Happening now: @PentagonPresSec briefs reporters at the Pentagon 
#Ukraine increasingly taking the fight to #Russia - "We have seen indications that the #Ukrainians are going a bit more on the offense now...particularly in the south, near #Kherson" per @PentagonPresSec
#Russia's nuclear posture - "We haven't seen anything that would lead us to conclude that we need to change our strategic deterrent posture" per @PentagonPresSec
Calls #Kremlin's nuclear rhetoric "dangerous...It's not the way a responsible nuclear power should act"
Calls #Kremlin's nuclear rhetoric "dangerous...It's not the way a responsible nuclear power should act"
#Russia-#Ukraine - "The security environment on the European continent is now ... changed" per @PentagonPresSec "Everybody's going to have to deal w/that going forward"
New US national security strategy is being informed by what's happening in #Ukraine, he adds
New US national security strategy is being informed by what's happening in #Ukraine, he adds
US continuing to see signs that #Russia "did not properly plan for logistics & sustainment" in #Ukraine, per @PentagonPresSec
Points to Russian troops looting grocery stores...
Points to Russian troops looting grocery stores...
#Russia "They have over time built up a significant amt of combat capability...they still have a significant amt of that combat capability available to them" per @PentagonPresSec
"That said, they have been increasingly frustrated...." by #Ukraine's forces/resistance
"That said, they have been increasingly frustrated...." by #Ukraine's forces/resistance
"The airspace is contested & it's contested bcs the #Ukrainians are making it that way"
per @PentagonPresSec
#Ukraine-#Russia air superiority
per @PentagonPresSec
#Ukraine-#Russia air superiority
"However this ends up, we're going to have to look at the #Europe|an continent in a different way" per @PentagonPresSec on US, @NATO force posture
"We certainly have indications morale is a growing problem" for #Russia|n forces inside #Ukraine, per @PentagonPresSec
"We've seen increasing indications" as invasion has failed to deliver the anticipated results, he says
"We've seen increasing indications" as invasion has failed to deliver the anticipated results, he says
"It's quite stunning" @PentagonPresSec says of #Russia's failure to achieve its strategic goals in #Ukraine 27 days in
No signs of #Russia|ns citizens volunteering to join the fight in #Ukraine - "quite the contrary" per @PentagonPresSec
NEW: "We do understand that at least in one instance they used a #hypersonic missile" per @PentagonPresSec
"We don't view the use of that sort of weapon as some sort of game changer here" he says, noting the target was allegedly a #Ukraine storage facility
"We don't view the use of that sort of weapon as some sort of game changer here" he says, noting the target was allegedly a #Ukraine storage facility
"There are times and places when internet access in #Ukraine is being disrupted" by #Russia, per @PentagonPresSec
"Largely, at a strategic level they've [Russia] have failed to do that"
#cyber
"Largely, at a strategic level they've [Russia] have failed to do that"
#cyber
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