AUSTIN: ‘KREMLIN STILL BETTING IT CAN WAIT US OUT’: Today’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, comprised of more than 50 countries that supply both military and financial aid to Ukraine’s war effort, has taken on added urgency as Russia has poured tens of thousands of reinforcements into…
AUSTIN: ‘KREMLIN STILL BETTING IT CAN WAIT US OUT’: Today’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, comprised of more than 50 countries that supply both military and financial aid to Ukraine’s war effort, has taken on added urgency as Russia has poured tens of thousands of reinforcements into the eastern Donbas region in preparation for an expected major assault.
“The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production,” Stoltenberg said. “For example, the waiting time for large-caliber ammunition has increased from 12 to 28 months. Orders placed today would only be delivered two-and-a-half years later.” The latest intelligence update from the British Defense Ministry indicates that if the offensive has begun, it’s mostly sputtering, with “small gains around the northern outskirts of the contested Donbas town of Bakhmut,” and little progress in efforts to advance to the south.
HAPPENING TODAY: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley will have more to say later this morning when they brief reporters from NATO Headquarters at 11:45 a.m. following this morning’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. “That said, because we've not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, we've acted out [of] an abundance of caution to protect our security and interests,” added Austin.SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND: The Biden administration continues to draw a sharp distinction between the Chinese spy balloon, which the Pentagon tracked as it left China and transited the United States, and the three much smaller unknown objects that were shot down Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
“It is absolutely frustrating,” said Rep. Mike Turner , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Fox News. “We're the committee that is supposed to be receiving the intelligence that's being generated, the notifications from the administration to Congress that are official about these types of threats.”
“They're different. I think we need to separate the Chinese spy balloon, we knew what it was, we knew where it was going, we knew what it was trying to do,” said Kirby, who argued the decision to shoot down the smaller objects followed long-established protocols. 9 a.m. 201 Pennsylvania Ave.
10 a.m. — Hudson Institute virtual event: “Securing Cyberspace: Hardening America’s Software against Foreign Digital Sabotage,” Rep. Tony Gonzales, ; Bryan Clark, senior fellow and director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology; Jason Weiss, chief software officer, Conquest Cyber; Cliff Bean, director of Navy missions, Defense Sector, Peraton https://www.hudson.org/preview-link
12 p.m. — Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft virtual discussion:"Ukrainian Public Opinion and the War," with Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian research associate at the Institute of East European Studies; Gerard Toal, professor at Virginia Polytechnic; Albina Kovalyova, director-producer at BBC Eye Investigations; and Anatol Lieven, director of the Quincy Institute's Eurasia Program https://quincyinst.
9 a.m. — Peterson Institute for International Economics virtual discussion:"Challenging China's Critical Mineral Dominance," with Par Weihed, pro vice chancellor and professor of ore geology at Lulea University, Sweden; Cullen Hendrix, senior fellow at PIIE; and Cecilia Malmstrom, nonresident senior fellow at PIIE https://www.piie.
12 p.m. 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE — Heritage Foundation discussion:"China and Ukraine: A Time for Truth," with Sen. Josh Hawley https://www.heritage.org/asia/event/china-and-ukraine-time-truth
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