Jens stolten. Stoltenberg has already announced that ukraine is closer to nato than ever before, and the nato secretary general announced that the alliance is increasing production of ammunition both for ourselves and for ukraine, lets hear a fragment of stoltengs speech. Today i can confirm that nato has framework contracts for major munitions worth 2. 4 billion euros, including a guarantee. Order for 1 billion euros. It will include 155 mm artillery shells, antitank guided missiles and ammunition for main battle tanks. This will help allies replenish their supplies while continuing to support ukraine. Mr. Valentin, what is radically changing in this rhetoric and in the intentions of the North Atlantic Alliance with in particular, after the visit of three highranking officials who solve many issues within the North Atlantic Alliance. Well, you and i understand that it is no coincidence that the secretary general of nato, jen stontelberg, and the defense ministers of two key nato countries, Great Britain and france, were in kyiv on the same day and at the same time. I will tell you that working with these delegations, of france and britain, i understand that now. The defense ministers of these countries, on the instructions of the Prime Ministers and the president of france, have also brought their chiefs of staff, and it is also very important for our armed forces that the chiefs of staff, i. E. Specialist military personnel, our specialist partners worked today , including with the head of our general staff, with the commanderinchief general zaluzhny, at the political level, the ministers of defense met with the president of ukraine zelskyi. All this together means the first thing the 23rd year is ending, and for the 24th year, we and our partners, the armed forces of ukraine and the armed forces of nato member countries, have specific plans for cooperation, points of this cooperation, the first is the training of our military personnel in nato member countries, and these are thousands and thousands of tens of thousands of our defenders who will undergo training next year as well. Training and receiving uniforms and weapons after such training. The second item is ammunition, said mr. Serhiy, i confirm that such a budget exists in the European Union, and orders from nato and nato member countries for the armed forces of ukraine. The nato caliber, the caliber is different, and for howitzers, and for mortars, and for Armored Vehicles that were supplied, and continue to be supplied to the country. We are nato members. Third, the third item is the launch of the annual program of adaptation of ukraine, the ministry of defense, primarily of ukraine to na standards. This program is being launched right now and over the next year for our department of defense, there will be a lot of very specific work for the secretary of defense to align with nato warfighting and other standards, departmental standards. Ukrainian armed forces and all combat units. Here are three key directions from ukraine nato today in kyiv. Yesterday, mr. Valentin, it became known about the appointment of three new ones Deputy Defense minister of ukraine, new minister rustem umerov. Who was appointed, yuriy dzhigera, is the former deputy minister of finance of ukraine natalia kalmykova, the head of the ukrainian veterans fund, ekaterina chornogorenko, in our country. Deputy minister of defense of ukraine for digital development, digital transformations and digitalization, in your opinion, how is the current team and how different will it be. From the previous one, because the previous Deputy Ministers of defense of ukraine were mostly public figures and quite wellknown people in ukraine, about these people, what can be said, how do you evaluate this personnel potential of rustem umerov, i think that during the war we should all wish that those people who are appointed today by the cabinet of ministers, i. E. The government, on the positions of the first three Deputy Ministers of defense were effective and efficient, for whom, and for the armed forces of ukraine, the ministry of defense is the key central body of the executive power in ukraine to ensure the ukrainian army, in order for the ukrainian victory to be faster, as to provide the key areas of work of the ministry of defense weapons, the second the rear, rear support, without the rear, no army fights, and the rear must be dealt with, and the third, i have already called it nato, nato, the ministry of defense will now have a lot of work, in addition to war , and in addition, in order for those trainings, those weapons, and aid, including financial, to be used by us at the same time so that the Ukrainian Armed forces are fully compatible with the armed forces of nato member countries, so that we are sufficiently were able to quickly become a country, a member of nato and to become under. The security and protection umbrella of this entire international alliance, this international militarypolitical Organization Called nato. I will tell you sergey that these are the first, as i understand it, three deputies, and the most key appointments should take place, in my opinion, the day before yesterday, because it is precisely the Deputy Ministers of the minister of defense for armaments, and supply, and repair, and use, and licensing and so on. This is a key direction. The second, deputy minister, key, i have already spoken about it, rear, rear support, medicine, tactical, and not only tactical, but also for our defenders who were wounded, and during hostilities closer to the front line, it is really necessary not just to improve the situation, but to create efficient and modern hospitals, hospitals for our defenders, that is why these two deputies, and are key, i really sincerely urge the