipartisan national defense strategy commission report recommends a real increased defense spending of between 3% and 5% annually over inflation. this bill would cut real spending by more than 5% in two years. effectively slashing tens of b

if we listen to the russian ministry of defense after they have already destroyed 1,500 hypers therend so on, let them continue to comment that they stopped everything yesterday, it started today, they already stopped everything, this will mean that they are increasing the number of panic moods in russia, because in russia they also understand that this is not the case , the huge volume of the front line, the huge number of people involved means and people, and you sang that day, everything has already been stopped and the war has already been won , well, just like the southern war in kyiv, so it is very good that today the ministry of defense is commenting that it will cause additional psychological pressure on the russian internal a space for you and me. it's more like a comedy club , nothing more. i thank you for taking the time to join. mykhailo podolyak, adviser to the head of the president's office, was a guest. freedom of the morning, thank you, this is the freedom of the morning. my name is katya nekrecha, and we will definitely talk about important topics. specifically , the

different suppliers came to the open tenders of the ministry of defense, in particular, with much lower prices than the current ones, according to volunteers and members of the anti-corruption council at the ministry of defense . by giving up eggs for uah 17, the state has to save significantly. on june 6, tenders were held at which, well for what? no, according to such calculations , if direct contracts are entered into with the winners , then at least uah 4 billion, from uah 4 to 6 billion . there will be savings on purchases with new supplier companies that won on tenders had already begun to sign contracts when suddenly on june 9 the cabinet received a strange letter from the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov offering to keep the old suppliers and , accordingly, the old inflated prices. asks to extend to 2023 the possibility of concluding direct contracts, and this was perceived by many as an attempt to preserve direct contracts oleksiy reznikov did not explain the reasons for returning to of the old procurement procedure but soon the ministry of defense headed by him withdrew th

forces because the forces and means for the defense of this direction are for active defense, because the defense force does not simply repel the enemy's shaft, but periodically conducts shock- assault actions and somewhat improve their position is enough for the situation to be stabilized and stable on kupyansk e.e. the shade of salad, that is why the enemy does not manage to defeat the command of the defense forces. thank you, yuriy fedorenko, commander of the uav attack company achilles 9 of the 2nd council and the advisor of the verkhovna rada committee on national security was with us, we are going further and we are now including askaz asherbekov, a deputy of the zaporizhzhia regional council, to the conversation, we will talk about zaporizhzhia zaporizhzhia oblast glory to ukraine, we take vat glory what, actually, we also ask to be informed first of all about the operational situation, we know that despite the constant stress, the constant tension is connected with the probable terrorist attacks and with the mining of the zaporizhia npp, e-e, the constant shelling of the zapor

we just wrapped up our 13th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group. and it once again demonstrated the unity and the results that have characterized as group ever since our very 1st meeting, we continue to be inspired by the ukranian people. as i told the contact group today of the missile strikes that hit a residential building in pre very reminded us, all of the fence was suffering, but the, the people of ukraine having door but they remain and on it. and so do their leaders. we're fortunate to be joined yet again by my good friend, ukrainian administrative defense, all actually original cost. as always, this contact group benefits hugely from here and firsthand from him and his team about the state of the battlefield. and you frames most urgent needs. as i've told alexi, we have great confidence in the training and the capabilities of the ukrainian armed forces. thanks and large part of the tireless and combined work of the contact group groups. members. now we all know that the premiums have been engaged and a tough fight to defend their sovereign

forces regrouped and went into the report of active defense, what is meant by active defense when theythe onslaught and advanced a little forward improved its position to specific shock-assault actions and of course, if we talk about the donetsk region as a whole , the defense forces managed to significantly advance on some front lines, knock out the enemy , occupy dominant cells and occupy bridgeheads for the potential execution of further shock-assault actions, this is a grain of hard work of the forces security in general and the defense forces in general, so i have to say here that everything is possible and our territories will definitely be deoccupied , the motivation of the fighters is at a high level, plus we sincerely thank everyone to ukrainians who remember that we have a full-scale war going on and help the defense forces with everything they can because the support of the ukrainian nation is extremely important both psychologically and materially because due to the support of the ukrainian nation it is possible to quickly repair technical equipment and replenish the means

