spent on defense. the short answer is, we spend a lot on defense. there are lots of ways to measure this, but let's start with a few basics. this is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year. we spent about $900 billion on defense, roughly one out of every eight dollars in government spending, 12% of all federal spending. you can see the biggest light that slice of the budget is mandatory spending or entitlements, benefits like social security and medicare, and that is a growing part of the federal budget, but that defense slice is pretty big, particularly when compared to the nondefense discretionary budget, which is funding all the things we talk about the federal government does, national parks, grants to state and local governments, and so forth. even though it is only 12% of the budget, it is pretty big. the department of defense buys more goods, services and software than all other federal government agencies combined. the department of defense employs about 2.2 million people, uniform and civilians. that i

should spend on defense? i know a little bit about the federal budget but i'm more comfortable talking about social security, low income home energy, the state and local tax itductions than the defense budget. so i called my colleague and he said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to the question. so here we are. you can read all 20,000 words on the website. but he promised he will not try to read all of them today. i want to start with a yegz i can't answer, how much does the u.s. spend on defense. so dan, can we get the first slide up? the short answer is we spend a lot on defense. there are a lot of ways to measure this but let's start with a few basics. this is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year. we spent about $900 billion on defense, roughly one out of every $8 in government spending, 12% of all federal spending. you can see here that the biggest slice of the budget is mandatory spending or entitlements, benefits like social security and medicare. that is a

the definition of two words is defense without weapons.ense without weapons means without having a weapon you can get rid of yourself, well, this is a very simple and basic definition, but today, for example, technology that changes in some places may change the meaning of weapons, for example, we have a weapon called a cyber weapon, a biological biological weapon, an electromagnetic weapon today's weapons are called them, and in our definition, we do not mean these weapons, but they are common weapons that can be defended, but now we can defend with different types, for example, we can design an electromagnetic dome against small birds. let's do it and perform it, which can't be seen but can be done for example, at what level should we control the arrival of the bird and take the route? depending on the type of design that is done , it can be adjusted with the power of the transmitter. i mean, for example, on the scale of a city, this would happen on a smaller scale, for example, the limit of a factory, a limit that can be defined, becaus

he spoke of a need for air defense, additional air defense, ground-based air defense capabilities. and also artillery platforms and artillery munitions. and so that's been our focus and we have throughout focused on what we know that ukraine's going to need and that focus, i think, has been very, very instrumental in making sure that we can -- that president zelenskyy can protect his cities and also protect his troops. so we'll continue that work. f-16's, in terms of when they will arrive, as you know, we have a training, an f-16 pilot coalition, training coalition, that's working right now to train pilots. that work has begun in europe and also we're training pilots in the united states as well. as we look at, you know, what it will take to provide an initial capability, we'll take months, as we said before. so earliest is next spring when we can begin to see an additional capability. i certainly don't want to counter what the chairman just said. but my assessment is that the ukrainians are making steady progress. and that's pretty much i think what the chairman said earlier. and

, successful defensive actions. well, this story about a full-scale offensive, it was definitely an ipso, well, this is my , so to speak, my assumption, so after their conditional volunteers announced a public collection for packages for 200 rashists, i think that here are the further statements of putin it should be perceived in that way. they really have big ones losses in both equipment and manpower. indeed , individual units refuse to go on an assault and try to avoid their role and fate as cannon fodder. that is, in fact , these are the tasks, well, they do not have the resources today to fulfill those deadlines in that way. and this means that the losses for the enemy are really felt. common. also about mobilization, two words, the newly appointed deputy minister of defense of ukraine, natalya kalmykova, recently gave an interview in which she called on ukrainian men, well, not men, probably women, that of ukrainian citizens, not to wait for summons, but to come to the tsksp themselves and look for their place