government not to delay and to appoint specialist, combat officers and generals to such positions, because in such positions, for example, the deputy minister, if you ask me for armaments, for weapons, should have not only military, but and militarytechnical education, moreover, also be fluent in english and know the weapons of nato member countries, simply put, if abrams are delivered now, then for the new deputy minister of defense, who will be appointed, this Armored Vehicle should not just be in pictures, but familiar as is repaired, how it is used and how it is more effective, to transfer and use in the armed forces of ukraine during the counteroffensive and in the east and in the south, so the next assignments, i think, will be even more important, and the last one about the ministry of defense, the Digital Direction is really very is important, but i want to explain to our tv viewers that it is not only and not so much electronic registers or document flow, although this is also important in the ministry itself, no, it is much more important now that the ministry of defense of ukraine sets out to create an effective, modern digital sky, a digital dryer and in principle, the digital picture of the protection of the Ukrainian Land , the digital picture of the battle for the armed forces of ukraine, and what is important is that this digital sky, digital front, digital, digital support of the armed forces of ukraine are according to standards nato there are already such developments in the nato member countries, and it is time for the ministry of defense of ukraine to really seriously deal with this , because, for example, air defense, against the shahed, against terrorist russian missiles, without the digital sky we will no longer be able to move, we will not be able to use more modern radars, modern systems of Early Warning and detection of terrorist russian missiles, and whats more, this digital sky is necessary, right for the f16s, which we are convinced will be on combat duty in the coming months for the ukrainian the sky mr. Valentin, you have already mentioned the american abrams tanks, this week the first batch has already arrived, at First Washington promised 31 units of these and then there was information that there could be 30 more, but, the former special representative and envoy to the commander of the armed forces forces of ukraine valery. Dear dan rice, this is the president of the American University in kyiv, he says in an interview with newsweek that the americans are about to give us attacks with a cluster warhead, and he said that this week it could happen, so far there are no official reports, in your opinion, what is stopping the americans from handing over these very necessary weapons in the Current Conditions for ukraine. We all expected, and i also worked for the atakams, a ballistic army missile , to be transferred to the armed forces of ukraine by our American Partners, even before or during the visit of the president of ukraine to washington, United States of america. This did not happen, because there is no final decision of the us president. Whats next . Further, now, i think, such a pause will be caused, including internal political issues in the United States of america itself to congress. The usa, as we know it, is currently considering a very difficult issue, regarding the restoration of the budget and the new budget after october 1, there are not easy battles going on, but in this new budget, in this new budget resolution, us President Biden has laid down 24 billion dollars to support the ukrainian of the armed forces , humanitarian aid and budget aid , that is, aid to ukraine, and i think that including it depends on how quickly and how the United States, congress will deal with it question, and they will approve a new budget resolution, new funding, and i repeat, we have a direct interest in this happening, because 24 billion, including, i think, may then include ballistic, serious missiles for the armed forces of ukraine, what kind of tricks they will fight. And how to use them, i think, here it is not necessary to ask nvik, but the diligent commanderinchief of our general staff, who, i confirm, directly work with American Partners, military specialists, those more pentagon like you know, he sends not only auditors, but also serious advisers, technical assistance, serious experts, military personnel who work with our specialists of the armed forces of ukraine 24 7 , that is, around the clock in all matters related to the supply, repair, and use of modern weapons and equipment that our partners give us, the same will happen with ballistic missiles. Despite the absence of atakams, we can see how ukraine has been quite successfully fighting military targets over the past few weeks russian occupiers in the annexed crimea, we see that the headquarters of the black sea fleet of the Russian Federation has been destroyed, the pppo system has also been partially destroyed. We see strikes on command posts and military airfields located on the Crimean Peninsula. In your opinion, when will the moment come when the russians will simply flee from the Crimean Peninsula and possibly even towards turkey into the black sea, as more than one army has fled. During different wars . I think two things are lacking in our armed forces forces the first are longrange missiles and concreteblasting missiles, such as the german taurus and the american atakams, which you and i just talked about on the air, and the second are fighters, modern f16 fighter aircraft, but with modern radars, with a modern digital sky. About which i have already spoken, and for our ministry of defense of ukraine, this is a very urgent task and it is important that such a Software Product appears, as soon as these