NEW: #Ukraine-"It was the assessment of the American intelligence community...#Russia would be significantly more capable & significantly more successful on the battlefield" White House Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells #AspenSecurity
"In fact, #Russia was not able to acheive the basic strategic objectives that Pres. #Putin set out" per @JakeSullivan46
#Ukraine "won the battle of #Kyiv, they beat Russia back from #Kharkiv, they stopped Russia from being able to make a bum's rush to #Odesa"
#Ukraine "won the battle of #Kyiv, they beat Russia back from #Kharkiv, they stopped Russia from being able to make a bum's rush to #Odesa"
"Now we're in a circumstance where #Russia is facing significant difficulties constituting th kind of force necessary for them to achieve the objectives which have not fundamentally changed" per @JakeSullivan46
"That has been an enormous credit to the bravery & skill of the #Ukrainian military..." per @JakeSullivan46
"It also a credit to the fact that we have provided an enormous amount of weaponry and training...to give Ukraine the ability to achieve those military successes"
"It also a credit to the fact that we have provided an enormous amount of weaponry and training...to give Ukraine the ability to achieve those military successes"
"We want to see a sovereign, independent, viable #Ukraine that emerges proudly from this & can repel any future #Russia|n aggression" per @JakeSullivan46
"What exactly the terms of any diplomacy are...that is for the Ukrainians to determine"
"What exactly the terms of any diplomacy are...that is for the Ukrainians to determine"
"We have staying power" per @JakeSullivan46 re those who think the West will lose interest or resolve in backing #Ukraine
"We blv it is our strategic objective to ensure that #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine is not a strategic success for #Putin, that it is a strategic failure" per @JakeSullivan46
"That means both that he be denied his objectives in Ukraine & that Russia pay a longer term price..."
"That means both that he be denied his objectives in Ukraine & that Russia pay a longer term price..."
US wants #Putin "be denied his objectives in Ukraine & that #Russia pay a longer term price in terms of the elements of its nat'l power so that the lessons that goes forth to would be aggressors elsewhere is if you try things like this it comes a a cost that is not worth bearing"
"Do I believe that we have under supplied the #Ukrainian military? I do not" per @JakeSullivan46
"I believe that the speed, scope & scale of US military assistance to #Ukraine is an absolute testament to the logistical capacity of the US military..."
"I believe that the speed, scope & scale of US military assistance to #Ukraine is an absolute testament to the logistical capacity of the US military..."
"...& honestly to the surprising political capacity of the US Congress to come together on a bipartisan basis & put forward the resources to get this done" per @JakeSullivan46
NEW: US will not provide #Ukraine with "long range missiles, #ATACMs, which have a range of 300 kilometers bcs [@POTUS] does believe...we do not end up in a circumstance where we're heading down a road to a 3rd world war" per @JakeSullivan46
US concerned abt safety of #Ukraine's President @ZelenskyyUa - "This is a leader in wartime dealing w/an opponent, an adversary, an enemy in #Russia that is ruthless, brutal & capable of just about anything" per @JakeSullivan46
"Part of our objective in #Ukraine has to be able to show, strength, resilience, staying power, canniness, capability bcs that will have some impact on our ability to deter others elsewhere" per @JakeSullivan46
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