Missiles for haim. And shells for artillery, highprecision aviation ammunition, means of electronic warfare, antitank weapons and other equipment. The representative of the Us National Security council, john kirby, emphasized the importance of continuous support to ukraine. We believe that this is absolutely necessary. You have heard me say before that time is not our friend, that we continue to do everything we can to help ukraine succeed on the battlefield and regain more of its own territories. The military assistance we announced today is another important signal of our continued commitment to support of the ukrainian people, the funding that Congress Approved during the Previous Fiscal Year is used, in accordance with the program of president ial powers , of course we will continue to provide ukraine with the necessary weapons and equipment, but it is extremely important that Congress Honors its obligations to the people of ukraine and provides additional funding , we are conducting active conversations with members of congress this new aid package was announced at the next meeting of the defense of Ukraine Group in the ramstein format, which took place today in brussels, we will talk about its results with our european correspondent, bohdan tsyupan, who is working on the spot today. Bohdan, i congratulate you, so you carefully followed the statements made today in belgium, what were the highlights of this meeting, so, in your opinion, they seemed the most important today . Ostape, today at the headquarters of nato, i would say that the word winter was heard most often, and about the need to prepare for winter in a state of war or war in a winter state, about the need to protect the ukrainian infrastructure, which obviously, russia will try to strike again, as russia did last winter in order to make life more difficult for the ukrainians, many times i heard the word ammunition, everyone was talking about it, while nato leaders, in particular, the secretary general of nato, emphasized because the support for ukraine does not decrease, that countries, in particular nato countries, continue to keep their promises to help ukraine as much as necessary and with what they can, even in spite of russias threats, how to use winter as a weapon, cold as a weapon, yes and even despite nuclear blackmail, as jens stolten mentioned today. Putin is trying to use nuclear blackmail for intimidation and coercion. Hes trying to use this Nuclear Rhetoric to prevent nato allies from supporting ukraine, but hes failing because, again, its in our security interests that ukraine wins, so were going to continue to support ukraine, and were not going to let the president putin to blackmail nato allies with his Nuclear Rhetoric. Bohdan, today in brussels there was not only a meeting in the format armenstein, as well as the meeting of the nato council of ukraine. Volodymyr zelensky also arrived there unannounced today, did his presence help to convince the allies to move forward in making the necessary decisions for ukraine. Well, actually, just a few minutes ago, the ukrainian minister of defense, who was supposed to be here himself, leading the delegation at the ministerial meeting , rustem umeru, told journalists that the actual presence of the ukrainian president raised the level of what was being discussed here. Language, for example, he said that some countries. Some of ukraines partners promised something that ukraine did not expect, what exactly he , he did not explain, but he insisted that ukraine is ready. To fight and continue throughout the winter, it is only about longterm, but about the guarantee of longterm support, and obviously the possibility of ukrainian for the president to be here, to talk directly with the representatives of the partner countries, was very important, and in fact, lets not forget that there are so many dramatic things happening in the world right now, such political changes taking place both in europe and in the United States, how to raise the level of the meeting as much as possible, to attract as much attention as possible to ukrainian affairs, obviously, this is the main task of ukrainian representatives and politicians, of course, bohdane knows that these changes that we are seeing now and finally, in the middle east, the aggravation and uncertainty in the us congress, whether this can have such an effect on the pace and volume of support from western countries, i know that this issue, among others, was also discussed today. Well , it is obvious that everything is determined by who could predict that such a huge conflict will break out, between israel and hamas, that the middle east, israel will be in flames, who could have predicted that in europe, there is widespread support for ukraine also among the american people, because ukraine is important, and we they talked over and over again about why ukraine is important, its not only about ukraine, its about the international order, of course. Not on the rules, regarding our ability to support efforts in both ukraine and israel, certainly we can do both and we will, we are the strongest country in the world, so we will do whatever is necessary to help our allies and partners, and we will also do whatever is necessary to make sure that we are able to protect our own interests and our own country. Such assurances, in particular from the american secretary of defense, were heard here in brussels. We also heard. Some details of further cooperation, in particular longterm defense assistance to ukraine, for example , it was learned about such coalitions in specialties, that is, we actually have more than 30 nato states, each of which is different in size, different in capabilities, armies, for example, are different in terms of capabilities, and they have the opportunity