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Mar 14 7 tweets 7 min read
NEW: "He's a Churchill on steroids" Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner tells @CSIS about #Ukraine's @ZelenskyyUa, praising his outreach to the West and his efforts on social media to counter #Russia's #disinformation
More praise for US intelligence on #Russia-#Ukraine from Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner

"Did they ever just nail it" he says, further praising their "use of forward-leaning intelligence" in real-time to throw #Russia's #Putin off balance
#Russia's "We're all scratching our heads at their disarray" of their conventional military forces, per @MarkWarner "There was not much chock & awe in their shock & awe area"
NEW: "In the cyber domain we know the #Russia|ns are 1st rate" per @MarkWarner "The cyber attacks ... has been relatively mild"

Lack of #cyber offensive so far from #Moscow "surprises the heck out of me" he says
A #Russia #cyber offensive - "Will we see that in the coming days? I think that remains a possibility" per @MarkWarner

Says he still worries about spillover from a Russian cyber attack that could potentially trigger a @NATO Article 5
US sharing intel more readily - "It has really showing a shown in a in a information driven world, if we can share intelligence w/the public & w/our allies in a more real time basis, it puts us back in the game In terms of information warfare" per @MarkWarner
"The power of information sharing ought to be a stronger part of our military, diplomatic & overall statecraft" per @MarkWarner

re: US intelligence sharing - #Russia - #Ukraine

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More from @jseldin

Mar 16
Happening now:#Russia's Vladimir Putin defends his decision to invade #Ukraine - conduct "special military operation"

Says the operation is going according to plan, claims Ukraine was going to have nuclear weapons
#Russia|n media outlets on Twitter carrying word of #Putin's comments... ImageImageImageImage
More: #Russia|n media quoting #Putin as labeling the West an "Empire of lies"

Says Putin compares sanctions vs Russia to anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany ImageImage
Read 6 tweets
Mar 16
Happening now: US Congress waiting to hear from #Ukraine President @ZelenskyyUa Image
Standing ovation from US lawmakers as @ZelenskyyUa appears onscreen Image
"I'm proud to greet you from #Ukraine, from our capital city of #Kyiv" per @ZelenskyyUa through a translator

"We have not even thought about it [giving up], not even for a second"
Read 15 tweets
Mar 15
NEW/UPDATE: #Russia ground forces making "limited to no progress ...in achieving their objectives" in #Ukraine, per a senior US defense official
#Kyiv "remains under bombardment by long range fires, w/civilian targets-to include residential areas-being struck w/increasing frequency" per senior US defense official

"But leading elements of Russian forces have not appreciably advanced on the city" per the official
Advanced #Russia|n forced approach #Kyiv from the NW still 15-20km from the city center

#Russia forces to the east of Kyiv still 20-30km from city center, per official
Read 9 tweets
Mar 15
HAPPENING NOW: @CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie & @USAfricaCommand Cmdr Gen Stephen Townsend testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee

Chairman @SenJackReed opens up talking abt #Iran missile strike in #Irbil #Iraq... Image
Intro remarks from ranking member @JimInhofe

"#Iran is the foremost threat" in the @CENTCOM region, he says

"Our partners increasingly doubt America's resolve" he adds, blaming what he calls "Pres. Biden's misguided policies" Image
"The threat posed by #Iran is graver than ever" @CENTCOM's Gen Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie warns in his opening remarks

"#Russia's invasion of #Ukraine moreover has violently demonstrated its willful disregard for int'l norms just have we have seen thru Russia's actions in #Syria Image
Read 58 tweets
Mar 14
#ISIS media campaign showing fighters pledging allegiance to new leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is growing

Per @siteintelgroup new photo sets show fighters from:

#Syria
#Afghanistan
#Iraq (inclu. #Baghdad, #Saluhaddin)
#Libya
#Nigeria
#Pakistan

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Cont. - #ISIS media campaign posting new photos showing fighters pledges to Abu al-Hassan

#Sahel (#BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger)

Earlier photo releases showed fighters giving bay'ah from:

#ISWAP
#Somalia
#Yemen
#EastAsia (#Philippines, #Indonesia)
#Iraq (#Kirkuk, #Anbar)
#Syria
Per @JihadoScope, #ISIS has issued 18 photo sets to date showing fighters pledging allegiance to Abu al-Hassan:

#Iraq (4)
#Nigeria (3)
#Syria
#Somalia
#Indonesia or #Philippines (for East Asia)
#Yemen
#Afghanistan
#Sahel - #Cameroon / #BurkinaFaso / #Mali / #Niger
#Pakistan
Read 4 tweets
Mar 14
Happening now: @PentagonPresSec briefs the media from the Pentagon... Image
#Yavoriv strikes - "This was clearly a Russia|n airstrike"
per @PentagonPresSec, who says the missiles were launched from Russian jets

"We know that several structures were hit..." he says
Airstrikes vs #Yavoriv is 3rd major strikes by #Russia in western #Ukraine - "It certainly appears the Russians are broadening their target set" per @PentagonPresSec
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