in recent years, information has appeared about the participation of the wagner air force in armed conflictsis time, russia did not recognize the connection with the wagner air force. utkin is under us and eu sanctions, but he goes to official receptions with putin and will receive state awards, but the pvc is controlled by a person who is even more familiar with the russian president, businessman yevgeny prigozhin. called putin's cook due to the fact that his companies provide food for the first persons of the state, for years prigozhyn denied his connection with the wagner pvk and only in september 2022 admitted that he personally created the armed formation precisely to participate in the war in donbas, initially a full-scale invasion of russia in in ukraine, the fighters of the wagner pvk do not hide their active participation in the war and publish videos from the front line, according to ukrainian intelligence, now about 8,000 wagnerites are fighting in ukraine, most of whom are former prisoners yevgeny prigozhin personally travels to russian colonies and invites to join the ranks of t

alex wagner, the assistant secretary for the united states air force for man power and reserve affairs. in this role, he provides overall -- for matters related to the air forces man power, military, and civilian personnel and reserve components. mr. wagner has also previously served in multiple civilian roles at the defense department, including as former chief of staff to the secretary of the army. mr. constable -- could you please rise so that we can swear un? and could you please all raise your right hand? do you swear or affirm that the testimony i am about to give is the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth? know that the witnesses have all answered in the affirmative. you may be seated. without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. with that, mr. constable, you are now recognized for an oral summation of your testimony. >> good morning, chairman lynch, ranking member grossman, madam chairwoman -- thank you for the opportunity to testify today to discuss the junior reserve officers training program that are known as jrotc. -- every officer h

wagner in your testimony about the air force when i require jrotc instructors to pass the same check until april april 2023. light is come mr. wagner ways the air force just been pursuing this requirement? >> congresswoman, thank you for your question. i just want to emphasize that we are looking our best practices from some of the policies and procedures the army has put into place. we are aggressively moving forward to implement that check. that check is on top of a 20 year history for all military retirees, that in order to be certified as eligible instructors is a part of our review. we also are making changes immediately to address some of the vetting issues that you articulated. one of which is we have noticed a gap with new school administrators who are not familiar with our memorandum of agreement. and so what we've done is we will be providing information to all new school administrators about the terms of what the air force's obligations are as well as what the schools obligations are. we're expanding the training module on line and virtual that our instructors are required

now, artyomovsk or bakhmud, the city is actively stormed by the detachments of the dude wagner, as the air force reports, the enemy is suffering significant losses. watch this video shot. one of the western mercenaries wounded in dryers is delivered to the hospital by ambulance flights of steel, and now the chamber is regularly overcrowded. but it's better than hiding from russian artillery, flooded trenches. the rapper reports that putin is using the autumn thaw. now as a weapon too. well, while general frost is waiting in the wings. the colonel is active in the positions. apparently dirt, he turns the trench into an impenetrable swamp, which they try in vain to drain with buckets, so the chief propagandist of cnn match was convinced, to whom the commander of the ukrainian militants admitted that the russians were superior both in numbers and skills. the loss is now colossal, but there are not enough supplies, especially western ones. and in such conditions, the battle for bakhmud. don't win. the strategic city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine, which soldiers on the ground describe as the most dif

wagner , this is bakhmut and ugle, ugledar, these are their points of such attention . these units of the air forcet attention further and it is there that we have to think accordingly. well, how to counter this, because there then you need to have some kind of counter-counter-strategy , well, viktor, what do you think about this? well, it seems to me, first of all, that they saved only for that reason that these are the only ones who remained more or less combat-capable in them, well, the artillery, for obvious reasons, because valeria is generally the main force of this e-e, can we expect their movement on the uglendarnoye, and optically we can, but here we need to know a more in-depth situation directly in the russian troops than we now know the internal situation , including the issue of command, because so far we mostly see that the same people who are now trying to gain political weight in the russian federation are playing the first violin in the same directions. i mean the wagnerites and the kadirites that's why we say viktor viktor i say this from the point of view of the fact that the sor