john hill, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense policy. joining him lieutenant general thomas james, the deputy commander of the u.s. space command. lieutenant general heath kohler, of the missile defense agency and sean gainey, commander of u.s. army space and missiles command. and meeting to review the fiscal year, and i have concerns, the overall level of funding is inadequate given the threat environment. the fiscal year 25 budget asks 10.4 billion dollars for the missile defense agency. that's more than $400 million less than last year. and almost a billion dollars below the level projected for fiscal year 25 and last year's. i want to reiterate this point, the fiscal year 25 budget request for the missile defense agency $960 million, almost a billion dollars below the level planned for in last year's budget. further, these draconian cuts are not limited to just fiscal year 25. the outyear projections in the budget continued reductions in missile defense spending, compared to the spending plan in the budget submitted last year, this b

john hilton deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense policy picture him where lieutenant general thomas james the deputy commander ofan the u. space command, lieutenant general keith construct of the missile defense agency, and lieutenant general john ganey, commander of u.s. army space and missile defense command. the subcommittee meets today to review the department's fiscal year 2025 budget request for missile defense capabilities. i have a number of concerns just write off the bat. first, the overall level of funding is an adequate given today's threat environment. 10.4 billion dollars for the missile defense agency. that's more than $400 million less than last year. and almost a billion dollars below the level projected for fiscal year 25 and last year's. i want to reiterate this point, the fiscal year 25 budget request for the missile defense agency $960 million, almost a billion dollars below the level planned for in last year's budget. further, these draconian cuts are not limited to just fiscal year 25. the outyear projections in the budget continued r

john hill, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense policy. joining him, we have lieutenant thomas james, deputy general of the u.s. space command. and lieutenant general sean gainey, the commander of u.s. army, space and missile defense command. the subcommittee meet today to review the year's budget request for missile defense capabilities. i have a number of concerns right off the bat here. first, the overall level of funning is inadequate given today's threat environment. the fiscal year 25 budget requests $10.4 billion for the missile defense agency. that is more than $400 million less than last year and almost a billion less than projected in last years. i want to reiterate this point. the fis equal year 25 budget request for the missile defense agency is $960 billion, almost a billion below the level planned for in last year's budget. puts, these draconian cuts are not limited to just fiscal year 25. the outyear spending projections including in this budget. compared to the spending plan and the budget submitted last year it forecasts c

>> the defense plan, filling the gaps, air defense. we have called air defense rotation model because different in nato we need to mobilize more sources into that. and, of course, ukraine and, of course, ukraine. >> can you say more? what would you like to see? >> invitation of course here. >> well, i have many more questions but look at the clock i think we've come to the end of our time. any brief thoughts you would like to leave with the audience? >> just to thank you, and thank united states for in historical terms for our nation. america and helping in our freedom fighting in every stages of her history was so crucial. and that's why if you ask lithuanians which country always was most closest in historical terms supporting our independence, they would say the united states. keep the bonds and we will be a safe western civilization together. >> thank you also to lithuania. as you know burden sharing is becoming a political issue in the united states so it is great to see allies like lithuania that are more than pulling their weigh

system and the defense system of poland, perhaps this can be another such step to make the air defense shield over our country more powerful, what do you think about such initiatives, decisions, proposals? the idea is certainly interesting, but i do not believe that nato will agree to such a move. because in fact, if we are talking about the use of polish patriot systems, directly from the territory of poland, then this will create a situation where in russia they will call what general mili, the former, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who is still being listened to , warned about very much, he said, at first the turn will not reach... a kinetic collision between the nato systems and the russian ones, here exactly this will happen, so to speak, a violation of this and this situation and de facto it will be considered that poland has entered the war, it would certainly be much better if there were quickly transferred, well, a certain number of patriot systems to the territory of ukraine and... then this would allow to avoid exactly such a threat to nato, although i say thi

