mrs. wagner: mr. speaker, on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings of this question will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from missouri seek recognition? mrs. wagner: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 406. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 406. a bill to provide for the treatment of the association of southeast asian nations as an international organization for purposes of the international organization's immunities act -- organizations' immunities act and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from missouri ks mrs. wagner, -- missouri, mrs. wagner, and the ge th

mr. wagner. i'm speaking close enough. a couple of brief words before i turn it over to michelle.ll, on the commission know the topic of contract monitoring has been a consistent conversation and i think it always will be because we're constantly evolving. and it's a big, it's a lot of territory when you start talking about all the aspects of how we work with and monitor our vendors. we're not going to hit all of that today but we want to start. those of you on the finance and planning committee know that a months ago, we had a long in depth conversation that was prompted by the issues at baker prc but also a lot of the other organizations that we work with that had been going through challenging times, pandemic and the overall environment. and so, this is in some ways a follow up to that conversation. we took a lot of the thoughts and things that we've talked about there and had been trying to feed it into the department's work on how we relate to our vendors. i will say that there is, there are a lot of challenges but i actually feel like we're at a moment where we have a lot of

of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. wagner, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1159, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: h.r. 1159, a bill to amend the taiwan assurance act of 2020 to require periodic reviews and updated reports related -- the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the clerk: relating to the department of state's taiwan guidelines. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 404, the nays are 7. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed. and without objection, t

and mr prigozhin and wagner group got everything that they need for now.sful military division and they are fighting bravely in bakhmut and other territories. and they should get everything that they need. we are a big country. and we of course in a huge war with nato and other countries right now. if i may... we last spoke in september. you assured me then that russia was winning the war and was going to win the war. here we are in march of 2023, you have not even yet taken bakhmut. and the losses incurred by the russian military are staggering. tens of thousands of soldiers have either lost their lives or been taken out of action with wounds in that fight for bakhmut over many months. and you still have not taken the city. can you honestly sit here today, so many months after we last spoke and say that you are still confident russia is winning this war? i am strongly sure that we are going to win this war, of course. you left us no other chances. we must win because it... why do you think mr prigozhin in just the last couple of days has been extremely pe

us, let's continue to analyze the situation on the front, the leader of the fighters of the pvk wagner, mrhin, complained to the minister of defense of russia about the upcoming counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine in a letter to shoigu. communications deputy chief of the general staff of ukraine and the armed forces of ukraine from 2006 to 2010 candidate of military sciences and mountains romanenko joins good morning mr. igor thank you for joining so what do you think er, is there any greater subtext in this well, i will call it hysteria of beauty, does it contain any greater subtext than worries about the fact that we can go on a counteroffensive, or can you see any other political subtext in this story, definitely taking into account the way in which he performed -e prigozhyn at the front in the area of ​​solidar in the area of ​​bakhmut, we see that in addition to military tasks and actions, the leadership of all eh and he defends his interests, first of all, his military-political interests, as well as the grouping to which military-political group he belongs, that is, wher

and mr prigozhin and wagner group get everything that you need for now. and they are fighting briefly in ukraine —— briefly. and they should get everything that they need —— bravely. and we of course in a huge war with nato and other countries are now. if huge war with nato and other countries are now. 111 huge war with nato and other countries are now.— huge war with nato and other countries are now. ifi may. we last spoke _ countries are now. ifi may. we last spoke in — countries are now. ifi may. we last spoke in september- countries are now. ifi may. we last spoke in september you i last spoke in september you assured me then that russia was winning the war and wasn't going to win the war. here we are in march of 2023, you have not even yet taken bakhmut. and losses are staggering. tens of thousands of soldiers have either lost their lives or been taken out of action with wounds in that fight for a bakhmut over many months. and you still have not taken the city. can you honestly sit here today, so many moments after we last spoke and said that you are

this by his valor and the skill of the armed forces of ukraine, which actually destroyed wagner's group. well, mrlly also noted on the air of one of the tv channels why processed bachmut remains a priority for the defense forces of ukraine. and also moral, because the so-called second army of the world cannot take the district center, this is a very powerful informational and psychological factor on their commanders and servicemen who they understand that they are simply incompetently commanded, and he describes the current situation of the bakhmuts roughly like this: the enemy is trying to carry out offensive actions on kupyansk in the limansk and bakhmut directions bakhmut , the main place of his attack only for this day in the area of ​​the zaliznyany-rekhovo vasilivka , the oak-vasilovka, the bakhmut of the ivaniv enemy itself tries to carry out assault actions carries out 188 shellings with barrel and rocket artillery 57 trains are blocked in this direction in kyiv 30% of consumers remain without heating this is reported kyiv city military administration, but there is no disconnection of the