to split, lets say, today we were talking about the socalled aviation coalition, the f16 coalition , where the leadership is led by the netherlands, denmark, with the participation, obviously, of the United States, when it comes to american aircraft, about the tank coalition, we already hear less now, but here we heard about the coalition in information technologies, about the mine clearance coalition, etc. These statements are important, bohdan, thank you for your work, Bohdan Tsyupin was in touch with us from. Natos apartment in brussels. The meeting in the ramstein format was attended for the first time by the new head of the us armed forces, general Charles Brown, who replaced mark milley in this position. Brown is the most africanamerican and aviation representative in his position for the past 20 years. Whether it will bring changes to the security decisions of the usa, in particular regarding air assistance to ukraine, the opinions of experts were collected by maria prus. Appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States, do solemnly swear to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of america, against all its enemies, external and internal. F16 pilot and instructor with nearly 3,000 flight hours, commander of us military aviation in europe, south asia, and the pacific region, and for the past two years , commander of all us air forces. For the past 18 years, general Charles Brown has been an aviator who has headed the joint chiefs of staff, i. E. All branches of the us military, army, navy, marines, air force, and space forces. Retired u. S. Air force lt. Gen. David deptula, dean of the institute for research of aerospace forces, says that while the air force will not expect favoritism from brown, he will bring a greater understanding of importance to the position. This is extremely important now because the threat to the United States will most likely come from china, and the Pacific Ocean is a huge theater or area of action, and the fastest and most effective way to overcome what is often called the tyranny of distance is through air and space power. In the matter of ukraine, the ministry of defense concentrated on assistance on land, our minister, the army general. They are wonderful people but they do not understand the weight of air power as general brown does. I hope he will provide informed advice to the president of the United States that. Regarding the value and potential of the air force for ukraine. Deptula also expects reforms in the armed forces from the 61yearold commander. When general brown led the us air force, his key message was get stronger, change or lose. I think he will maintain this approach as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He will advocate for changes in the structure of the committee, the outdated processes that are followed there and future planning. Brown watched russias invasion of ukraine in 2014 from the ramstein base in germany, as he was in charge of the us air force in europe at the time. In july of this year, during a Senate Confirmation hearing on his confirmation as head of the us military, brown was asked what lessons he had learned from the russian war in ukraine. Strategically, i think its how valuable information is before the campaign starts, before the conflict starts, and also. How was it able to bring together not only nato, but also unite allies and partners around the world . I would also drew attention to the importance of logistics. I think that as far as the duration of hostilities, the conflict, we understand that sometimes it lasts longer than we can expect, and that is also a challenge. And i would also like to single out the will to fight and the determination of the ukrainian people and their leaders. Its something thats hard to measure before. A conflict starts, and it pays huge dividends. And the last thing i said, from a pilots point of view, is the importance of air power, and weve seen what each side has been able to do or failed to do, but weve also seen the value of air defense, innovative air defense, and how it helped the ukrainians to protect their people. General brown, like general deptula and other aviators, have long advocated the provision of fourthgeneration fighter jets to ukraine, but the Us Marine Corps colonel. Rates, css think tank mark kensien says he doesnt expect that policy to change drastically with browns passage. I think that in this situation, the ability of the United States and its allies to build up the forces of the Ukrainian Air force during the war is very important limited there are plans for maybe 24 aircraft after the war, maybe more capabilities, and thats probably where general brown will be able to have more influence, maybe hell be able to accelerate. Plans to train ukrainian f16 pilots and transfer aircraft. He may want to be more assertive about the us commitment to the f16, but i dont expect a radical change of heart. I think that during the war, the public imagination was always captured by certain weapons. In the early stages it was the javelin, later it was the hymars, after that the patriot, and then the tanks. After providing of each of these weapons, people hoped that it would bring victory, not a single one. Weapons will not bring victory, the cumulative effect of weapons will bring victory. Kensen explains that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is an adviser to the president and the us defense secretary. He does not make decisions regarding aid to ukraine. Instead, he reports that it is the American Army that can provide kyiv. A big problem was the fact that stocks of certain key weapons and ammunition were simply not large enough. The United States is ramping up production, again brown will participate in these discussions. Everything mostly depends on the