why is your company throwing in lawsuits regarding the ministry of defense's trades ?s not we throw here we do not block and there is no piston to this at all so, uh, we fed poltava , sumy region and zhytomyr, we entered it once, those people who won won. buzova, god forbid, you have mixed something up with me. i will find out now that there is no such thing. god, i will not allow such a thing to happen in my life, that is, he himself does not submit to judgment. clay hints that her company undertook to undermine the state's defense capability behind her back. more and more lawsuits came to the kyiv district administrative court on behalf of the grand consultant , a demand to cancel open tenders . the ministry of defense, seeing the weakness of the claims , considered them according to a simplified procedure and one by one rejected the scandalous mobs . they don't stop and continue to appeal these decisions. today we won the broadcast and we can assume that we will put an end to another instance eh now at the moment there is no longer any way to the procurement procedu

let's go into the defense ministers meeting. i wouldn't expect a lot of substances substance and these remarks that we're going to hear in the next few minutes, because they've just come out of this very intense meeting on drumming up a military support on specifics on military support looking at the list of what equipment you have now they're going to go into sort of the more political side of the defense minister summit, where all the allies are around the table, and they're going to talk about other things as well. defending nato territory, not just what they can do for ukraine, but what they need to do to protect themselves. that's a big question, of course, coming into into this meeting and bill me is next month. what we're going to see here at the meeting is a finalization of what they call regional plans. what everyone is going to bring to, to provide in case of an attack on a nato ally, what can they bring? how do they work together that inter operability is really key here at nato. plenty to digest. terry shouts in brus

some of it is the largess of the defense budget. when you talk about 900 million dollars, it's a lot oversee. it's a lot of different pieces to watch. but there are a lot of focuses on the f-35, and is a controversial program. numerous costs but also a lot of promise. we don't see a lot of ways to cut costs and improve this, but no moves to cut back on the money. this is a recurring problem is something lawmakers like to talk a lot about, and really talk about how they can dive into the pentagon and improve leadership and ways of doing that. we'll see. we covered every year. it is a recurring headline. >> philip in michigan. good morning. you're on. >> good morning. why don't we make the nations that are bordering ukraine to be invaded with refugees in the event of a failure, and this war, when we make those people start matching the funds that we are putting into this war. they are not coming after us. thank you so much. >> look. there has been quite a bit of contribution from european nations as well. i don't think it is a serious

of ukraine, hanna malyar, says about the situation at the front and explains that defensive and offensive operations are currently ongoing in different directions, the reuters agency at the same time writes that ukraine engaged only 3 out of 12 brigades in the counteroffensive and decisive battles are still ahead, so what is the situation at the front, how many territories have ukrainian defenders liberated so far, it took place 13 -th meeting in the rammstein format - the security of the ukrainian sky is one of the main topics , ukraine's partners agreed to strengthen air defense, they promise new launchers and missiles for them, the main conclusions of the meeting and whether they talked about the f16, let's tell how colleague zoryana stepanenko, wait in russia, they began to judge the fighters of the azov battalion among 22 people, eight women are accused of terrorist activities against russia. who are these people, will they be able to return them through the exchange of prisoners, what awaits them after the so-called verdicts, and whether this trial is considered a war crime youtube

troops in the direction of bakhmut. they promptly intercepted the initiative, says deputy minister of defense hanna maleru tim, in spite of everything, according to her , russian forces are trying to hold on to the city by pulling up reserves. with the defense villages and then demand huge sums from relatives for liberation. what is the situation in the occupied regions and how are the armed forces of ukraine liberating the south from the occupiers look, large-scale exercises have begun in ukraine in the event of an accident at the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, we are talking about the zaporizhia, dnipropetrovsk, mykolaiv, and kherson regions, which are included in these exercises . well, we will ask the representatives of the authorities for all the details . if you watch us on youtube, radio svoboda . then be sure to subscribe to our channel and also share this video with your friends, then high-quality and verified information will be available to an even greater number of people, the armed forces of ukraine are advancing under fire, this was reported by the commander of the ground force