mr. colonel, when will everyone come, this animal is so fluffy, and not only for wagner and the russians.e for the russian army, eh, chvk wagner in pursuit of sensations, pursuit of zapredelyonnymi relations, eh , he advanced far away, eh, to the north of bakhmut , that is, they are trying to surround bakhmut, and the garrison themselves fall into it, they can be surrounded , this predicts clearly -е treuzhen naturally есть he has already started saying this on the air, this is already eh, these are already words , such desperation, i understand my strictness, any attack, and indeed , he has bare flanks, he also has flanks in the region of the breakthrough in the north - bahmuta bare left and right and general flanks on the offensive that is, if you read from bakhmut to solidar, it is possible to practically from the right flank from the north-west, our salient is a bridgehead in the belourovka area, which , if a certain connection is sent there, can become a bridgehead for offensive actions and uh, cut off from the pasnyan grouping of this solidar bakhmut popasnyan arm , wagner, complete

mr. colonel, when will this animal come to everyone so fluffy and not only for wagner and for the russiansg will it take for the russians to understand that bakhmut is a big grave for the russian army eh, chvk wagner in pursuit of sensations, pursuit of zapredelyonnymi relations eh, it's very far выдвинулся eh, north of bakhmut, that is, they are trying to surround bakhmut and the garrison themselves, they can fall into the encirclement, it is unambiguously predicted, eh, it is dull , of course, he has already started saying this on the air, this is already eh, these are already words, such desperation , i understand my desperation any offensive and indeed it has bare flanks and flanks in the region of the breakthrough to the north - bakhmut is roaring and the left and common flanks for the offensive. flank from the north-west, our salient is a bridgehead in the area of ​​belourovka, which, if certain reinforcements are sent there, can become a bridgehead for n- carrying out offensive actions and e-e cutting off the pasnyan grouping of this solidar bakhmut popasnyan grouping chvk wagner fu

the founder of russia's wagner mercenary groups is his fighters of newly surrounded the eastern ukrainian city of back. moot, he appeared in a video urging president, florida mr. lensky to pull his troops out of the area. local residents have also started to leave their homes ahead of a possible russian advance. this city and its defenders have endured some of the most brutal fighting of the war. but after 6 months under constant attack, ukraine's hold on buck mote appears to be slipping. for both sides, the cost in both lives and ammunition has been enormous. but now the commander of russia's mercenary wagner, group claims the city is almost completely surrounded. a wagner group units have effectively encircled buck mute. there is only one road left out. all the pins is a closing room, while most roads in and out of but most have been cut off, making it difficult for ukraine to resupply its forces. those that remain open are under constant fire from russian artillery. as russia closes in their affairs, that ukraine's forces may become unable to retreat. throughout it all, medics continued to ferry the wounded, away from the besieged city. those injured on th

mr. ivan, for your sharp edge, john excuse me, he assumes that the overall goal of wagner's command centerhe russian occupation forces in bakhmut was, well, in fact , the exhaustion of the defense forces of ukraine to a certain extent. we are entering a phase when the spring offensive is somewhat postponed, they write something like this but at the same time, if uh well, i don’t know how to try to compare the real losses and the level of this exhaustion and exhaustion, then can we say that bakhmut became for the russian occupying forces well, i don't know of a bigger trap than what they tried to set up for our defenders with him. so i'll tell you without too much bravado , he bravadod in the style of an arresting officer. of the russian military, constant attention, constant concentration, a large number of ammunition, people who have already been lost, the main thing is that the russians have wasted time, and at this time, what did our military, our political leadership manage to win, tanks are already coming to us armored vehicles we received we received a large western coalition, that i

