national security spokesman john kirby says the private military group has about 50000 fights as a new grain. most of them drawn from prisons. we continue to assess that wagner currently has approximately 50000 personnel deployed to ukraine, including 10000 contractors and 40000 convicts. our information indicates the russian defense ministry has reservations, about wagner s recruitment methods. despite this, we assess that it is likely that wagner will continue to recruit right out or russian prisons due to recent events. we assessed that it is likely there are mounting tensions between russian officials and mister promotion. you re a secretary of defense, lloyd austin says washington is committed to supporting ukraine. defense ministers from 50 countries met in germany to coordinate military support for key if they promise more weapons. but germany has not made a decision about whether it will provide tanks. today s meeting focused on ukraine s needs for air defense and arm
when they re forcibly returned from it s leap. the testimony is a part of an al jazeera investigation in partnership with lighthouse reports of other media defense ministers from 50 countries, a meeting in germany to discuss the next steps in military support for ukraine. president vulnerable, zalinski is urging allies to send heavy weapons and battle tanks. steadfast reports from the ramstein air pace. a lot of these tanks are already sold to other countries in europe, but they are waiting for germany to give approval for exporting them. ascending to him to ukraine. so what could be in the works is possibly a compromise saying that these tanks that could come from other countries that germany would allow it. but maybe they are very hesitant still to st. their own lap or 2 tanks. basically at the german government and special specifically, a chancellor shaw says that he s worried about an escalation. if he would sandy s battle tanks out there was alley hush has the reaction f
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Plymouth-based MSubs to deliver a new extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle (XL-AUV) to support the Royal Navy (RN) to explore the utility of uncrewed submarines in the future underwater batt.
Japan has ordered two additional KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). According to Boeing, the order of these two additional KC-46As brings the total contract number to six. The US Department of Defense (DoD) .
Greece has shown interest in acquiring from the United Kingdom an undisclosed number of soon-to-be-retired Lockheed Martin C-130J/C-130J-30 Hercules airlifters. Greece is expected to acquire at least one surplus Hercules airlifter when the t.