in the last days of march, the enemy pushed our defenses even further half a kilometer and began to hang over ivanivskyi from the north, further complicating logistics to this village. so, obviously , in the near future, we will have to withdraw from these villages, and in april, a new, months-long and bloody battle will begin during the yar era. probably, preparing their departure, the armed forces of ukraine blew up the bridge from ivanovsky to the temporary yar. now the pressure on chasyk has dropped significantly, because as a result of previous assaults, the road to the city is littered with corpses and broken enemy armored vehicles. avdiiv bridgehead. the biggest advance of the enemy in march took place on avdiivsk direction, because after leaving the city, the armed forces had to leave the territory that was under the fire control of the zavdiivsk highlands and gain a foothold on new lines of defense. as part of this withdrawal , the armed forces of the russian federation. occupied various areas from 2 to 9 km of our donetsk region, in particular the villages of lastochkine, sever

this will make it possible to strengthen the overpowering one defense of klishchiivka. postavdiyiv front - crisis in ochereteny. occupy on the southern avdiiv front. suffered heavy losses and were unable to break further west after the may day occupation, and also rested on our defenses near yasnobrodivka and umanskyi and failed to force the durna river near orlivka, samenivka, and berdychiv, so they shifted their efforts to the northern flank. the offensive on novokalynovy ceramics stalled, but the enemy managed to break through in the direction of ocheretynnoy a week ago. also, in recent days, they have developed their own offensive and reached the center of this town, also expanded their wedge in the southwestern direction and entered novobakhmutivka and began to attack berdychi and others. from one flank. this advance of the russians on the commanding high ground, which extends through ocheretyn, is quite threatening for our defense of berdychiv, semenivka and umansky from the right flank and novokalynovy and ceramic and from the left. therefore, these days the figh

we were joined by a great team from ukraine led ministry of defense. i convened what would become the ukraine defense contact group for the first time in weinstein airbase exactly two years ago today, and some of you were there at that meeting. thanks to underscore the achievement of the contact group over the past two years, we were joined this morning virtually by president zelenskyy. at the first weinstein airbase -- ramstein meeting, ukraine's defenders had been at the russian army -- beaten back the russian army. ukraine has not fought back for 793 days. that is more than 2.5 times as long as the value of verdun during the first world war and more than the soviet union blockade of berlin during the cold war. ukraine is still in the fight and still showing incredible skill, courage, and resilience. and this coalition is still standing strong. over the past two years, this contact group has shown its unity, its impact, and its staying power. we have made history, and we have changed history. this contact group includes some 50 members of our allies

system and the defense system of poland, perhaps this could be another such step in order for the air defense shield over our country to be more more powerful, what do you think about such... initiatives, solutions, proposals, the idea is certainly interesting, but i do not believe that nato will agree to such a move, because in fact, if it is a question of using polish patriot systems, directly from the territory of poland, then this will create a situation where in russia they will call what general mili warned about. the former former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee, who is still listened to very strongly, he said, first of all , to prevent a kinetic collision of her nato systems and her russian ones, here exactly this will be, so to speak, a violation of this this this situation, and where as a matter of fact, poland will be considered to have entered the war, eh, for sure... it would be much better if they were quickly transferred well, a certain number of patriot systems on the territory of ukraine, and then it would allow to avoid exactly such a threat to nato,

ukraine's need for an increase in air defense equipment has become so obvious that, for example, the european parliament this week refused to vote on eu council budget issues until ukraine receives additional patriot systems, because the meps themselves believe that there are as many as 100 systems in europe. patriot and pass it is quite possible and quite logical for ukraine to have at least seven for the protection of our cities, but these are the words of politicians, and it does not actually mean that the governments of european countries are about to make a decision to share patriots with ukraine. so what is the reality and what can ukraine do to really strengthen its anti-aircraft capabilities both on the battlefield and in the sky. over our civilian cities in view of the russian threats, which still do not decrease. we will talk about this in the next edition of our military program "war and weapons". my name is serhiy sgurets, i am the director of the defense express information and consulting company, which now, together with the espresso channel, seeks to highlight the most

