NEW: @DeptofDefense has "full confidence" in #Poland's investigation into the explosion that killed 2 on Tuesday - likely caused by a #Ukraine air defense missile, per @SecDef Lloyd Austin
"The world knows that #Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident" per Austin
"The world knows that #Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident" per Austin
NEW: #NASAMS sent to #Ukraine"are now operational & their performance so far has been very impressive" per @SecDef
Says including Tuesday's barrage from #Russia, NASAMS success rate has been 100%
Says including Tuesday's barrage from #Russia, NASAMS success rate has been 100%
#Russia "failing to achieve their operational & tactical objectives" per @thejointstaff Chair, Gen Mark Milley
"It's clear that the Russian will to fight does not match the Ukrainian will to fight"
"It's clear that the Russian will to fight does not match the Ukrainian will to fight"
"What they tried to do, they failed at" per Gen Milley on #Russia
But rather than end war, Milley accuses #Moscow of engaging in a "war of terror" against #Ukraine targets with "little or no military purpose"
But rather than end war, Milley accuses #Moscow of engaging in a "war of terror" against #Ukraine targets with "little or no military purpose"
More than 25% of #Ukraine civilians now without power due t #Russia's latest airstrikes, per Gen Milley
Milley calls the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure a "war crime"
Milley calls the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure a "war crime"
An integrated air & missile air defense system "is what is necessary" for #Ukraine "to continue its control of the skies" per Gen Milley
Says discussions today focused on providing #Kyiv such capabilities
Says discussions today focused on providing #Kyiv such capabilities
#Russia is "going to continue that fight [in #Ukraine] into the winter as best we call tell" per Gen Milley
US will continue to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes" he says
US will continue to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes" he says
The resolve of #Ukraine's allies & supporters "is high" per Gen Milley
"We will be there for as long as it takes for #Ukraine to be free" per Gen Milley
"This was most likely, most likely the result of a #Ukrainian air defense missile" per @SecDef of initial investigation into explosion that killed 2 in #Poland
Attempts were made by @thejointstaff to speak w/his #Russia|n counterpart but to no avail, per Gen Milley
#Russia's Gen Gerasimov did not take the call, Milley says
#Russia's Gen Gerasimov did not take the call, Milley says
"I suspect very shortly, we will have very confirmed data" on where the missile that hit #Poland came from, per Gen Milley
"There could be a lot of activity in the winter" between #Russia-#Ukraine, once mud/ground hardens with lower temps, per Gen Milley
"I would remind everyone that this war started in February" adds @SecDef
US will do all it can to ensure #Ukraine has "the means to accomplish their goals & objectives" he adds
US will do all it can to ensure #Ukraine has "the means to accomplish their goals & objectives" he adds
"The probability of #Russia achieving its strategic objectives...is close to zero" per Gen Milley
But Russia still occupies a significant amount of territory & "they still have significant combat power inside #Ukraine " he says
But Russia still occupies a significant amount of territory & "they still have significant combat power inside #Ukraine " he says
To expel #Russia from all #Ukraine a "very difficult task" cautions Gen Milley, even though Russia's military "is on its back...really hurting bad"
That Russian weakness could give #Kyiv an opening for successful talks for a political solution
That Russian weakness could give #Kyiv an opening for successful talks for a political solution
#Russia's ability to keep prosecuting its war in #Ukraine "remains to be seen" per @SecDef, noting "staggering" losses with tanks, other equipment, & precision munitions, which could take years to recover
"I don't think this will be over any time soon" per @SecDef, noting provision of arms/capabilities from #Iran & #NorthKorea
A winter fight, though, "favors Ukraine" he says "The Ukrainians will have the upper hand" due in part to US support/winter supplies
A winter fight, though, "favors Ukraine" he says "The Ukrainians will have the upper hand" due in part to US support/winter supplies
Pentagon caution to #China & its military - "China is not going to be a better military than the #UnitedStates military is" per @thejointstaff's Gen Milley
"We will be number one 5 years from now, 10 years from now and 50 years from now" per Milley
"We will be number one 5 years from now, 10 years from now and 50 years from now" per Milley
"As long as we remain number one, then then we will deter the war that people worry about, a great power war between #China & the #UnitedStates" per Gen Milley
More: @thejointstaff chair calls #China's Xi Jinping "a rational actor"
"& I think that he would conclude that an attack on #Taiwan in the near future would be an excessive amount of risk & it would end in a ... debacle for the Chinese military" per Gen Milley
"& I think that he would conclude that an attack on #Taiwan in the near future would be an excessive amount of risk & it would end in a ... debacle for the Chinese military" per Gen Milley
"War on paper is a whole lot different than real war" per Gen Milley
"And for someone who has for a military that hasn't fought in combat since fighting the Vietnamese in 1979, they would be playing a very very dangerous game to cross the straits & invade the island of #Taiwan"
"And for someone who has for a military that hasn't fought in combat since fighting the Vietnamese in 1979, they would be playing a very very dangerous game to cross the straits & invade the island of #Taiwan"
"They [#China] don't have the experience, the background to do it. They haven't trained to it yet" per Gen Milley on any attack vs #Taiwan
"It'll be some time before the Chinese have the military capability and they're ready to do it"
"It'll be some time before the Chinese have the military capability and they're ready to do it"
#China military op to take #Taiwan would be "a geopolitical mistake, a strategic mistake similar to what the strategic mistake that #Putin has made in #Ukraine" per Gen Milley
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