white house. He will be at the center of discussions about what the United States can provide from its stockpiles and will make decisions about what risks the United States is willing to take to provide weapons and equipment to ukraine. Colonel kensian believes that the change in the leadership of the American Armed forces took place at a crucial moment in russias war in ukraine, but perhaps the biggest challenge. For brown regarding the continuation of aid to ukraine, as well as for the leadership of the pentagon and administration of biden, there may be a political confrontation in washington. I expect the current over 24 billion aid package for ukraine, which the Administration Proposed back in august, to be approved, although there will be some debate. The difficult question will be in january, when the amount of assistance for the whole year will be proposed. I think most of the changes we will see in the issue of aid to ukraine. Will be determined by politics. Although the joint chiefs of staff and its chairman serve as the chief military adviser to the president , they have no leadership powers and do not command combat operations of the us armed forces. Maria prus, dmytro savchuk, voice of america. These are the opinions of experts about the new head of the armed forces of the United States. But american missiles for hymers installations will soon be able to have twice the size. In the company, one of the engineers of the martin company, which is currently working on such a development, said this in a comment to the voice of america. Lougheed martin is one of the 700 gun manufacturers who presented. At the Largest Military exhibition in north america, aussa. These days, the exposition continues in washington. A significant number of manufacturers already have their products in ukraine, and some plan to strengthen their cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense sector. Like the companies that make kamikaze drones and reconnaissance drones. We have recently increased production of hymars to 96 such systems per year, and for salvo missiles, production has increased from 10 to 14,000 per year. I am talking to companies in ukraine on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles about a joint production partnership. We are not against helping in manufacturing and their drones, in the near future i will return to ukraine to continue negotiations. To a large extent , further military support for ukraine also depends on the us congress, in particular, on who will be the speaker of the house of representatives. Today , republicans nominated congressman Steve Scalise for the position. However, this is only the beginning of the process of electing a new speaker. Lets talk about what to expect next with our Congress Correspondent kateryna lisinova. Katya, i congratulate you. Congratulations ostap. Katya, tell us in more detail what the next procedure will be and whether we can say that there is already a crisis in congress. Overcome, it was a closed Republican Caucus in which Steve Scalise defeated his opponent , jim jordan, who is actually the last, is actually the favorite of the farright republicans. According to the American Media, stivskalis won by a small margin, with 113 republicans voting for him, 99 against and nine more republicans abstaining. Let me remind you that Kevin Mccarthy, when he was nominated for this position won by a much larger margin of 188 votes to 31 and even with such a large margin it took a long time to appoint him to this position 15 rounds of voting for his position even though during the nomination Kevin Mccarthy won by a much larger margin by a margin as for the next steps, after the nomination , the actual nominees, the candidates for voting in the house of representatives should be brought forward, so that both the democrats and the republic can vote. But when exactly this will happen is currently unknown, because, according to the American Media, some legislators, some republicans say that they will not support Steve Scalise for the nomination of the speaker, in particular , the farright republican Marjorie Taylor green said this, and as you know, Steve Scalise needs every republican vote to win this position, because the republicans now have a very small advantage of the majority in the house of representatives, and the democrats actually will not vote for the republicans, because they are their own candidate, this is the leader democrats in the house of representatives hakeem jeffries. But no matter who we appoint as speaker, he will exist in conditions where there is an amendment that allows a single legislator to put the speakers dismissal to a vote. This is how Kevin Mccarthy was fired. And medgates, a farright republican who actually initiated the dismissal of the previous speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, said that in order to remove this amendment, those legislators who want to do it should contact him and offer something in return. I will note that a proposal to remove that amendment in a secret ballot among republicans today failed. I propose to listen to the rightwing republicans own position on ukraine, which blocks the removal of this amendment right now. It is not me who is trying to repeal the amendment to dismiss the speaker. So maybe people who want to change this rule should think about what they want to propose. Me to support it, and ive said what i want, i want rohans reforms in place, which prohibits members of congress from trading stocks that prevent them from becoming lobbyists or registered foreign agents that limit the ability to buy members of congress. Indeed, it seems that even despite this nomination within the party , it is still unclear whether he will be able to get the votes of his fellow Party Members in the final