system and the system defense of poland, maybe it can be another such step in order for the air defense shield over our... ukraine to be more powerful, what do you think about such initiatives, decisions, proposals? the idea is certainly interesting, but i do not believe that nato will agree to such a move, because in fact, if it is about using polish patriot systems directly from the territory of poland, then this will create a situation when russia will be called. something that general milley, the former, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who is still listened to very strongly, warned about, he said, in the first turn to prevent a kinetic collision of nato systems and its russian ones, here exactly this will be a violation of this this this this situation, and de facto it will be considered that poland... has entered the war, it would probably be much better if would have been quickly transferred, well, a certain number of patriot systems to the territory of ukraine, and then this would have made it possible to avoid just such a threat to nato, although i am saying this f

the strategic defense initiative the defensive missiles was a radical fundamental change or nuclear defense a proposal to move from a policy mutually assured destruction which relies on the threat of the revenge killing of minna sent tons of innocent as a deterrent it always bothered raggett to a missile defense shield which relies on killing and coming nuclear weapons before they can kill anyone. morally the policy of a missile defense shield is vastly superior to mutually assured destruction swift advances in rocket and laser beam technology since we have been in our first efforts missile defense in the mid- 70s have tremendously increased the practicality of missile defense. he goes on the democrat dilemma is now the democrats to succeed politically u.s. missile defense system must fail. for if we do begin to deploy ineffective missile shield the democrats would have only two choices per they could either admit they were wrong but elated lee embraced the idea where they could persist in their opposition which would become more irrelevant with each passing day. either course is damaging p

, anti-aircraft defense, it is usually for... you do not win a war with defense, and we talked aboutth you today, about the need for increased pressure on the enemy's aviation facilities, increased pressure on the launch areas missiles carrying out terrorist attacks on our, thank you, we heard your thoughts, it was sergey grabskyi, a military expert, thank you. in just a few weeks, ukraine will receive the airisty air defense system from germany, and even more. there will be complexes delivered this year, this is the statement of helmut rauch, the head of the company deal defense, which manufactures these sams. today, together with the vice chancellor of germany, robert habyk, he visited kyiv. according to rauch, ukraine currently has three airist anti-aircraft missile systems in service. meanwhile , the foreign ministers of the g7 countries gathered in italy today, and the leaders of the 27 eu countries consulted in brussels for two days in a row. one of the topics. exchange provision of additional air defense systems for ukraine, what they have decided and where exactly they will l

it's also in circled with defense lines. local sources say the confidence that any surprise russian attack would no longer break through these fortifications. we start with the annual renewal. we have firing positions here, so the soldiers can observe on fire on the enemy. they going to see the next line of defense that's closer to the front line. there's a shelter for vehicles and the dog. oh, but the crew doesn't like it, but it's made of wood and reinforced concrete work continues around the clock. time is of the essence as a new russian offensive is expected soon. the soldiers occasions also being built in the neighboring tyranny, have region no file from the battery in buddha. in february 2022 russian troops passed through this area to march on key. if these structures and this dragon's t, that design to slow the progress of tungsten and vehicles, giving the ukraine, you know me more time to destroy them on to tongue that jews have been dug behind them on the area around his mind to the 2nd line of defense is less elabo

in defense of nature in the region. a high ranking military official was in the last few days in israel to discuss actually exactly, that's what happens if, how are we prepared? how can we help? how can the united states help israel in case you wrong? the strikes is real and that's the problem there. is if, if it, if it's all drones and nothing else and it is, as we also pointed out before, well publicized by you wrong, that's a sign. and the us took it that way, assigned that the wrong want is are all to know to be prepared that some retaliation comes now. and how far these very tight rope they are walking you wrong with adding more retaliation measures. so that's a problem, and that is what the u. s. is prepared for with military assets. when i say this, that means defensive financial. that doesn't mean us troops on the ground, no boots on the ground, the president was acting on this. so i would say intelligence rate up early detection and all of those kind of assets. let's walk back a little bit, steph, on and, and,

