![]() I would - you know, certainly, you all are tracking the missile strikes outside of Kyiv over the week and I know you're strike - you're tracking the missile strikes down in Odesa, even in the midst of the - you know, the attempt by the world to get grain moving. Like, I don't have a significantly large kind of a set of initial comments. Happy to be back with you on day 156 of Russia's illegal and unprovoked large scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, today, I don't have a security assistance announcement for you but I can say that we're working very hard and consulting closely with our Ukrainian Ministry of Defense counterparts and we will be preparing another assistance package soon to ensure that the Ukrainians have the munitions they need for their fight in the east and now also in the south.Īnd with that, I'll turn it over to. ![]() So I'll conclude by, you know, highlighting that even as Russia is talking a big talk, even as Russia is menacing the Ukrainian population, the Ukrainians continue to bravely advance, they're making tremendous use of the $8.2 billion in equipment we've provided thus far. The National Intelligence Council released a chilling report that described at least 18 so-called filtration camps, where Ukrainians are subject to inhumane conditions, including abuse, and in some cases, executions. We also saw former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev post a map on his Telegram channel depicting a Ukraine that has been swallowed up by Russia and its neighbors, leaving only a sliver of the country in Kyiv Oblast.Īnd even as we have heard this really imperialist rhetoric, we've learned more about how Russia is (inaudible) in the areas of Ukraine that it occupies. įirst observation is that, although we continue to see Russia failing - failing on the battlefield, paying a high price for very little gain, and suffering domestic failures at home, I was really struck this week by how Russian rhetoric was trying to mask these losses, and what we saw was really very expansionist rhetoric coming out of Moscow.Ī couple of examples of this - we heard Foreign Minister Lavrov reversing his government's earlier denials that they were seeking regime change in Kyiv, and - and he talked this week of getting rid of the regime in Kyiv. ![]() Today, I'll be very brief with my opening comments and then hand it off to. ![]()
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