don't have to have a defense to dust defense budget near us -- defense budget near us to win. just ask the taliban. i want you to see these inputs but not think they are conclusive analyses or predictions of outcomes in hypothetical conflicts. a couple of more and i'm going to make some general points. this is giving a sense, we were talking on the sidelines that the $240 billion estimate of china's know terry budget is highly debated and uncertainty -- uncertain by plus or -50%. it could be well into the $300 billion range. there is a study saying it could be even higher than that. but it is somewhere between one third and one half of american military spending, easily the second-biggest budget on earth, doubling every seven to 10 years, and probably will keep doubling every seven to 10 years. it is less than 2% of china's gdp, but they become substantial enough and that is still a lot of money. and the war we worry about winning against china is near this. i don't think they could come close to that. if i could bring down the defense budget and the budget request, if you are

us defense, what was his previous position? retiring from the army in 2016, he immediately moved to the chair of a member of the board of directors of reton, becoming a member of the board of directors. rayton is an american military-industrial company , one of the largest suppliers of weapons and military equipment for the us armed forces, exporting weapons to other countries, including f-16 bombers, which will be transferred to ukraine no earlier than next spring. austin said this at a press conference in brussels: the pentagon, its contractors are bound by mutual responsibility, this circle is not only close, but also very united. the security of our democracy requires competent civilian control of our military, subordinating military authority to civilian authority. all my life i have adhered to this principle in war in peace. apparently, austin is very much his own man in certain circles, and no one in the usa will call this corruption, this is the norm for them. i was a general and a soldier, and i'm proud of it. accordin

operations, active defense, transitions to defense when necessary, how now ukrainian units are movinge east, etc., and here it seems to me that our partners really have an understanding that the nature of the conditions for conducting hostilities can change. we set maximalist goals for obvious reasons, because the war on our territory, absolutely no one can be blamed for anything here, but actually, it is calculated that this war can last at least one more year until 2025, that is, in various forms, of high intensity, less. high, lower, but approximately such calculations are laid out, but even beyond how long the war will last, there is an absolute understanding that defense budgets and aid to ukraine must receive both the supply of shells and the production of weapons, but regarding the statement that all nato members agree that ukraine should become a member alliance, this is a prospect for what time and under what conditions, what do you think? i think it's very important, but it's also very good. a signal for us, but it must be understood that it depends on two things, and they a

national security and defense council. ugh.ven theoretically, he is the bearer of the largest mass of information in this country, because he is the only person who receives the completeness of information, another such person simply does not exist. there are people, there are channels, receiving this information, but the only person who receives all the information from all the intelligence services, from all the analysts, from all the centers that exist, is the president of ukraine. it is hard enough for me to imagine that he does not have some information. there you can argue about the interpretation of this information, about the conclusions drawn by those analysts who provide him with this information, or about his own interpretation or conclusions, but i cannot imagine an information vacuum, if i speak about the difficult situation, yes, it is really difficult, winning a war, especially in the foreseeable future against a country that has such a huge resource, is actually difficult, it is objective, but when zelensky's po

our defense strategy describes the people's republic of china as our defense competitor, highlights the end of civic security and the fact that -- and underscores technologies to meet the shifting environment. aukus is a critical part of how we meet these goals. it also describes a holistic response to strategies that competitors are in -- are pursuing and calls on the department of defense to -- aukus will help us realize the concepts laid out in national security and defense strategy. second, how are we seizing on the generational opportunities. through pillar one, united states, not a kingdom, and australia have committed to conduct naval nuclear propulsion in a manner consistent with our legal obligations and we are moving swiftly. since the announcement in march of this year, three australian officers have graduated from u.s. clear power school and the uss north carolina helped us increase our commitment. through the capabilities line of effort, we are enhancing cooperation in other military capabilities. for example, under the auspices of the artificial intelligence working group,