mr . gosh, of which the day before exclaimed on telegram that the detained journalist and catherine both studied the attitude in society towards wagner. pmc group. i'd find this rather strange, but it would give the the, the background to why perhaps he was investigating what the f s d have said. russia's defense industries. so of course, this gentleman was dealing with very sensitive topics. it appears center saying how quickly pounced on this and it did jump to, but we're not hearing much from the us. how do you think, in your opinion, how our, how would the west and the u. s. and less than power react to this? i would expect a lot of spin on it and down playing his role and why he was there. it's also worth noting, i believe he also wrote for the new york times, many of the publications since the moscow times are not usually sympathetic towards russia. his previous article, the last article that i saw, he wrote, he claims that russia's economy was collapsing. so i think we can get an idea of sort of the theme and the attitude of this individual towards the russian federation. are they like, do you think like they'll see that? i me

in the assault, the wagners are already passing there and they are left to hold this defense , namely, with assault actions, this is already professional military work. thank you, mrandriy andriy babichev, youtube, a serviceman of the 93rd brigade, kholodny yar, was in touch with us. well, different assessments of the situation in bakhmut are obvious. thank you mr. andriy , i would like to quote the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, a fragment of his interview in the usa and tedpress, he is convinced that the armed forces will not win if the armed forces do not win the battle for bakhmut on ukraine will be under pressure to find unacceptable compromises and with the russian aggressor, if he is the president of the aggressor country, vladimir putin will feel some blood, he will feel that we are weak, he will press press press according to the words of the president, if bakhmut falls, putin will sell the victory of the west to his chinese and iranian society, the president emphasized that in the event of a defeat in the city of bakhmut, ukrainian society would feel it and push for a compromise, but at the moment he does not feel such pressure, just yesterday

mr. kravchuk not remember i think that not very willingly, actually, the residents of the occupied territory almost do not go to the ranks of the russian armed forces or the wagner, so they try to force it, please, really. and today there were such videos on the internet about these huge, unfortunately, this is not the first time at all everywhere when the rashists came to the occupied territories, of course they roll everything back , they form queues. in general , they also have forced passporting, that is , all the benefits of civilization that were available to melitopol people before. to the internet , russian terrorists. they demand that people have russian passports, and about forced mobilization. buses drive up and knock people down, there is no such thing, they are still grabbing people with buses to issue russian passports. but this kind of recruitment continues. they try to lure our people with promises of high salaries and even they create some kind of voluntary group there, but our people do not want to go because we really we differ from the russians , we understand that, first of all, you don't need to believe the russians, and secondly, our man w

wagner. yes, we know. kadyrov was there somewhere, and others were there. they are forming their own, so to speak, party for the 24th elections. thank you, mr.h, an analyst, a journalist, and he joined us. - well, it’s a scary story, of course, about prisoners, which means we just have to do it, they already did it to someone who was you in the 15th or 16th century with the poles to cooperate, find and make some kind of normal putin double, this putin double holds a press conference and says that he was kidnapped by the fsb and staged a coup to take another one the good putin. who else do you know? shevchenko quoted and said that we need to be friends with democracy. such a touch of classic operations understood such a double and said he will say i am the real putin. ato in general. what kind of doubles are here, whose russian oligarchs set up and then we declare war together with poland and plant our putin on their throne or cool, the latest information about putin from germany. the minister of justice of this country, marko bushman, announced that he will fulfill the order of the president of russia, putin, if he steps on german soil. acco

mr. army general well, first of all, we have a strategic initiative today related to the fact that the enemy is losing the main professional unit , this is, accordingly, under the command of wagnerhe distance, the assault brigades and the marines, this is the elite of the russian army, and i take the glove, they are standing here aggressively and the action on territory of our state , but today we have just the prospect of their destruction by war this is an extremely important situation and gives extremely powerful prospects, but we have for this today both the reserves and the armed forces of ukraine, respectively, and our special forces have been prepared and the troops have been trained, which today will use the latest force, and i, first of all, and the weapons equipment that i received. caravans of weapons are coming every day, which give the prospect of rearming our special forces, namely, rapid treatment brigades and breakthrough brigades, and give precisely the opportunity to prepare for larger-scale offensive operations. today , the number one task is as usual, the general staff and the commander, just in accordance with the syrian direction, that today the question is

