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May 26 5 tweets 5 min read
NEW: NO US troops fighting in #Ukraine but there is a defense attaché - a colonel - at @USEmbassyKyiv,
per @PentagonPresSec

Kirby adds, "US troops will not be fighting in this war in #Ukraine" and that @StateDept has not changed its position regarding not having military guards
#Turkey pledge to expand buffer zones in northern #Syria - "We're obviously very concerned" per @PentagonPresSec

Points to risk to civilians and to anti-ISIS operations by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF)
"We are in daily contact with our #SDF partners in northern #Syria" per @PentagonPresSec

Adds #ISIS while diminished "remains a viable threat"
US accuses #Russia of "weaponizing food"

Asked about #Moscow's offer to allow the export of grains from #Ukraine if sanctions are lifted, @PentagonPresSec says "They're weaponizing food"
"This is just another part of a brutal way of prosecuting a completely unprovoked war" per @PentagonPresSec about #Russia's blockade of grain shipments

"I guess we shouldn't be surprised by that since they've weaponized everything else including lies & information"

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More from @jseldin

May 27
Happening now: @DeptofDefense briefing @PentagonPresSec Image
#Ukraine requests for #MLRS - "We're working every single day to get weapons & systems into Ukraine" per @PentagonPresSec, saying #Washington is aware of the requests by #Kyiv

"We're in constant communication w/them [Ukrainians]..."
"I won't get ahead of decisions" per @PentagonPresSec, re the #MLRS request by Ukraine
Read 16 tweets
May 26
Day 92 of #Russia's war in #Ukraine

Now 110 Russian Battalion Tactical Groups operating in #Ukraine, most in the south of #Ukraine, per a senior US defense official

"We assess that #Russia has made some incremental gains...still is fighting for control of the town of #Lyman"
"We blv that #Russia|n forces have been able to seize most of northeastern #Sievierodonetsk" per a senior US defense official
"No major changes" around #Kharkiv, per a senior US defense official

#Russia|n forces still within about 10km of the Russian border
Read 19 tweets
May 26
Happening now: @USArmy Gen Christopher Cavoli - nominated to serve as commander of @US_EUCOM and as Supreme Allied Commander-#Europe - testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee
"In #Europe, the core security challenge is #Russia" per Gen Cavoli

"Russia's unprovoked invasion of #Ukraine ushers in a new era in European security...It will be up to us all to reestablish an enduring stability"
"But #Russia is not our only challenge. #China's growing influence is also of huge concern" per Gen Cavoli "As are terrorism, migration, #cybersecurity, & #climatechange"

"We cannot be a one-problem alliance"
Read 15 tweets
May 26
NEW: An estimated 20,000 foreigners expressed interest in becoming #foreignfighters in #Ukraine -including some extremists" since #Russia invaded but evidence suggests "only a fraction...actually did so" per a new report by @FightExtremism & @KacperRekawek
#Ukraine #foreignfighter number "ranges from merely several hundreds to a few thousand" per @FightExtremism report "This is dwarfed by tens of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers who joined units in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force (TDF)"
Per @FightExtremism report, at least 2 violence-oriented foreign extremists who traveled to #Ukraine "have been killed in the latest round of hostilities"

"Both were on the pro-#Russia side, including one who was a left-wing extremist"
Read 6 tweets
May 25
UPDATE: High-level #ISIS fighter extradited from #Bosnia & #Herzegovina +4 years ago found guilty of recruiting, providing weapons & intelligence

Now 40yo Mirsad Kandic faces life in prison, more at sentencing, per @TheJusticeDept
Per @TheJusticeDept, prosecutors presented evidence from 36 witnesses & from 6 continents

Kandic "worked directly with #ISIS emirs & battlefield commanders... provided battlefield intelligence and maps" per DOJ
Kandic also ""sent thousands of radicalized #ISIS volunteer fighters from Western countries into ISIS-controlled territories in #Syria & elsewhere in the Middle East" per @TheJusticeDept
Read 4 tweets
May 25
Happening now: "What we are in is an era of unprecedented threats" @NSA_CSDirector Rob Joyce tells @thecipherbrief's Cyber Initiatives Group

Says #Ukraine "has been heavily targeted" despite lack of catastrophic effects so far

"They mount a great incidence response..." he says
"We did see a really sophisticated attack [by #Russia]...the attack on the satellite services" per @NSA_CSDirector

Calls it another case in which Russia didn't care who else was affected - "We saw wide swaths of businesses lose their connectivity"
.@NSA_CSDirector calls the #Russia|n attack on satellite services "fairly sophisticated"
Read 4 tweets

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