meeting of the ukraine-nato council at the level. defense ministers and separately the defense ministerslliance. all this at the bloc's headquarters in brussels. the key topic of the two-day talks: aid to ukraine. western partners once again proved that they support ukraine not in words, but in deeds, in the great war with the occupier. with russian money , belgium was the first in europe to create a special fund for our country from frozen funds in the eu russian assets. the assets themselves and the income from them are the competence of the european union. we do not influence them, and taxes on the incomes we receive are our competence, and we decided that 100% of these revenues will go to the country together, that is 1.7 billion. in general, about 200 billion euros of the central bank of russia are blocked in belgium , they are kept by two european depositories, the german and most of them the belgian eurocli. in the eu, as deckrow noted, they have not yet found a legal way to confiscate all russian assets, but the profits from them are officially, corporately tax and according to e

the russian ministry of defense announced that five drones were allegedly destroyed, but the video on social networks shows smoke as if from a fire. in sochi, it was reported that a drone was shot down near the airport, as a result of which 14 flights were delayed, the success of the operation was later reported by our scouts who organized the attack. it is known that the parking lot of russian helicopters was hit in the adler area. and today ukraine started. at precisely 9 a.m. , our cities stopped for a moment of silence to remember our fallen defenders and thank them for free ukraine. khreschatyk stopped in kyiv in lviv. our brave boys and girls gathered near the shevchenko monument. soldiers, policemen, national guardsmen, and local residents gathered in bags near the main flag. odesa square was covered with hundreds of yellow and blue flags with names dead heroes in rivne, people lined up with flags in their hands on independence square. the most blessed epiphanius joined them. in dnipro, the central avenues froze. in front-line zaporizhzhia , an air alarm sounded during the mome

the combat operations around avdiivka with details from our military and about new defense projectsor the armed forces of ukraine. more on that in a moment. today, on the night of october 23, the enemy used 13 mortars in ukraine. one kh-59 missile and one drone of an unknown type. all these targets were shot down, and after that the commander of the air force mykola olyschuk shared a video that showed the first use of the holk anti-aircraft missile system , which, while repelling a russian attack, shot down two air targets, either over the sea or over a reservoir, as it can be determined from this video. why is this important? now we will see in this video that the air force has finally started using the hawk mirror, this is actually the hawk that we were promised a year ago from spain and only now the fact of using this sam has been confirmed. why is this story important, primarily because on the one hand, the holk air defense system belongs to the outdated complexes, there among range, which can destroy targets with anti-aircraft missiles at a range of up to 50 km. now we see a vi

complex, separately, in general, the security sector and defense, if we simply talk about the defense-industrial complex, then this is production and try to move as much as possible in the direction that we should be minimally dependent on partners for key samples. military equipment, okay, we are there we receive f16, but we must understand that service, repair, equipment, we can do in ukraine, if we are talking about ammunition of different calibers, then of course, again, a relevant and important issue is the creation of an entire line of ammunition that will be manufactured in in ukraine, or in neighboring countries, or by creations through the creation of separate enterprises or joint enterprises or the creation of separate enterprises on the territory of ukraine or outside of it, we must equip our capabilities to the maximum, and this is very ... relevant, you see yakraskrava the situation with israel , when all the experts started talking about the fact that the united states will divert attention to israel, it will not be able to provide both countries with weapons, and the united states

defense programs. she was the executive vice president for the nuclear threat initiative and after we hear from her and her remarks, our moderator will moderate a roundtable with deborah and others and he will introduce him -- them. we will have time to hear from the audience here. let's get moving, please join me in welcoming assistant secretary deborah rosenblum. [applause] deborah: the morning -- >> thank you very much for that introduction. i want to thank creative v. elenis for -- i want to think -- thank csis or hosting us today. i also want to thank csis for your collective team's patients. 24 months, it wasn't quite 24 months but 24 months later, we are here to discuss the results of the bio posture review and how our work at the department also fits well into the work of the national security council and the white house under previously beth cameron -- and other doctors who are -- who is with us today in updating the national find -- biodefense strategy as well as developing the implementation