[000:00:00;00] electrons than the ministry of defense has, then it is necessary to have more then the question is to mark the question to strong numbers than to the ministry of defense, the meeting, sgorets, military expert, director of the company defect express, was with us later in our stage, the radio freedom project, freedom of the morning, well, now we are approaching the moment of silence for all those ukrainians, or russian aggression against ukraine took their lives. unleashed by russia hello everyone my name is katya nekrecha, this is the freedom of the morning, and in this stream we talk about such things ukrainian forces liberated several settlements this weekend, the names of some were confirmed by the general staff about others, it is known from the words of military experts, they record an increase in the number of local offensives along the front line how the ukrainian counter-offensive continues. but what is silently hinted at by the head of intelligence , budanov ? as a result of the destruction of the kakhov dam by russian forces, the un has not yet received permiss

small equations of radars of defense systems to destroy the air defense system for its main purpose, the next wave of iranian missile attacks in defense of iran's territory , it should be done with strength and precision. mr. bakhtiari, fattah's ultrasound, what he emphasized in it is hypersonic, what is trust or hypersonic at all, and what are the achievements that give us the facilities that may not have existed or were less in the past. a general classification based on the component let's direct the projectile at several times the speed of sound to the goal of the quran, that the hypersonic missile was not the way to go, that we should take the hypersonic missile in the hands of the experts of the defense industry . since i was tested on the shahab 3, i have been going to the hypersonic speeds of hossein. we reached after that sajil and fatih dezful's family, like khyber shakan zulfiqar bazi, they tested the hypersonic speeds, and in the early 90s, after the emad missile with a guided warhead was unveiled, we were able to control and guide the land the moment we hit it. open in t

and let's say so since we spent most of the time in blind defense, after that we switched to active defenset it was still defense and our lines were static, this made it easier for the russian artillery, which was bothering us quite a lot, and we know that there are a lot of people in the defense of bakhmut or other such or other positions were killed today, but i want to ask you specifically about the next scenario, how do you see it, apart from open sources, of course i have some points i know from my comrades in different areas of the front, and therefore the water is less comment or specify why the russians monitor our publics, they monitor our media and can also react to this or that information, and the most important thing in our case today is not to harm the offensive actions of the ukrainian troops in the information field. then i know that very active work is going on in the donetsk direction in the direction of the donetsk airport, we can see our successes near the ugledar near avdiyivka maryinka, i would connect it with in that direction, again, we do not forget the concept of a

and them is very significant for the defense of allied territories. what however, it didn't seem to be willing to talk about that, tara key key. and this plan as these days walking sweden's member issue to need to this is also a huge topic. we leave it that for the moment i some of we're having issues with the uh, the lines the audio along there from brussels that's try to fix this. i would come back to you in a few moments. and 1st we can go to ukraine, which says it has downs 12 for us, and missiles including $66.00 hypersonic controls over the capital keys. and this latest strike came as several african leaders arrived at the city on peace mission . the delegation includes the south african presidents around the post them as well as leaders from sent a gold zambia. the tomorrow's and agents expected stoled talks with ukrainian president for the visit landscape before traveling onto saint petersburg to meet with that it may put on such that not fost dw corresponded, they calmly and key fob, so kindly and officials are saying about these latest strik

we just wrapped up our 13th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group. and it once again demonstrated the unity and the resolve that have characterized this group ever since our very first meeting. we continue to be inspired by the ukrainian people. as i told the contact group today, the missile strike that hit a residential building reminded us all of the senseless suffering that the people of ukraine have endured. but they remain undaunted. and so do their leaders. we are fortunate to be joined yet again by the ukrainian minister of defense. as always, this contact group benefits hugely from hearing firsthand from him and his team of about the state of the battlefield and ukraine's most urgent needs. as i've told alexi, we have great confidence in the training and the capabilities of the ukrainian armed forces, thanks in large part to the tireless and combined work of the contact group's members. now, we all know that the ukrainians have been engaged in a tough fight to defend their sovereign territory and take back the occupied territory and we have a

