, but he still spoke with him, and this was reported in his statement by the spokesman of e- john kirby austin of the pentagon called for an immediate ceasefire in ukraine and emphasized the importance of maintaining the line of communication, but what exactly it was about was not disclosed, because they said that it should remain behind closed doors. is there still room for negotiations? with such people, if it is, the united states and russia can negotiate, because they have not declared war on each other or a special military operation, the truth is that's why they say there is no doubt here - it's one or two times. the united states is not interested in the disintegration of russia, they are, according to mr. biden, interested in strategic friends of russia, but this does not mean that they are interested in its disintegration , because the disintegration of russia can lead to the fact that its fragments will strengthen china, and for the united states this scenario, well, i would say extremely dramatic that's why we have what we have. and i wouldn't react jealously to this conversation be

the exception of the fact that a readout of the call from pentagon press secretary john kirby says that secretary austinrged a cease-fire. he urged the russians to engage in a cease-fire in ukraine. and he talked about the importance of ongoing conversations between the two. that's one of the things that the pentagon is really hoping to get out of this a. a senior defense official said, we didn't have any big changes, with the exception that now we hope we have a foot in the door, the russians will continue to take these calls going forward. one thing we'll all be watching in the coming days is whether that foot in the door opens the possibility for chairman of the joint chiefs, chairman general mark milley, to speak to his russian counterpart, general gerasimov. before the invasion, those two men spoke on a relatively frequent basis. they were known to have a pretty open conversation, line of communication. since the invasion, general milley has reached out to him a number of times, according to defense officials, and his counterpart has not responded. one of the other big questions, though, is general

may be held in an online format , pentagon spokesman john kirby reported this, and the press secretary also noted that us defense minister lloyd austin intends to hold such meetings are held every month . i will remind you that the previous meeting of representatives of the defense departments of 40 countries took place at the american ramstein air base in germany. it was attended not only by eu and nato countries, but also by african countries. the middle east, the persian gulf, asia, and the pacific region, the main goal of this powerful international coalition is not simply to restrain the military aggression of the kremlin, but to defeat russian tyranny and ensure victory in the war against putin's russia. due to repeated shelling of the civilian infrastructure of the city of orihiv in zaporozhye, one person was killed and eight others were injured in total they were taken to the hospital in the regional center , shelling continues and in kharkiv oblast, 10 people were wounded, one person died, as reported by the head of the kharkiv oblast military administration oleg blue lips are in danger not only from enemy shelling, because

. >> john kirby and his boss, the secretary of defense lloyd austin, have talked about this subject extensively. what do you think the military can do to try to kick that stigma? >> well, i think it's going to be a collection of things, and more than likely, it's going to be some of these smaller things. it's not the big things. it's the smaller steps that we need to take. it's things like a six-month waiting time to get a mental health appointment. there is a natural conflict between department of defense values, warrior culture values, and when people -- when people demonstrate normal human vulnerability, and it feels like a failure in that context. you know, if you look at dod values, they reinforce the idea of selfless sacrifice, personal courage, and then when soldiers have emotional challenges that are normal emotional challenges, it really raises concerns that somehow they're not meeting the standard, they're not meeting the mark, and then if you have to wait six months to get assistance, it reinforces that idea. so it's going to be the smaller things that we need to take -- we really ne

initiative of the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, and representatives of more than 40 countries of the world will take part in it. pentagon spokesman john kirby said the topic is the defense of ukraine and the purpose of today's meeting is to coordinate efforts for further defense assistance to ukraine. the actual list of participants is not fully known, but we remember that the previous meeting took place on 26 on april 1 in germany at the american airbase rammstein, today's meeting will be held online and, according to the results of the meeting of the first april, the us secretary of defense said that germany will send to ukraine 50 cheetah anti-aircraft systems, canada eight armored vehicles and great britain additional anti-aircraft systems. in principle, further principles of the functioning of these monthly meetings for defense assistance to ukraine were established, their periodicity is yes, and actually, the fact that these meetings are regular, that the initiative is working, but what specifically to expect from rammstein this time, i ask mr. ivan, i only personally assume that there are some important details, there were no public