brandy venice principal deputy fort defense for nuclear chemical and biological defense programs. she has held numerous senior federal government leadership positions, including chief of advanced and emergency threats at threat reduction agency, where she was awarded for innovations in detecting contaminated battlefields. next is richard johnson, a deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction policy. he was previously at the nuclear threat initiative and also at the state department, where he was a deputy lead coordinator for rand nuclear if limitations are during the obama ministration, richard served as director of nonproliferation on national security council. welcome to all of you. deborah, thank you for your opening comments. there is a lot to talk about. let's take the history back a little bit. you mentioned that the u.s. has been involved in conflict operations in every declared pandemic of the 20th and 21st century. so we have experience with operating in a biologically contaminated battlefields, one way or another. let's go

systems, and i constantly i emphasize this. against missile defense, i.e. defense against ballisticles, high-speed hypersonic missiles. i will remind everyone that we were promised to place 96 launchers along the border of ukraine. installations of the iskander complexes, it is 96 * 2, because in each launcher iskander two missiles, not one, as was the case at point u or previous projects such as the scud, which, by the way, the ssr again transferred the russian federation to iran, and now it is trying to get them from there under the guise of iranian technology, so, with regard to ukraine, we need to focus specifically on anti-missile defense systems, and then on air defense systems, well, as an element of air defense and, to a lesser extent, against missile defense, we need to develop our own fighter projects, not forgetting in any case, so that we need to receive a very significant assortment and nomenclature of equipment from our western colleagues, partners in the now global coalition, mr. oleksandr, you said, first of all , anti-missile and anti-aircraft ... as a basic priorit

sector, who were more concerned with political issues than defense itself.ell, finally, the choice of the day was very good, doomsday is the annual cycle of torah reading, which ends, is celebrated very loudly and many soldiers and officers of the israel defense forces went on vacation. and the operation itself was planned very well, they were able to blind, silence, undermine and strategically, not tactically deceive - the defense forces, so that they were blind and deaf. and remained uncoordinated the first day, it is a little difficult to imagine in our realities, but really in march of this year, several pilots, actually not several, pilots of one of the brigades, reservists, refused to come to training in israel, due to protests , which were related to the judicial reform, then, yes, this is an amazing story, when we understand what the military actually refuse to perform their direct duties, because as citizens, they now see themselves more brightly, well, i can't explain it any other way, mr. sergey, what are the prospects for the gas sector in genera

and calls on the department of defense to build ensuring advantages across the defense ecosystem. aukus will help us real the concepts laid out in both the national security and national defense strategy. second, how are we seizing on the generational opportunity of aukus? through pillar one of aukus, the united states, the united kingdom and australia have committed to conduct naval nuclear propulsion cooperation in a manner that is fully consistent with our respective legal obligations and that sets the highest nonproliferation standard. we are moving on swiftly. since the announcement of the optimal pathway march of this year, three australian officers have graduated from u.s. nuclear power school and the uss north carolina conducted the first port visit under our commitment to encrust rotations of nuclear powered attack submarines to australia. through the aukus advanced capabilities line of effort, also referred to as pillar two, we are enhancing cooperation in other critical military capabilitiings. in april under the auspices of the artificial intelligence working group we

hicks spoke about the program and other emerging technologies in defense at a national defense industrial association conference in washington, dc. [applause] >> thank you. the job of deputy secretary of defense is likely known to be one of the toughest government. it is the chief operating officer for the largest employer in the world. beginning her government service as a presidential management intern and spending time in and out of government, she was quite familiar the demands of the job before she was sworn in. she was well-prepared to take them on. prior to her current position, she was the senior vice president henry kissinger chair and director of international security at csis. at least her current title is a little shorter than that. she was sworn in as the 35th deputy secretary of defense in 2021. i think it is interesting that the title of her dissertation at m.i.t. was change agents. who leads and why in the execution of national security policy? given the swirl of strategic and technological change all around us, i would say a change agent is exactly what our times call for