mr. yaroslav lysenko, tell me that thing about the fact that all this time there, the russians actively used such tactics of stormtroopers and that the main force of these stormtroopers were the wagners uncontrollable who they use there now because we see constant problems with prigozhin who says that they don't have enough there and don't give him the opportunity to recruit and well, it's like some other forces have already been attracted there in exactly the direction of bakhmut , who can to say so is already the forces of the regular army, once again prigozhyn asked them to be involved to cover some flanks, what happened there now, what changes have taken place in these two weeks. look, i heard a similar question three months, four months and two months ago do they use wagner? how professional are they? well, so that you understand from the name, paratroopers or some kind of separate regiment, there are stripes and so on. well, it doesn't change anything, because we understand that it's all, well , just a legend of the soviet union, that they are some kind of paratroopers, some kind of super-strong ones. and so on, we see that their desantura has been unable to do anything for man

mr. vladislav, you said a little about these the so-called chmobyks, meanwhile, according to our general staff , the russians sent a whole trainload of russian prisoners to the occupied part of donetsk region, so wagnerruit such people, and we all know this pvk which they have the attitude of the ukrainian military towards them and to what extent are such people generally motivated to fight, if not, then it is better for us but nevertheless, what is happening there in general, and the following is happening there after they closed the oxygen for recruiters from the private military company wagner to this recruiters from the armed forces of the russian federation took up the work of correctional institutions on the territory of the russian federation , they are now implementing the same tactics of recruiting and actually coercing russian prisoners in order for them to replenish the same battle formations of the russian units that are currently storming our defensive positions, including on the eastern flank of the russian-ukrainian front, due to the fact that about 400,000 people are arriving in russian correctional institutions, that is , accordingly, the potential of the same, shall we say, human ca

mrs. al jazeera were life and also coming up another wave of mystery gas poisonings across iran puts hundreds more. school girls in hospital intense street fighting the besieged, ukrainian city of buck moved as rushes, wagner mercenary groups as a devastated city, surrounded and protested, returned to the streets. and israel is thousands call from end to the government's plans to limit the supreme court's powers. ah! the head of the united nations nuclear watchdog has announced one inspection that the rounds order nuclear plant and the installation of new monitoring equipment at the facility raffo grossi held talks with president abraham racy in terren. nick toxic has more in an i. e, a quarterly report late last week. the nuclear watchdog said his inspectors had found particles, the uranium in iran and rich to near weapons grade. returning from a visit to terran, the organizations chief said that did not mean iran was actually producing such material. there has not been production or accumulation of uranium at that level, which is a very high level of course, sixty's already very high. but as i said, we had and we ways and means to inspect it. weapons grade, uranium is enriched and 90 percent. iran said t

decorated with flowers sit beneath the wagner flag in a village east of crimea, looking from above you can see just how many more graves appeared in recent months. mrsto the seventh year monday recorded this video. the woman speaking over it says very big cemetery or graves are fresh , not an end in sight. young and of all ages. meanwhile western made tanks promised ukraine have started to arrive in the country coming from the u. s. u k germany and portugal. ukraine's defense minister, thank the country's allies in a facebook post writing quote this new equipment will keep good company with its brothers on the battlefield soon, thanks to our military its benefits will be felt by the russian occupiers. cnn salma abdelaziz joins us now for more on this. we know that the leopard tanks, i think around 18 and the challenger tanks are arriving or have arrived. what impact can this make on the battlefield in the immediate term, so we have tanks arriving from the uk from portugal from germany from the united states. so far, it's still small handful, just a fraction of what ukraine is expecting and what ukraine has asked for, but it comes at a very critical

mr. president, in bakhmut, which is hell on earth right now, ukrainians are faced with human wave assaults from the wagner case of the ukrainian army, do you worry about other areas near bakhmut being left untended completely to defend or fight the russians in other areas? >> everybody should understand that now bakhmut is the most concentrated point on the ukraine. and they understand that wagner group criminals is military. and they have nothing to do. we protect in our own way. we have a very high motivation, who is a hero fighting for their soil, foigting for their family, for their children, for their parents and many, many others. and with that situation, we have figures that russia paid five or seven times more than ukraine. but i cannot say it like that because only during the last month, i lost in bakhmut area. s at leasten seven of my close friends. and this is just a demonstration of the price ukraine pay for this aggression. this is the argument that we are here protecting not only ukraine, we are here protecting the free and democrat you can world. and umbrella of armed forces providing the s