defense investment page. and it's not for me to preempt except for the language or what the allies will agree. but i'm confident that when we meet in views, i also do one. i last will agree a more ambitious, a pledge in 2014, we have this on the fence semester and catch what we refer to to present us a, something we should strive towards on the over a decade. now there is a imminent need to, to increase the immediate, to the need to, to, to increase defense spending. other single type of one that gets perspective on i think a more or more allies also agree to the fact that the 2 percent uh it should not be of some kind of ceiling but, but the mean them because they, they, they realized that there is an urgent need to increase defense spending. so again, i cannot pre, i'm to the conclusions, but i'm confident that they will have a much stronger commitment and also, and not the 10 year perspective also we did last time, but that's something which is much a stronger and also the, the, the immediate need to incre

serhiy military expert, director of the defense express company.m glad to welcome you to our air. i congratulate you, i congratulate our viewers, mr. serhiy, news from occupied berdyansk, in which the rashists occupied, in addition to the city itself, they also bought a morgue and not local residents are allowed there, even the surrounding areas are not allowed there because they take refrigerators there because they have a lot of losses in the zaporizhzhia direction, actually. and on medusa it’s supposed to be like that, for our viewers , once again, who doesn’t know the alleged opposition publication , at least that’s how it presents itself eh republished a news item from dekonomist e-e, which refers to sources in the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine about the fact that in the zaporizhzhia region during the offensive, our armed forces , unfortunately, also suffered significant losses, why we we learn about the losses in the zaporizhzhia direction somehow, you know well, from afar, very far away well, actually, uh, we understand that u

they start shelling populated areas commenting to the locals what the defense forces are doing, thisthey advance and do you need such liberators in order to set up the harrows against you but that’s how you haven’t worked there for a long time everything only yuliya understands that they are now trying to attack not only the right bank, but also the coast of the left bank, in particular , settlements such as olezhki, they are discussing that they are imitating such military work countermeasures, all of you defense, realizing that it was early, did you know the advance for self-defense through the dnipro will be to me, we are trying and did not refer to the russian military, which are considered directly . to ask about the logistics of the russian troops, you previously said that after the damage to the chongar bridge, i will remind you that it connects the crimean peninsula with mainland ukraine and its destruction occurred on the night of june 22, what the logistics of the russian occupiers will be disrupted the day before, the occupying authorities said that they are repairing this

the ministry of defense initially rejected all accusations.ut already in may , the state audit service confirmed abuses and overpayments in the ministry of defense. they were still like suspended tenders. the mafia is trying to return to multibillion-dollar schemes and continue to profit from the ukrainian army, see right now after loud scandals with overpayments, the ministry of defense decided to return to open tenders for procurement of food products through the system transparently already on june 6, for the first time during a full-scale war, these transparent tenders took place due to the influence of the egg scandal, 17 apples for 50 days , he er made his impression. with much lower prices than the current ones, according to volunteers and members of the anti-corruption council at the ministry of defense, by giving up eggs for uah 17, the state can significantly save money. on june 6, auctions were held at which well, why? no, according to such calculations, if direct contracts are awarded to the winners, then at least 4 billion hryvnia

self-defense. so we will also find ways to work with our american counterparts including government but also within the industry. there is a recent delegation of u.s. industry defense industry leaders visiting taiwan looking for those opportunities to collaborate and expand the resilience. i should say strength and resilience of the defense industries in a timely way. >> we talked about the innovations that you are hoping to speed up the timeline. obviously taiwan is getting a billion dollars in the presidential drawdown authority the same that the ukrainians are getting this year. are you asking the administration for more potentially and what other process innovations do you see to speed up the timeline? >> that is certainly one of the new ways as authorized by the national defense authorization act to find different routes in addressing taiwan's immediate defense. we appreciate again the commitment of the bipartisan bicameral members of congress as well as the administration working in alignment