approaches or active defense in certain areas. will also say that the events in israel make us worry whether this will not affect the amount of aid from the united states. we know that biden said yesterday that the united states is the greatest nation in the history of mankind, and we are able to provide help immediately and simultaneously to ukraine, and we can and should, because we are the largest, most powerful country, in fact, when we talk about the real reserves of the military, the systems in the united states, and er , the financial power of the united states, i think that really, to talk about the fact that the united states cannot provide such two conflicts that two days that are happening now in the ukraine with a sufficient amount of military equipment, and in general i think that it is, well, the us has enough resources to take such measures, the main thing is for the us to act more actively, because all of last year, the approaches of the united states were due to possible losses russia to achieve a negotiating posi

our leaders also endorsed a new defense investment pledge. and that pledge affirmed our shared commitment as allies to spend at least 2% of g.d.p. on defense. let me also underscore the words of at least 2%. we urgently need to do more to fulfill the commitment all of our leaders have made and this investment will help us strengthen our defense industrial bases, standardized critical munitions and improve nato operability. nato new defense production plan will guide this important work and aggregate demand to meet our capability targets and encourage multinational cooperation and foster more agile procurement and enhance our transparency with industry. finally, we reaffirmed our commitment to a free and conch ukraine. we established the nato-ukraine counsel and develop a package into a multi year program for critical nonlethal aid. we expanded nato practical and nonlethal support for ukraine including medical supplies and m.r.e.'s and that complements bilateral security assistance that the united states and other countries around the world th

there uses the so-called elastic defense, when the first lines of the enemy there restrain our advanceexhaust us, relatively speaking, and then the paratroopers immediately counterattack, it was written, particularly in the new york times, there were others there interpretation of the action of the enemy's defense, what is actually happening along the battle, how the enemy tries to defend, whatever we call it, this is also not some kind of sensation, there is nothing new in this tactic, it is what is happening and not only in this direction , and such, let's say, again dragging, this is also not exclusively a tactic of the russians, for example, when we worked in another direction, there we did not attack, we defended, and the same story was used when we were under pressure, relatively speaking, from the enemy lost some ground accordingly our assault units there if it was appropriate, in the opinion of the decision-makers, the command, then they tried to push those positions back if they were important positions, so whatever we call it, elastic defense, other defense, it happens not on

bio defense review. we are doing this today under the offices of bipartisan alliance for global health security cochair, former cdc director julie, and former senator richard special thanks to my colleagues at csis, michaela , mclean, sophia, special thanks to that csis production team that is putting this altogether, eric, alex. theo and duane. and special thanks especially to jennifer nicholson who has helped us over many weeks and planning this out and many others that i can't really begin to humor, there has been a lot of support for putting this together. bipartisan, as we were here in this post-covid moment, and it has the potential, as we were here, to bring about fundamental changes. a few minutes ago, we published here at csis , my colleague emily harding, deputy director of international security programs, and i published article questions he's on the release of the ppr. michaela, we recently published an essay entitled the worst is over, now what, that examined this post-covid moment that we h

like air defense systems, they are defensive measures that countries go to in order to protect their people and capital from enemy attacks. currently, these weapons are becoming more advanced day by day to increase the security factor. but the important issue is that with the passage of time and the advancement of technology, the approach of wars gradually it changed and was extended to civilian areas as well. in this era, in order to speed up the invasion of the country, threats in various fields have been taken into consideration, which are referred to as hybrid threats and various tools such as economic war, sanctions, war of destruction, psychological war, agricultural terrorism, biological terrorism, creating chaos and namidi is used to separate the people from the government in order to overthrow the government systems. maybe this problem has made different countries of the world, especially advanced countries , pay special attention to non-operational defense. you must be asking about other defenses what is the cause? defense is the persian equivalent of the word defense, and

