But clearly, that continues to be, in our view, their goal. We still, as of this morning, have no indication that the Russian military has taken control of any cities. Although we believe that they are facing some logistics challenges as well on their advanced down north to Kyiv. This is most particularly acute in their advanced on Kharkiv. We continue to observe that they have experienced fuel and logistics shortages. We, overnight over the last time since we talked, we do continue to see Russian momentum slowed they continue to face a stiff resistance. And that includes in the strategic deterrent realm, and that is as far as I'm going to go on that question. I would just tell you that we remain confident in our ability to defend ourselves and our allies, and our partners. And we do not talk about our - the specifics of our strategic deterrent posture, so I'm not going to qualify that further. And escalatory because it is clearly potentially putting at play forces that could that if there's a miscalculation could - could make things much, much more dangerous.Īnd the next question you're gonna ask me is, have we changed our strategic deterrent posture. We believe that this is not only an unnecessary step for him to take but an escalatory one, unnecessary because Russia has not ever been under threat by the west or by NATO and certainly wasn't under any threat by Ukraine. We have no reason to doubt the validity of these reports. We - so, again, I'm on background to Senior Defense Official. Before I go in with the sort of situational update as we see it, I know that the first question I'm going to get asked is about this order by Mr. It's SDO, sorry to be a couple minutes late here, spent the last five minutes just trying to figure out how to use the phone system and dial the 10 different numbers that needed to dial to get in here. SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL (SDO): Good morning, everybody.
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