somewhere, the first line of defense is already the first line of defense, but all around we are dealing and we are dealing with remote russian demining. what is happening there, that is, these mini poles are constantly being restored, what can we do here , that is, what are the countermeasures, what are the ways to overcome these things, well, at least there in theory, so that it is clear what is currently being decided by our troops in this plans well, we are actually watching the projectiles fly behind this line, uh , in fact, it will mostly bypass the operatives, uh, in some places on the first line there. a very nicely drawn arrow on me to remind me that what i mean is that the railway key was actually a long breaker. not really, there are rather ruins there and the station is standing on the ruins, ah, it will greatly harm the supply in the entire region . well, it will not be very pleasant . the railway and here it seems simple to me. everyone sees, i am not a publishing house, the secret of winter, and that's why we can honestly say that, in principle, we came close to creating a

of defense. thank you, both, for being here. full statements will be made a part of the record, and i ask each of you to keep your remarks to five minutes in order to allow time for member questions. i recognized mr. jones for his opening statement. >> chairman kane, ranking member keating, thank you for the invitation to testify and for the committee's support for nato. bipartisan leadership and engagement included in the nato parliamentary assembly reminds our allies that the united states commitment to nato remains robust, durable, and unwavering. russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, following its previous nine year campaign of aggression and illegal occupation of crimea has reaffirmed the critical importance of the transatlantic alliance. it has galvanized allied unity, driven allies to enhance the defense of allied territory, and strengthened allied commitment to democratic values, on which the alliance was built. at the nato summit in vilnius, in july, allies will take position to stren

they started building those defenses and it's not just one line of defense. is there a several lions taking into account that ukraine would receive tanks? and these defense lines do not require a lot of manpower and the russians have advantage in many power. so for the russians, it's psychologically devastating to be waiting for this contra offensive, and they don't know when and whereas the ukrainians will try to get through. however, in terms of physical barriers that they have build, it would mean that the russians have learned and we shouldn't underestimate their capabilities given that attack, always more the then defense. so so, so what have you observed and maureen, about the state of rushes, readiness, or preparedness, full ukraine's contra offensive? well, i think that they have been prepared indeed. and you've given you progression from wagner. he was the 1st one to build a defense symbolic defense line back in november of 22. and i think a, you also mobilize that kind of so the russian armed forces to pay more attention to defends. and because the

and they are now building er, their defense actually by diagonal to the peninsula.e, berdyansk or mariupol, then there is more free space to conduct offensive actions, and therefore in independence, regardless of how much they will transfer their forces and means, they will still not be enough to close all lines of defense and some lines of defense they will even ignore because there will be nowhere for them to retreat and they will try to delay time for this very reason they built a line of defense diagonally so that along the land routes to retreat as long as possible in case they have to november and they will have to and about the leopards and bradley well, there is no technique that does not burn that cannot be destroyed there is no such uh technique in general in the world but why were they used in particular i already said at the very beginning that this supply lane and what makes it dangerous, a large number of high-explosive weapons, a-a, secrets from anti-tank missiles, and also this a-a intelligence, reconnaissance by combat, it uncovers those artillery p

on the bravado defense, who knew the trump defense would be a spanish word, but here we are. so, he was bluffing,, is his defense, when we hear him say things like they presented me this, and the woman says, wow. she is apparently seeing something that they presented to him, and unless building plans for golf courses can make her say wow, the context seemed to suggest it's classified document involving iran. let's give the trump defense the airing it deserves. take us much time as you need to consider for us the bravado defense. >> okay, you heard me pause for a second. that's about as much as that defense deserves. so, first of all, just on the tape, and you can disregard, which is very deserving, obsequious behavior, the type of people trump surrounded himself but. that tape is disgusting. even if it is true that it is bravado, i was national security adviser for the justice department, we knew of people who used to brag about classified information, classified operations, all that kind of stuff. you do that, that is so reprehensible. you know, even if it's false. that's no