system, the buk air defense system is a means of anti-aircraft defense of the enemy, which hinders ouricles from performing reconnaissance and impression tasks , well, as you can see below, these are tanks, and guns, self-propelled artillery installations, bmp , armored personnel carriers, military vehicles and , accordingly, enemy positions, so this whole range of targets. the unit impresses every day, since the beginning of october we already have 11 destroyed enemy units on our account, and they will also ask what president zelensky publicly promised that the ukrainian army will take bahmud will take it by the end of the year, or does this create some kind of psychological pressure on you, on your brothers, what does this mean in principle? i think that we are talking about something else here, there is a stake meeting, which includes a certain category of representatives of the village bloc , who have all the information about intelligence, the state of the enemy's position, their capabilities, reserves and plans, evaluating, information about the enemy and evaluating the potential

drones and other weapons that... attack ukraine and teach them to bypass ukrainian anti-aircraft defense. for the third week , waves of attack drones are attacking the south. where are russian forces aiming, how difficult repel from the game drones that fly in turn, or the ukrainian air defense is exhausted. drones hit the parking lot of russian helicopters in the city of sochi. the russian telegram channel shot writes that it was allegedly the first time the armed forces of ukraine attacked the krasnodar territory with bayraktarars. could the ukrainian army apply this. the type of drones targeted in russia and what continues to explode in crimea, let's talk. special operation barinya , a russian serviceman recruited by a ukrainian gang, convinced 11 russian military armies to surrender. how was it prepared and implemented the operation, we will hear the details from the representative of the main intelligence department. wait. every morning from 9:00, our team collects important news and together with you and experts we discuss military and political issues. situation in ukraine, write

least 20 representatives of the defense industry. european country. among them, one of the top managers of the manufacturer of the caesar installation, which is currently demonstrating its capabilities in ukraine, she armed with the ukrainian military. actually, such large delegations are obviously intended to deepen and expand cooperation. what kind of cooperation can this be, if only the manufacturers are going in such numbers. you have correctly pointed it out. well, the composition itself, the large composition of such a delegation, is evidence of what is at stake, it is not just about a symbolic visit, purely political, but about the resolution of a whole series of issues, specific substantive issues, specifically of a defensive nature. i think that the arrival of such a delegation, he has the goal is several tasks at once, in particular, this is precisely the definition. specific needs of the ukrainian army, what exactly, how can it help us, what types of weapons do we need now, both today and in the future, in addition, you me

right now, we are hot and tense along the entire front line, where our armed forces and defense forcesonduct both defensive and offensive actions, but two areas have now come to the fore in terms of information, these are avdiyivka and the kupinsko-lymanskyi direction. as for avdiivka, the russian invaders have been on the offensive for almost a week since october 10. the visual situation resembles the logic of actions around bakhmut when it came to flanking coverage with trying to advance from the north and from the south in order to get behind our troops and cut off the supply routes. in the course of fierce battles, the ukrainian defense forces repelled the first concentrated enemy assaults around avdiyivka, and these were large-scale actions involving one force, at least at the level of a regiment and several brigades. and companies, as well as the attacks from the north and south on avdivka were preceded by the powerful work of russian aviation and artillery, which indicates such a the enemy's planned and massive approach to conducting these offensive actions. in the course of rep

leading sector number od of the defense of kyiv, the basis of which was tro units, organized the defense of the city from the north. i saw, among these military personnel, they were tax collectors, in my opinion, there was a colonel and there was a general bargilivych, which caused me mixed feelings, because i had never seen generals on the front line before that moment. for almost one and a half years, he headed the headquarters of the khortyts operational-strategic group of troops, whose troops conducted a number of notable military operations, in particular, the kharkiv offensive. undoubtedly, the combat experience and professionalism of general anatoly bargelevich will be a powerful driver of further development and strengthening of territorial defense. now he will serve the army. poland handed over the skubyanka recreation base to the military, which used to belong to the russian embassy. now , training for territorial defense troops will be held in these territories, said the head of the polish defense department , marish blaszczyk. i will remind the russian embassy has leased the