but by what airforce, we also have other defensive defense of platforms. all. what ad force is excellent on, on how you read them as to how we are using. we need to remember that defenses are not 100 percent effective. however, we need to follow the instructions by the domestic phone question, the ones that have been loans when aware of the sirens activated. i wouldn't report on launch drones. they take some time before they arrive to the in the aerospace so once they and thought i want to add a space, the sightings wouldn't be sits all 4 in the areas where they in total all water span. so, and we will publish some of the latest developments across all platforms. another question, why, why the plan? a value on a wing is on deployment. there are things on platforms that are deployed to defend as right. you. this includes such, it'll planes on other drumming devices on last month. now, i would love to go into details about all of randomness and the scenarios that we have. but it pad our duty is to defend the citizens of s, i. e everywhere and where to submitted.

system and the defense system of poland, maybe this can be another such step to make the air defense shield over our country more powerful, what do you think about such initiatives, decisions, proposals? the idea is certainly interesting, but i do not believe that nato will agree to such a move, because in fact, when it comes to the use of polish systems. directly from the territory of poland, then this will create a situation where in russia they will call what general mili, the former, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who is still listened to very strongly, warned about, he said, first of all, to prevent a kinetic clash of nato systems and russia. here exactly this will be, so to speak, a violation of this this this situation and de facto it will be considered that poland entered the war, it would probably be much it would be better if a certain number of patriot systems were quickly transferred to the territory of ukraine, and then this would allow us to avoid just such a threat to us. although i say this from the perspective of the general panorama of the war, it wou

february records for the destruction of russians, in particular , the defense forces eliminated 1,546 vehicles, which is 40% more than the february figures, which were also a record. to this it is worth adding 215 cars of special and unique equipment, which is also a record figure. in addition, the armed forces launched 976 artillery installations and 963 tactical- level drones. 53 destroyed air defense systems is the bronze figure for the entire period of a full-scale invasion. 376 tanks, 869 bmp, although not record numbers, are among the top five, as well as more than 28 thousand liquidated russians. against the background of a significant shortage of shells for the artillery of the armed forces, it was possible to achieve such impressive indicators thanks to a significant increase in strikes by kamika drones. military researchers counted 1,062 strikes by ukrainian drones in march against 652 russian ones. lyman direction. it was thanks to the eastern front that in march the armed forces of the russian federation managed to advance in most of the hot areas for the first time in man

russian anti-aircraft defenses were apparently operating in the kerch area.ch bridge was closed. explosions thundered in the temporary.

the air defense, we are surveying ukrainian air defenses. the huge amount that helps defend ukraine cities later on, it was placed on western air defense system but we don't have it in nato. with the northeastern flank. and we might have heard about that where we have -- flying through airspace taking a turn for a second time. in my opinion, russia deliberately testing reactions to recruit nationally and limited capabilities within, to put them on the ukraine border with missiles with air defense system. and how huge the gap is and how quickly we need to invest in it. it was working with the us, and on lower levels. so the way to counter such moves, to try to shoot down in the future russian missiles from the air. my fourth point, the discussions and leaked conversations from germany, representatives talking about long-range missiles being depleted, and the need for delivery, so definitely there's a need to invest in long-range strike capabilities, this, we have been talking about that, what is particularly interesting from the war in ukrain

a simple defense.an telegraphing that they will rely more heavily on these kind of factual defenses. and don't underestimate simplicity. it is an important tool and lens when you're dealing with a jury. in fact, trump defense attorney will scharf said they'd be doing this on the eve of the trial. >> we're focusing on the facts, because the facts show that president trump did absolutely nothing wrong. this is a business record case. those business records accurately reflected payments to one of president trump's lawyers as legal retainer fees. >> that's just a denial of the whole thing. trump's lawyers denying that trump had any tryst with stormy daniels, and that means whatever she might testify, even if, quote, salacious, they told the jury, it just does not matter. now the lawyers similarly deny that trump took any actions to try to pay her at the time and that he didn't lie about any payments that were made to her, whether on his behalf or by someone else. support that, of course, they got to deny t

