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"#Russia has failed to achieve its objectives. An independent #Ukraine endures" @DeptofDefense Asst Sec Celeste Wallander tells HASC
"Although #Russia's conventional military capabilities are diminished, Russia continues to present serious risk" per @DeptofDefense's Wallander

"...as it retains capabilities in nuclear, #cyber, information operations, counterspace & undersea warfare"
"Russia remains an acute threat" warns @DeptofDefense's Wallander
#China-"It is clear that the PRC's influence in #Europe has waned in recent years in part due to its close alignment w/#Russia" per @DeptofDefense's Wallander
#Russia-#Ukraine - "This war is far from over" @US_EUCOM Commander Gen Christopher Cavoli tells HASC

"Russia will remain an cute threat to Euro-Atlantic Security..."
"Clearly, during this conflict #Russia & #China have grown closer together" inclu on military cooperation, per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"It appears increasingly to be an uneven romance" he says "Russia could become the junior partner"
#Russia's military not as damaged by war in #Ukraine as some might think

"Much of the Russian military has not been affected negatively by this conflict" per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"One of those forces is their undersea forces"
#Russia's underseas assets "more active than we've seen them in years" per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"Their patrols into the Atlantic & throughout the Atlantic are at a high level most of the time"
Tracking US aid to #Ukraine - "We inventory everything that comes through US hands on the way into Ukraine" per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"Ee believe we have a very very solid understanding of what goes into Ukraine"
Over the past few months, #Ukraine has fielded a US-provided @NATO standard logistic tracking system, per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"They give us access to their networks to monitor that...we watch over their shoulders"
US also doing on-site inspections to track US security aid - one happening today in #Odesa & another scheduled for next week, per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli
#Ukraine's need for aircraft-"while on the list, Western modern aircraft, is about eighth on the list" per @DeptofDefense's Wallander

Says highest priorities have been air defense, artillery & armor
Donation by allies to #Ukraine "of legacy Soviet aircraft have been helpful to Ukraine because their pilots are trained on those aircraft" per @DeptofDefense's Wallander

"They know how to use them. They know how to maintain them"
"What #Ukraine really needs to do is control the airspace over its country & over its forces...They've been doing that very effectively w/ground-based air defense" per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"That's the thing that's most imperative right now"
.@US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli also says US tech/capabilities have been married to #Ukraine's legacy Soviet aircraft but that he can't say more in an open setting
#Ukraine will get all the weapons it needs in time for its anticipated spring offensive

"Yes" @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli told HASC lawmakers earlier "We sat down w/the Ukrainians, with our Ukrainian colleagues & we calculated the amount of materiel they would need..."
"...we checked it a couple of times & we gathered it from our allies" per @US_EUCOM's Gen Cavoli

"We have been shipping it into the country [#Ukraine]" he said "Over 98% of the combat vehicles are already there"

"I am very confident"

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Apr 27
"It is important that the #UnitedStates restores for #Pakistan foreign military financing & foreign military sales which were suspended by the previous administration" Pakistan Amb to the US Masood Khan told @TheWilsonCenter earlier Thursday
#Pakistan Ambassador to the US Khan also calls on #Washington to "revive its role for strategic stability in #SouthAsia"

"We believe a policy of imbalance & disequilibrium is fraught with serious perils"
"#Afghanistan's stability is imperative...1st & foremost for its own ppl who have suffered grievously" per #Pakistan Amb Khan

"It is equally important to stem the surge of terrorism that has viciously attacked Pakistan" since August 2021
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Apr 27
"It is important that the #UnitedStates restores for #Pakistan foreign military financing & foreign military sales which were suspended by the previous administration" Pakistan Amb to the US Masood Khan tells @TheWilsonCenter
#Pakistan Ambassador to the US Shah also calls on #Washington to "revive its role for strategic stability in #SouthAsia"

"We believe a policy of imbalance & disequilibrium is fraught with serious perils"
"#Afghanistan's stability is imperative...1st & foremost for its own ppl who have suffered grievously" per #Pakistan Amb Shah

"It is equally important to stem the surge of terrorism that has viciously attacked Pakistan" since August 2021
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Apr 25
#ISIS-#Khorasan cell leader behind the deadly bombing of #Kabul Airport's Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021 that killed 13 US troops, +170 Afghan civilians killed by the #Taliban, State Department official confirms to @VOANews
#ISIS-#Khorasan cell leader behind the #Abbey Gate bombing "killed in a Taliban operation" per White House spox John Kirby

Kirby descibes the cell leader as "a key ISIS-K official directly involved in plotting operations like Abbey Gate"
Per White House's Kirby, the death of the #ISIS-#Khorasan cell leader "is another in a series of high-profile leadership losses ISIS-K has suffered this year"
Read 4 tweets
Apr 24
NEW: Digital repression "does not, at least in my view, get enough attention" @ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines tells @CarnegieEndow
#China is "the global leader in digital repression" per @ODNIgov's Haines

#Russia comes next, using a different approach that relies heavily on #disinformation, she says
US keeping eye on "Kremlin-aligned media" & social media, per @ODNIgov's Haines
Read 15 tweets
Apr 24
NEW: @CJTFOIR seeing "dramatic decrease" in #ISIS activity, per Commander MajGen Matthew McFarlane

- 68% reduction in attacks in #Iraq (year on year)

- 55% reduction in attacks in #Syria (year on year)

But he warns, "The #Daesh ideology remains unconstrained & active"
"We continue to see unsafe & unprofessional air activity from the #Russia|ns" in #Syria, per @CJTFOIR's MajGen McFarlane

"We've only seen it from the air" he adds "We continuously communicate"
"All aspects of #ISIS that we are tracking continue to decline or degrade" per @CJTFOIR's MajGen McFarlane, asked about US op a week ago to eliminate sr ISIS leader linked to overseas kidnap plot
Read 4 tweets
Apr 24
JUST IN: US sanctions senior #Iran law enforcement & #IRGC officials for suppressing protects/censorship

Includes officials with:
- the Law Enforcement Forces of Iran (LEF)
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
- Supreme Council on Cyberspace Leader ImageImage
US sanctions vs #Iran being coordinated w/#Britain, which is slapping #Tehran w/similar sanctions

“The Iranian people deserve freedom of expression without the threat of violent retaliation & censorship from those in power" per @USTreasury Under Sec Brian Nelson
NEW US sanctions targeting:

-IRGC Salman Corps Deputy Commander Parviz Absalan
-IRGC’s Ground Forces Deputy Inspector Amanollah Goshtasbi
-IRGC Brig Gen Ahmed Khadem Seyedoshohada
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