Representatives for a district that is larger than the state of illinois. We need to continue to work to provide services to folks who do not happen to live any place close to where there is a v. A. Hospital. Over the course of my time in congress, working with the department of Veterans Affairs, we have had Outpatient Clinics that has helped. If you lived four or five hours from a v. A. Hospital, how do you get there, particularly if you are 92yearold world war ii veteran . If you are 92 when you live 2. 5 hours from the Outpatient Clinic, it doesnt make that much difference that you are two hours closer to a facility if you cannot get there nyway. One of the things i am pleased about and the legislation that is pending that i hope the Conference Committee reaches a result when we come back and vote about it, the idea if you live long distances from ava facility that the v. A. Will provide care for you. The v. A. Today has the ability to do that. They have the ability to pay for outsi
When Russian forces withdrew from the town of Balakliia in eastern Ukraine in late 2022, pursued by Ukrainian troops and under artillery fire, they left a poorly equipped group of volunteers to guard their retreat. The force of around 50 men came from the National Army Combat Reserve - known by its Russian acronym BARS - a loose assembly of units totaling several thousand fighters that Russia's defense ministry has deployed in Ukraine to supplement its regular forces. About four hours of footage from a bodycam worn by one of the fighters, obtained by Reuters, provides a rare first-hand view of the combat operations of a BARS unit, according to three military experts who reviewed the video to provide an assessment for the news agency of the unit's military capability.