there's limited defense. europeans are waking up to the demands of not only mobilizing for defense in the middle of germany but further east. the logistical challenge is so much greater. and for 30 years of cooperative security with russia meant that, in large, nato did not move western forces or if your structure eastward. there was nothing there except, of course, military forces of the new allies, limited as it was. all of that has to be invented. and there is very poor between convention today and nuclear deterrence. it is a weapon of last resort. it was much more integrated and thinking during the cold war, where you had, again, a theory of escalation that may have been imperfect and controversial, but at least it was a coherent theory. today, there is no theory, and they are having to reinvent that. all of that has to happen not only 32 allies but there is so much else going on in the alliance. there's the southern flank, which is about terrorism, and if anything has caused a headaches in nato in the 20

forces will hold defenses and hold defenses where they are held, and the main goal in the dynamic defensewell, you won't believe the emotions that every soldier, every officer has when he sees a gunner pilot a uav, when he sees a shell or an fpv, a drone or other high-precision weaponry or just weaponry destroys the melee even one or two of three occupiers, blows up equipment, destroys an enemy mortar or an enemy cannon, and again under these... conditions, i believe that the defense forces and my comrades grind the occupiers every day, on the lines where they are now standing , and, but in these conditions , the main priority is to save the life of every ukrainian soldier, really happy news, er, more precisely, motivating news for many soldiers, for many military about american help. for me, as an artilleryman, it is extremely important that these are ammunition for... artillery of various calibers, which will simply increase our firepower, in a certain way will be able to add pluses on the scales, in order to counteract the firepower and those tons, tens of tons, in general, the insane

air defense systems will be.ense ministers of nato countries agreed to strengthen and provide further military support to ukraine. approximately one in eight people in the world will participate in the vote. parliamentary elections are underway in india. why is it important for ukraine? about this and much more already at 9 p.m. on espresso.

defense secretary lloyd austin. there's been a close coordination between the american and the israelis anticipating this attack would take place. the intelligence was correct. we talk about the war that has unfolded over the past six months in israel there's been a lot of criticism about israeli intelligence and the american intelligence provided to the israelis they miss things when it comes to the attacks from hamas and islamic jihad. they are spot on with this anticipation was high it's part of the reason the israeli society did not have runs on the banks or grocery stores to a large extent paid right now things are calm and israel's major population center including jerusalem and tel aviv. while there are these instruction from israel's home from commandant for living and the northern and southern most part of the country they very simple instructions by their asking civilians to stay close to bomb shelters at this hour. understanding if these drones slip past the fighter jets and the air defense systems they c

ukraine's need to increase air defense resources has become so obvious that, for example, the europeanliament refused to vote on the budget this week. the question of the council of the eu, until ukraine receives additional patriot systems, because the meps themselves believe that there are as many as 100 patriot systems in europe, and it is quite possible and quite logical to transfer at least seven to ukraine for the protection of our cities, but these are the words of politicians, and this is in reality does not mean at all that the governments of european countries about to make a decision to share. with ukraine, so what is the reality and what can ukraine do to really strengthen its anti-aircraft capabilities both on the battlefield and in the skies above our civilian cities in view of the russian threats, which are still not decreasing, we will talk about this in the next edition of our military program "war and weapons". my name is serhii zgurets, i am the director of the information and consulting company defense express, which is now jointly with... espresso strives to highlig

the trypilska tes, which was destroyed the day before due to the russian attack, without proper air defense. what's next, how the destruction of the thermal power plant will affect the lives of ukrainians and whether it is worth preparing for blackouts in the fall and winter. there is a strengthening of control of those who evade, this is one of... which president zelensky said, commenting on the changes to mobilization. in broadcast let's analyze the main points of the draft law adopted by the parliament, which is waiting for zelensky's signature. each of your likes and comments gives this video an opportunity to become popular on the network, so subscribe to radio liberty's youtube channel. forced evacuation of families with children was announced in part of the kharkiv region. we are talking about 47 settlements in bogodukhivsk and ... koma and kharkiv districts. this was announced by the head of the kharkiv regional military administration, oleg synigubov. he says that according to ova, he lives in these settlements 182 children. the routes for their evacuation have already been determi