on june 15, the country's defense minister will meet with the heads of twenty-five major western defense companies reports jews in politics want gunsmiths giants to increase production to help ukrainian neo-nazis the companies themselves demand guarantees of long-term cooperation to justify investment in new supply chain production facilities and personnel, that is, they want the war to go on longer and do not hide it among those invited to the meeting of the head of the american lynxes, he and lohit martin racing plan to increase production from tempo patriots to 12 units per year and transfer. in the extreme there are five more complexes. wall street george writes about this with reference to the company's ceo gregor case. and this attention to the screen representatives of another us arms giant locket martin is free from production. rso highmars and f-35 f-16 fighters time, they went to the gay parade with rainbows. with flags and fans, the real triumph of tolerance and on broadway the prestigious tony wortz theater award in the nominations of best actor in a musical and best supporti

it really only hits defense. nondefense will actually go up and defense will be cut by 1% from last year's amount. what 234 the world -- what in the world? why would it be set up that way? why would it be designed to shape where it hits defense? and where there were other options to get to actual appropriations, why wouldn't we do something like that that's nonpartisan, that's simple and straightforward to be able to do? the student loan suspension, there's been much publicity on the right about, well, this ends the student loan suspensions, except it ends it on july 30, when president biden already says he's ending it on august 30. in fact, cbo said, this doesn't save any money at all because it was already going away. it literally moves it forward a month but doesn't change a thing. then there is a work requirement process which i have to say i am a big believer in work requirement. i think work is dignity, i think work brings dignity to a family and an individual, unlike anything else that family can bring. i

we see our defenses. we also strongly believe that peace can ultimately be achieved by an open willingness to dialogue on the foundation of respect and equality but also on having that strength and having the leverage and confidence to engage. in everything we do, it's a whole balance. we are very often in a position of having to balance the need to expand our international activity space, in the need to have more international visitors, they need to fortify our defenses against a potential danger of seeing an accelerated timeline, and it is all a very delicate balance but i think there are certain necessities that we must do as a means of survival, and those do include fortify our self defenses. >> all right. suddenly we are running out of time. we have ten more minutes and i have four people, so jessica from voa. jessica stone. >> thank you for doing this. jumping on his question of provocation i wonder what you would say to the china hawks in congress today about the rhetoric that they sometimes use to

we need more cooperation, not only drove by exercise is also by defense of industry defense ottoman cooperation. and we are working on it. and of course, i think we should and we can, and we ought to do more in the region of into partnership with india because we are approaching times, we can't really predict what is going to happen in the next few years. and we need the strategic populace like indonesia, like india, for example, especially and made up a story is, mentions defense on and then cooperation. they, we know that india relies heavily on russia for its defense equipment. is this is germany seeking to change that well versed the stories told me that in an exclusive interview that i did with him in jakarta or on monday. but it's not in germany's interest for india to be so dependent on russia's imports. and we mustn't forget that india is the world's largest importer and so they go to countries actively seeking those inputs of weapons and germany's sometimes seen as being a too restrictive when it comes to this question. so borders this tories is urging gemini to re think it's an export

and now, after all , we have manipulators dug in there, we have a real line of defense there, and we during the liberation of kherson oblast kherson, when it came to the fact that it was necessary to somehow block the logistics routes or somehow do something with them, with all their rear bases, but here we return to the complexity of this well, we see such and such a story when, in fact, our troops have to pass through these are all lines of defense there, someone says that this is some other line of support, while the fighting is still going on in other places, somewhere the first line of defense of the proron is already there, but all around we are dealing with alternating fields and we are dealing with remote russian mining, which is sown there is happening, that is, these mini poles are constantly being restored, what can we do here, well, that is, what are the methods of countermeasures, what are the ways of overcoming these things, well, at least there in theory, so that it is clear what is currently being decided by our troops in this plan, well, we actually and we watch the

she said to a series of small scale on the defensive in the east. um, especially it on the toner, the quote, she quoted the epicenter, the possibilities. and yesterday evening she kind of posted again on, on the telecom messaging apps saying that you created to submit games. there was up to one mile and simply vintages around the quote of that has been confirmed by the come onto a few frames ground forces as well. we're here to go for ports of intense fighting, auditory fire, and several locations. i don't, but i have to see the situation with the front line is, is a stadium peak. and you know, there's a little general information from the ukranian military. they've been really tight lipped about the details of this operation. when we do know, of course, is that there has been significant military activity along multiple points on the front line in recent weeks that form signed the false expressions of a several 100 miles from south to to the northeast. and ukraine is when he kind of stepped up and recent weeks, long range alternative attacks, the o