two things are received, the armed forces of ukraine, our general staff, then we will really have not just an even balance, but a weapon for the liberation of the temporarily occupied crimea, the south and east of ukraine, this week the Defense Forces of ukraine attacked the headquarters of the black sea fleet of the Russian Federation, 34 officers were killed, according to the ukrainian side, they talked about the death of the commander of the black sea fleet fleet of the Russian Federation sokolov, however, russian propaganda spreads the topic that sokolov is alive, he is regularly shown on propaganda tv channels, a little earlier it was about the fact that maybe not Ramzan Kadyrov is already alive, because he had some health problems, and the fact that these problems were with health was also said by the secretary of the nsdc Oleksiy Danilov and the head of the gur of the ministry of defense of ukraine, general budanov, today, after already how sokolov was scrolled on all tv channels, and it is not clear what quality this video is and when it was filmed, today kadyrov was already shown at a meeting with putin, where the leader of chechnya swore to the master of the kremlin that he would be with putin until the end, and he said about, tanks, abrams, for some reason he was talking, but it is obviously about abra. Lets take a look at this fragment, because it is very revealing, it boasts that it is both a humanitarian direction and a military one, that your detachment is showing good results there, every day they take french troops, every day they destroy equipment, no one calls it home, whatever it is, i think that we. Well, at least someone cheered putin up, you see, he smiled as much as you, as a specialist in security and special operations, as, as you assess, the information component of the Defense Forces of ukraine now, because i understand that we all after all, we are talking about information as well an important component that is now being quite actively implemented by the sbu, sso, and gur. Firstly, the component, secondly, we really have specialists, i myself, when i left the service, we recruited such young people in counterintelligence, in cyber defense, and thank god, they are working now, fighting, defending the country, including both in cyberspace and in the information space, which concerns the use of information and propaganda in general during the war, it is very important for us not only to have these specialists, but also to have a budget for such departments that can and must lead informational counterpropaganda, and it is very important that our special services and military intelligence, and Counter Intelligence of the sbu, and other Ukrainian Special services have at their disposal the means that would allow and disseminate information, would prove true information about the successes of the armed forces of ukraine, and in ukrainian , in english and other languages , it is extremely important, i watched cnn while preparing for the broadcast, in fact there are not many materials in english and from ukraine, because we are concentrated, i think, well, everyone should take us and understand our videos, no, this is not enough, i think that, including , taking into account how we work with nato, how we work with the European Union, it is very important for us for our specialists to allocate a budget for foreign broadcasting as well. And on proving true information about the crimes committed by the aggressor, about crimes against humanity, about the real successes of the armed forces on the battlefield and in ukrainian and other languages of the un, this, i think, is the component that is now very important for our armed forces, well we have inomovlenya, or there was inomovlenya, then it became a tv channel house, and there the broadcast came, im not talking about that, it s completely different, mr. Serhiy, and it. Has nothing to do with the professional, security and defense needs of ukraine. You mean that it should be a special structure of some kind, which will be formed by specialists of the appropriate, specialty, level, we have specialists, i only spoke about the budget primarily because the army radio, Army Television and army press centers , not only one or two speakers, with all due respect to these ladies who do important and difficult work, you can also it is necessary to use it more widely and have an Extensive Network in ukraine, in the modern world of digital media, and not only to convey the truth, to convey true information , well, lets be more specific, well, we all know, ukrainians, we are informing that there are currently hearings about genocide in gaza , where russia used the convention between. People against genocide as a specter for the invasion and the unleashing of a fullscale war against us in february of last year, but it is important for us in this connection that both before and during the meeting of this Un International court informational materials, testimony of victims of russian aggression, children and so on, including in english and french , that is, the languages of this Un International court, this is one of the reasons why it is so important, mr. Valentin, another important statement was made today by the president kazakhstan, tokayev, who was in met with olaf scholz. He said that kazakhstan supports western sanctions against the Russian Federation imposed because of its invasion of ukraine. And germany should not be afraid that astana will try to help moscow bypass them. During the year and a half of the great war, there was a lot of information in the mass media about the fact that, including through kazakhstan, some components were sent to the Russian Federation. Since russia is not supplied directly, and iran was named, and kazakhst