if you were on this defense team, if in charge of coming up with a defense for mr. trump, here's a part of the prosecution case that would seem to be the most difficult thing to explain logically. if you are really going to mount a defense of trump did nothing wrong, there was no conspiracy to corrupt the election as the prosecution but it at the top of their opening statements today, this would seem the toughest thing logically that you are up against. this is from the opening statement from prosecutor colangelo. , quote, sorry, it's not quoting it. at this point, colangelo explained there is what he called a criminal conspiracy between trump and ami to pull the desktop published positive story negative stories about his rivals. define negative stories they had not been's -- yet and to pay to make them shut up and not tell anybody about the stories before the election. the prosecution has explained to the jury that ami, that they first found a doorman, a doorman named dino who said that trump had fathered a secret child with a housekeeper. the first one that ami pa

comrade minister of defense.doubt about the need to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of our state. but at the same time, during the discussion of issues at the above-mentioned platforms, the most discussed issue was precisely. please comment on how this circumstance is reflected in the new military doctrine, thank you, thank you. refused to place nuclear weapons on our territory and withdrew them, for this we were promised respect for sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, non-use of military force and economic pressure. all this was recorded in the budapest memorandum in december 1994. well, what we see today is that everything is broken. aggressive policy unfriendly states, economic, political, sanctions pressure, of course, in such conditions we had to react, at the request of the president, we carried out work to place non-strategic nuclear weapons on our territory, this is our effective response to the aggressive... policies of those unfriendly to us states, we hope that the leader

third khordad defense system. some time after the explosion, the global hawk's carcass is taken out of the water. this carcass will be placed in a place for people and officials to visit. in the published pictures of the remains of this plane, one picture attracts the most comments. this photo is a sar radar image. the most important part of the global hawk aircraft. it is a sar radar that sends high-resolution, high-quality images for command and control. iran has achieved this technology at its highest level. three years. before this incident , he had unveiled the absar radar here in kish, iran. but having an american radar can bring the iranians to a complete knowledge of the opponent from the technological knowledge of the americans. the american head also works in the most stormy weather on earth. now iran is the only country that has this radar. bismillah rahman raheem, the radar that works here in the hands of the army commander is the radar that saw the global hawk. this radar is called saman. in the elect

the best best defense here, it's air defense, air defense systems, unfortunately, we have, well , the president, the prime minister, and all of us are talking about this, that we need additional support. in the form of air defense, so that we can protect large objects, because large objects that occupy a huge area there, it is difficult, difficult to cover them with some kind of physical protection so that they are inaccessible to a large number of missiles there, which fly to the same object at the same time, then i have a counter-question and the last one, head of the supervisory board of the energy center andriy gota said that in view of the constant... security, constant shelling, restoration of theses without providing ukraine with anti-aircraft systems - this is a futile matter, do you agree with this? we will restore what can be restored, especially now in the short term, what can work already. of course, i agree that we need additional air defense systems, this will significantly increase our resistance to strikes, to attacks. russians and will help preserve our energy facilit

the minister of defense of ukraine joined us, panumerov and general sirskyi.t to say that according to the results of our meeting, the first meeting of which was held here at this air base two years ago, and many of us were present then. and to emphasize this historic, historic achievement of the contact group over these two years, the president of ukraine joined us online today. so, ukrainian defenders have been repelling russian invaders for two years. and we see that they manage to restrain russian aggression for 793 days. that is, we know that there were no such long wars in the world wars long battles, for example, when we talk about the soviet blockade of berlin during the cold war. ukraine continues to fight, continues to demonstrate extraordinary training, bravery and resilience. this coalition, it continues to hold the line. over the past two years, this contact group has demonstrated its unity, its influence, and its power. we make history and we changed history. this contact group includes 50, more than 50 members from all over the world, and we are

