Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
Alexey kvashenko found out how Remote Monitoring of pregnant women will work. The European Union lifted sanctions against yandex cofounder Arkady Voluzh, denis tolalayev talks about this. Hello, welcome to the Information Service of the ntv television company. This is the program today, its presenter is elmira effendieva and vladimir chernyshov. The most talked about news of the day in the world. Vladimir putin gave a big an interview lasting over an hour and a half and answered key questions that the difficult reality asks us from the Global Economy to the nuclear threat. In a conversation with the general director of the media group of russia today, dmitry kiselyov, the president touched upon. A topic that concerns almost all spheres of our life the development of russian regions, social policy, states, demography, one of the main topics was, of course, the ukrainian crisis, the brightest moments of the conversation in nikita korzuns report. Where is the money, zin, the first questio
A message about explosions appeared on the network. In kirovohrad oblast , air defense is working again. Earlier, it was reported about the launch of a group of attack drones in the direction of the southern regions from the chauda Training Ground in the occupied crimea. They may still be in the airspace of ukraine. Defense forces advance on melitopol direction and storm the enemys positions on bakhmudskyi. This was reported at the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in the evening briefing. In total, 45 collisions took place during the day, five of them on the almansky tavdiiv directions, eight on mariinsky. Ukrainian artillery made 13 strikes on areas where enemy personnel and weapons were concentrated. As a result , three depots of military equipment of the occupiers and 10 artillery pieces of the russians were destroyed. They discussed the needs, which i heard about yesterday from the soldiers in the kharkiv region, compared the dynamics of receipts of major calibers, gave