fund, which will be aimed at supporting the ukrainian defense industry or the defense industry , inn the middle of ukraine, that is, as far as i understood the statements again, these can be partner international projects, to which this money from this fund can be directed, which still needs to be created, so maybe, maybe, this alliance will be somehow connected with the foundation, that is, who works in the alliance, or who joined the alliance, will be able to expect some or may be somehow related to this foundation, but this is my assumption for today. mr. pavle, just before the forum, you held one of your own forum, which was such, well, the premise of the biggest event, where there were meetings with american companies, with european companies, and actually just your company first of all, well, it is clear what exactly foreign companies want, which were the conclusions related to the initiative american european companies in your event? yes, it was such an informal, let's say, event, more like a reception than a forum, although it was attended by the minister of strategic indust

american-ukrainian defense treaties and cooperation.ow do we make it so that we can get into the american defense for broadcasting, yes, we understand that there are monsters of the american defense industry, i will not list them, but they are very good at fulfilling government orders, because the american taxpayers are quite good at financing the implementation, so to speak, of the same missile system, the news arrived recently that it is possible that the americans are going to remove uh, how about the missiles from combat duty, the atekens missiles we dreamed of, well, but in any case, we understand, we have a missile program, we have rocket engineers, we have state budgets, we have a need for the production of powerful long-range missiles, we can do all this, on the other hand, there are certain problems with funds, well, the problem is, i don’t know if there is any prospect of interest in the same american weapons monsters, large multinational american companies, companies, you know, i think it's appropriate of how we will create s

defense strategy requires a u.s.uclear force that is either larger in size, different in composition or both, and it says therefore decisions must be made now. the commission did not quite go so far to say we have to increase our forces, although all of the recommendations about having a plan larger b-21 force power more nuclear submarines or more large cruise missiles seem to point in that direction. can you explain that formulation to meet? is the commission really saying we need to add more forces or is it stopping just short of that? >> thanks very much. i will just quote directly from the report. one thing i would like to highlight is the strategy. for people who have not read the report, we do say that the united states needs a defense strategy that can deter and if necessary defeat russia and china simultaneously. second, we say america's traditional nuclear strategy, the fundamentals are sound. we do not need a fundamental rethink but we need to adjust our posture to deal with this new two-peer reality. what

less survive, but although kyiv spent, just this year it spent 1 billion 200 million hryvnias on defense needs, planned and allocated, and such a city as zvyagel, which we recently renamed, where the budget is made up almost entirely from revenues from the military units located in it, i.e. he will not overflow. but there will not be the most necessary things, i proposed that, i have one of the amendments, that these cities, where the share of pdf from the military is 30 percent or more, should not be touched at all, the logic is very simple, so what we said that it just minimally necessary in order for the city to exist, so what about it? they will do, at the expense of which they will, support the life activities of these towns, which are the rear for our military , where their families live, where people live, where children will not be able to go to school or receive quality medical care on the spot, that is, i still want to warn against creating sources of tension in local communities, especially at a time when there is a threat to the very existence of the state over ukraine, espec

alliance of defense industries.who will produce weapons for ukraine together with us, and also at the expense of russian assets, and when will it start. mass production, forced passporting, prison and torture, the hell of those ukrainians who have been living in occupation, let's show, they are a shield that covers our infantry from the sky, army aviation, how does it perform combat tasks and what are they? a year and a half ago, when the three days that were given to kyiv before it surrendered had already run out. who would have thought that very soon the first international forum of defense industries will be held in the ukrainian capital, which will gather 252 defense companies that produce a full range of weapons, defense systems and solutions from more than 20 countries of the world and from europe, america, asia and australia. yes, all of them, they are ready to help ukraine produce weapons and develop modern technologies in partnership in order to have a reliable defense against russia. aggression, what shoul