and on missiles for our existing sky defense systems. germany's leadership really is felt, and with such leadership we will be able to save thousands of lives. and we will be able to give ukraine more protection from russian aggression. a restaurant filled with customers caught fire in lviv. emergency personnel rescued 74 visitors and five workers. the fire destroyed the ventilation hood and paneled ceilings. there are no casualties, the regional emergency service reported. loud again in russia, she allegedly worked there. pppo in the ministry of defense of the aggressors state that they shot down 10 drones over the krasnodar region of the russian federation. air force commander mykola olyschuk thanked the pilots for their excellent work and returned to the base for the effective strike on the enemy object in the luhansk region. the armed forces confirmed a successful attack on russians in occupied luhansk. our military hit the command post of the center of the russian army group. reported in the strategic communications center of the ar

german, after all, she is the leader of the coalition directly and... which she adds must get air defense to ukraine, she immediately said that it will not be easy, it will be some rather difficult ways with the search for some combinations, well again, berlin has experience when they assembled one battery of patriots for two with the netherlands, the netherlands handed over, by the way, two launchers, the other one was given by germany, and even then there may be such a situation that it will have to be taken from somewhere, someone will give one launcher , someone will give a communication car, for example, one too, somewhere someone there will hand over a radar station, for example, somehow it will be restored, someone there it, because it is precisely the radar station that is the main core of the complex, without it it is, well, let's say this, it is a separate conversation , but we believe that it cannot work without it, and all this is additional, in fact, in addition to the direct question of where to get the patriot batteries themselves, uh, well, here and there, by the way, it s

it wasn't just is really a defenses. the managed to shoot, but actually all of those projects alls down it was also allies and for the united states and other western countries, but also jordan, this a neighboring country of israel, of course, and to georgia.

air defenses? >> i think as your military experts said earlier, i'm deeply concerned about the targets. this is not a targeted strike. so this is a disproportionate response. so if you are launching hundreds of drones, you are not just targeting government officials. so in the event these get through the defense systems which obviously israel has sophisticated systems in the united states. there are strikes from iran that then hit israel proper. and, attack civilians, i'm deeply concerned about israel obviously responding to make sure that no additional ballistic missiles or cruise missiles could be launched. and then, yes, of course, that could drag the united states. and let's not forget that israel has been dealing with hezbollah for months now. hundreds of rockets from hezbollah. the united states had to strike back to take away some of their capability. so some of this has been going on behind the scenes. it has not come to the forefront. but now, obviously, you know, us this is what we hoped

>> the defense plan, filling the gaps, air defense. we have called air defense rotation model because different in nato we need to mobilize more sources into that. and, of course, ukraine and, of course, ukraine. >> can you say more? of the course ukraine. what would you like to see? >> invitation, of course here. >> are great. well, i have many more questions but look at the clock i think we've come to the end of our time. any brief thoughts you would like to leave with the audience? >> just to thank you, and thank united states for in historical terms for our nation. america and helping in our freedom fighting in every stages of her history was so crucial. and that's why if you ask lithuanians which country always was most closest in historical terms supported our independence, stated is the united states. that's why that the women's circuit transatlantic and we will be safe together. thank you. >> wonderful. thanks also to lithuania. as you know burden sharing is becoming a political issue in the united united statesh great to see a

air defense is one. deliver system, working together with partner to try to get more to ukraine. >> idol, ambassador kim, tom, use scorning all this? >> yeah, i can start. trudy, good to see you. i think it's a great question. i think before you get to the their defense, i will just say what we been seen publicly over the last few weeks, of which is we are worried about ukraine's situation. you know, the fact the supplemental took you know, the fact that the supplemental took so long. thankfully, it came through and that's a great sort of achievement for everyone. it's absolute critical to ukraine's success, but the problems that existed a few weeks ago will not be solved overnight. i mean, it takes as we rush the stuffed ukraine, it will take time for it to be absorbed, for it to be used, and for ukraine to strengthen its defense against these russian attacks. and so as a come up to nato summit, i think the overall message is one of absolute unity and strength and support for ukraine. but, unfortunately

