.@DefenseIntel head Scott D. Berrier says with low confidence Russian force casualties are between 2-4k. CIA director "I fail to see how [Putin] could sustain puppet regime or pro-Russian leadership that he tries to install in the face of what is a massive opposition from Ukrainian people."

Senior Defense Department official briefing media says "We have seen more than 400 new missile launches" in Ukraine in 24 hours. Says Russia does not yet have air superiority. "But there are areas where they have more control than others" (Thread) Says "Ukrainian air and missile defense systems remain viable and intact and engage"

Senior Defense Official says movement of Russian forces from Belarus into Kiev suggests Russia has aim of "basically decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance." "More than 100 Russian launched missiles of various types were used in this initial onslaught short range short range short range ballistic missiles were the primary"

US Officials today said that they now saw Russian forces assembling in attack positions. @Maxar sends these showing new arrival of troops and attack helicopters, ground attack aircraft and fighter-bomber jets to forward locations, ground units in attack formations (thread) image @MaxarTechnologies

DC journalists are even more insular than you thought. A new inductive computational analysis of DC journos’ Twitter profiles found “Beltway’s ‘media bubble’ looks more like a collection of ‘micro bubbles.’” There’s one for “CNN” and natsec, etc #journolaw journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… Here’s the network cluster graph... see who you know!