this is stated in the report of the us department of defense. since march 2022 , drones and components, small arms and spare parts, navigation equipment and protective equipment have been going to russia. china's unregulated commercial drone market has allowed the russians to make regular purchases, according to the pentagon. they have dual purpose aircraft. minus one plane from the russians, however, this time there were no ukrainian defenders. military transport plane il-76 caught fire at the airport of the capital of tajikistan, dushenbe. according to the propagandist media, one of the engines caught fire during takeoff, causing the plane to roll off the runway and later burn completely. there were eight russians on board the plane, all crew members, they were not injured. books and films for blind ukrainians adapted three films in five months in lviv, printed the same number of books in braille and created their audio versions. the project was implemented by the ukrainian association of the disabled together with the lviv polytechnic resourc

of defensive structures, structures of defensive structures, but in most cases they try to train themt the expense of these territorial defense teams, replenish their reserves, where, in particular, suffer as much as possible from our soldiers, including in zaporizhzhia direction, that is, the local population that they manage to mobilize, they still use more as a human reserve on the front line, well, obviously they do it by forcing people to take russian passports, no other way, as a rule, as a rule, really through forced passportization, but the people refuse, and the resilience of our people amazes the occupiers, even in the conditions of temporary occupation, sometimes they force them to transfer to the territorial defense units, even without obtaining forced passporting from the people, who remain ukrainians, but under the pressure of weapons and psychological pressure, they still join the territorial defense units. mrs. natalie, to what extent the enemy is experiencing a shortage of ammunition today due to the destruction of combat supply points. we are trying to inflict maximu

romanians in the format of their training center and with the help of air defense systems of variousdo not have that much potential for ammunition there, that is, these things actually reflect the general approaches of the nato countries regarding assistance to ukraine, when we talk about air defense, we understand that there is also a message from the united states and germany to increase this assistance to ukraine, but returning to romania and regarding the pilots themselves, i will say that not only romania, we know that both britain and the united states are training for f-16 aircraft, those for our air force representatives, and now the question is not so much, not only in training, in determining who will transfer these aircraft in the near future, what types of aircraft they will be and the preparation of our infrastructure, so it is a complex issue, where pilot training alone is only one of the important, but not the only indicators of use f-16 by our armed forces. mr. serhiy, yesterday we saw this wonderful video, which ukrainians can't help but like, even though the target

as for the defense forces, we have success in some areas. this promotion may vary. day - it can be two positions, 10-15 m, some day it can be up to 50. but moving forward. goes on, after the defense forces have knocked the enemy out of the replacement position, there is a delay for some time, because the enemy carries out reverse shock and shock actions and after the destruction of his shock and shock potential, until the moment when he did not start a reserve, the further advance continues, i must tell you that the enemy is resisting very , very, very much, the system of coercion in the russian occupation forces continues to work powerfully, it is meant that for those who are mobilized. and for representatives of private military companies, there is no way back for them, so they stand to the last, and the propaganda machine works in such a way that they will not find out why, because before are sent to the zone of hostilities, for a certain time they are in an information vacuum, that is why, in particular, our special services are actively engaged in distributing

the nato is defense ministers have been meeting in brussels today with israel's defense minister joining via video link secretary general against the start back said ministers sure is web of this. all the data t o i strongly condemn the most us in defensible attacks on civilians. on cold for the immediate through these so old hostages, our thoughts are with all those affected bodies, how do you take a tax? is on house, the right to defend itself and the conflict us the conflict on falls, the protection of civilians is essential aspects on cause i'm have continued israel saying is targeting, i'm us units that lead the deadly weekend attacks and preparing for a possible ground defense. but the effects of the bombardment happened devastating to the densely populated territory. as concerns of issue many terrier comprises that grow, agony fills the air. these people are desperately looking for survivors. while pulling bodies out of the rubble. stone has brought the side of new destruction to gaza with entire blocks raised by overnight strikes a man of the houses in my family. my neighbors and