this was stated by the spokesman of the ministry of defense.ccording to him, the work of ukrainian recruitment centers abroad is unreal, so after the new law on mobilization comes into force, men of draft age who are outside ukraine will have 60 days to update their military registration data, from june it will be possible to keep data online through electronic office. detained for a bribe in dnipropetrovsk. the chairman of the district court and his mediator were exposed, the national police reported this. the official promised the suspect in the criminal case to remove the seizure from the property, instead he demanded $25. in the course of the investigation , it was documented that the persons involved received funds, after receiving which the judge made an illegal decision in favor of the person. during the search of... the places of residence and work of the persons involved, the law enforcement officers seized funds that were received as illegal benefits. now the issue of reporting the suspicion to the head of one of the district judges a

that is the john edwards defense.n't just some personal thing, this is about the campaign. the fact of what he does afterwards. apparently, david is going to say into that and 17, he meets with donald trump, who thanks him for helping him win the campaign and win the election. >> that is all in the opening statement today. >> there is no concern about this becoming public because melania trump is going to know about it. one of the, if this is proved up, is a claim that donald trump said can we just put off the payments until after the election? if i win, we don't have to pay. if i lose, we don't have to pay. i'm not thinking about melania trump, i'm thinking i may not have to pay this money at all and i'm cheap and that doesn't work. they are insisting the money get paid now. that is why the scheme had to happen on october 26th, when essential consulting is created by michael cohen. >> i want to hear you both on more legal reaction to todd blanche on two levels. one, todd blanche asserting that there was no sexual enc

there's limited defense. europeans are waking up to the demands of not only mobilizing for defense in the middle of germany, but further east. the logistical challenge is so much greater and the 30 years of cooperative security with russia meant that in large, nato did not move western forces or military infrastructure eastward. there was nothing there, exis september the-- of course, the military forces of the new allies, limited as it was, all of that has to be invented. and there's a very poor connection between conventional defense today and nuclear deterrence. it was a weapon of last resort and strategic thinking during the cold war where you had, again, a theory of escalation that may have been imperfect and controversial, but at least, it was a coherent theory. today, there is really no theory and they're having to invent that as we heard ambassador smith say in slightly different words. all of this has to happen in an alliance that's more complex, not only 32 allies, but there's so much else going on

as for other cities, they have an even more or less strong air defense system. air defense systems, kharkovfense installations left, the west is not eager to supply the kiev khunti with more air defense installations, because our aerospace forces find them, destroy them, in the west they understand that soon in principle, they themselves have nothing will remain, and kiev... will deny supplies, as they said today in the bundestag, there are not enough patriots themselves, and the americans spoke out even more clearly. the other day they announced the sale of air defense-related equipment to ukraine, not just launchers or radars, but repair kits for obsolete hawk systems. evgeny tishkavets and open. now a short advertisement is what will happen next on our broadcast. you will have to answer for your sick hatred of russia. criminal cases of zygorirenka agents. has their pro-western attitude really worn off? pen for which post marshenkulova's term is shining.

these stayed with a whole lot at defense reserve is to mind the defense raise. they also started jamming a gps around the country. and that jamming has been on and off since then causing some disruption for people trying to navigate the way around with, with that phones all signed have equipment. and of course, uh consumers and ends. the embassies around the wells were put on high low because that was the other fed, not just that is around like the attacks from the to the country itself. but that israel side facilities around the world might be vulnerable to sites embassies and concepts put on, put on hot, but now we understand that that'd be more precautions taken since then. we have planes up in the sky and these are out of thing working very closely with the united states. we had a high profile visits to israel in the last few days. the general who heads up the us central commodity, was it basically coordinating all of the sickles intelligence uh, the united states force pulse jack in the region. how it might help israel, both the tax and rep how or shoot dow