from the ministry of defense from the state budget we fully financed this group. that's just from may 22 to may 23 , the state paid for salaries and incentive payments company rub 86 billion 262 million in this case , the owner of the company competition. through voentorg despite the fact that the very content of wagner was on the shoulders of the state, for the year he received money from the state, supplying food, not providing food services in the army, he earned 80 billion rubles. i hope that this is the progress of these works. no one stole anything, certainly less. of course, we will deal with all this with the so-called counter-offensive of the ukrainian army in the zone of special military operation, the situation inside russia did not affect the situation in any way. field. fighting, moreover, the widely publicized campaign of ukrainian militants turned out to be huge losses for the kiev regime. at their meeting today , the president also spoke, who have done a lot to ensure that this combat work goes on with us at the proper level. and now they just gave

there was a huge opposition in the ministry of defense to launch the system transparently.formation based on the number of rations. you can understand the number of our army. the president is talking about this. there are no problems. and what happened now thanks to as the egg scandal is already called yes thanks to him the anti-corruption council was created under the ministry of defense no i judged such a street as a person who was elected and was elected more or less the number of votes i got was unexpected, even for me. well, now it’s called the procurement commission , in fact, it’s a tender committee, so step number one was to shout out to bring food to a transparent step for us. step number two. i was very afraid that the suppliers would not come out . step number three, while we were negotiating, the ministry of defense sent its letter to the cabinet of ministers asking to extend contracts at inflated prices for an indefinite period sometime after the war let's analyze it thanks to the public nature of this letter, it was withdrawn by the ministry of defense, step n

in the department of defense. thank you, both, for being here. full statements will be made a part of the record, and i ask each of you to keep your remarks to five minutes in order to allow time for member questions. i recognized mr. jones for his opening statement. >> chairman kane, ranking member keating, thank you for the invitation to testify and for the committee's support for nato. bipartisan leadership and engagement included in the nato parliamentary assembly reminds our allies that the united states commitment to nato remains robust, durable, and unwavering. russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, following its previous nine year campaign of aggression and illegal occupation of crimea has reaffirmed the critical importance of the transatlantic alliance. it has galvanized allied unity, driven allies to enhance the defense of allied territory, and strengthened allied commitment to democratic values, on which the alliance was built. at the nato summit in vilnius, in july, allies will take position to stren

russia has switched to active defense .ill the largest defense network since the second world war save putin ? are hiding the natal lines of the russian federation and what trap was prepared for the armed forces of ukraine, ours was hit once before he can answer me, the analysis of roman military experts is growing exclusive facts of the week the counteroffensive is only gaining momentum. that's how ukrainian fighters under the cover of western armor are storming the russian positions near bakhmut. let's go and take them under control . they were fortifying themselves. they were fortified like that. they were fortified there. there is a full height. there is still an overlap . deployed a wide protective network along the entire front line during the second world war. of course, this is not a continuous defensive wall in donetsk region, the enemy planned to advance, so defensive structures and less lelenkih take it that there are three lines or 4 rather complicated because there are these red dots that merge into the lines t

is there more information about additional air defense for ukraine? did they already talk about it at today's meeting? is there any updated information? oksana is accurate. i don't have any information at the moment, but it is about the fact that it is very necessary, as it is one of the priority issues, namely the provision of anti-aircraft defense, and there is such and such a message that this will be given one of the greatest attention by the top, that is, we expect some positive decisions today for of ukraine well, accordingly, ms. tetiana would like to ask you about your feelings about ukrainian european integration, what moods currently prevail in brussels. well, if we are talking about the surrounding political environment , how seriously are they prepared to consider the accelerated accession of ukraine to the european union, well, this is actually such a deep question and about this, well , we know that europe is generally very cautious , that is, politicians are careful about these reasons, as we can see that ukraine is very support, but ta

