Mykola solsky. According to the investigation, the participants of the scheme appropriated more than 2,500 hectares of agricultural plots in sumy oblast in 20172021. They planned to appropriate more than 3 thousand for 190 million hryvnias, but the Law Enforcement officers prevented them. The people involved were searched and the plots were seized. Suspicions were handed to all of them. And operational information from the regions two dead and one wounded, due to enemy attacks in donetsk region. During the day, the occupiers shelled one and a half dozen settlements in the region, he said head of the region vadym filashkin. In krasnohorivka, an artillery attack killed a woman, damaged private houses. Another person was killed by muscovites in the village of novooleksandrivka, grodov community. In addition, the invaders hit with antiaircraft missiles. S300 on selidovo. They injured a civilian there and damaged four apartment buildings and an educational institution. At the same time , mo
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process taking place, and you wonder about the support that government has realtive to not being confirmed in the way that it normally would. I have a tremendous respect for president began ghann and a warm relationship with abdullah. Theyre have muddled through it together as one might expect with the type of arrangements that have been, quote, create from the outside. I was glad to see president obama com
Had their first president ial eselection the institutions being build in afghanistan are institutions even now nice santa institutions now. I talk about the state of play in the United States when our nation was 14 years old. We had not dreamed of giving women the right to vote and we have Serious Problems with collecting revenue and dealing with debt. Im very close if the work of the mec. Five ministries signed up in an agreement with Evaluation Committee they will examine their own ministries and publicly air what is found in in those examinations examinations publicly address what anied to do. The when we are were working with the hope to help them provide resources to develop the electric grids we identified 56 very specific victories to corruption in utills structure. Now, again, each utility was created in 2009 basically from scratch. The first 0 years required significant federal subsidies from the government of afghan. Its now in the black. They defense all 56 or whatever the s
Threat to projects and Homeland Security counterterrorism program. He will be speaking on treasuries war, the unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. One final reminder. When this panel concludes we have to clear the room just like we did yesterday so the hotel can set up for lunch about 50 minutes and then well come back in and start our lunch program. Gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this morning, mary derosa, distinguished visitor from georgetown law. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everybody. Im very excited to be here as we have a really terrific panel. We are here to talk about cybersecurity, and how we address these significant and growing threat from criminals, hackers, terrorists, anarchists, and other nations who are spying on us, stealing from us, intruding, disrupting and potentially attacking our private sector government infrastructure. I dont feel like i have to say very much about the threat, gives a lot of background, particularly in this crowd