their defense commanders. and i'm cd is vehicles departing. any tell them ship, just like the or defender exercise over europe, sarah space. this maritime drills simulates an attack against one natal country, the cold, the other 13 life to come to its defense. the most important. they said that the debt free shipping cost safer. i see alliance of communications and the function in harvard's must be insured and the way through a new quote for those so reasons because we see in the green, the bulky itself of, uh, are you putting in the 4th sent on the har, birds uh has devastating uh, results and outcomes. nato is back to what has to be that the core of the alliance since its foundation to terrance and defense. hoping that this sends a clear message to the restaurant other potential enemies, not to test the alliance results. now some of the news headlines void french president the memo my call has met with german chancellor, all of schultz and polish president dante due to empowers the 3 lead is discussed going on going support for ukraine and p

the defense ministers of ukraine's partner countries have already arrived there.eeting will be only the aviation one, on which the process of supplying fighter jets to the armed forces of ukraine will be decided, and the final one before the nato summit in vilnius, which will be held in july, what will be discussed at this meeting of ministers

the russians managed to build quite heavy defense lines and break through them . that ukrainians have the courage and determination to liberate the land and repel the russians yuriy fedorenko, the commander of the attack unmanned aerial systems of the achilles of the 92nd separate mechanized brigade named after the koshovo ataman ivan sirko appeared on in connection with us. i welcome you not on our air. glory to ukraine , glory to the heroes, mr. yury, but there is forward movement in various sections of the bakhmut direction, that is what president zelensky said in his evening address. and what is the situation on the flanks around bakhmut? question, let's take a map that shows the line of contact with the russian occupation forces and look at it in dynamics over the last month and a half, we will be able to see that along the direction , including the bakhmut, due to the strength of the defense there are significant successes in knocking the enemy out of unnecessary positions, advancing forward, occupying advantageous plasmas, securing them and , in general, deoccupying the territo

everything is shot here, everything in defense is much easier for them now, because well, we all know , the terrain is the area, everyone has settled here, and they and we, so what. they were preparing , of course, because, well, they did not say about the counteroffensive , only, well, only those who are out of politics in general, as they say they were waiting, they were preparing, we were also preparing, well, yes, we will wait for news and information from you , great endurance and military character , the most important thing is for you and your comrades. the political scientist is well known to our viewers, we used to have a huge number of conversations related to the internal politics of our country. now we are talking about the military situation in the bakhmut area. such summary analytics every day at the mirror, we dream of not being judged by our skin , becoming more self-confident will help aquadermis , a highly effective natural tonic bridge made using revolutionary technology aquadermis is completely safe and has no side effects aquadermis cares for, moisturizes, protect

the united states announced the details of their new defense package, so we got an idea of ​​what itfocused on. anti-aircraft defense we started with norway and the commitment that they supply more artillery shells is the focus of the current counteroffensive, which the minister of defense of ukraine informed other ministers of defense about from the official statements, we only heard that it was said with toltenberg that it is premature to draw any conclusions, everyone here is careful with words and conclusions. yes, they have seen certain ukrainian successes on the front and also know about ukrainian losses, but no one is going to evaluate this offensive. so this is the main focus of the current meeting. what is happening now and another question for the long term is the rebuilding of the ukrainian air force , it takes time, but there is another question , take into account that this meeting will take place immediately before the nato summit next month, so the question arises as to what security guarantees nato will provide to ukraine, there are countries on the eastern side of th

is at a high level, so i am sure that this initiative will be kept by the defense forces and, taking advantage of the favorable weather conditions , the defense will be able to carry out a number of measures to document our territories, which will become turning points in the russian-ukrainian war , the company works to strike them without question of the achilles aviation complexes and uh, there are such beautiful videos mounted under uh, well, beautiful videos , beautiful, your work is mounted uh, beautiful such a selection to good classical music. yes, someone tried. hmm, tell us a little about the latest russian equipment used by the russians . who did you negate a bit? it is possible to achieve significant success when the forces of our unit stop the e-e or arm the machine gun or the enemy ags or break up the reserve that are suitable. that is, it is a systematic work , but it is worth noting that there is still a significant amount videos that will be interesting for ukrainians will be published later after the task has been completely completed in the sector, because now unfor