I didn't see anything there and - you know, that looked anything close to military. I can't - I just don't have any knowledge on that.Īnd then in terms of the missile strike, I mean, I saw the same videos that you all saw. Nice to talk to you again.įirst of all, on the first one, I don't know. SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL: Yeah, Lita, thanks. Can you provide any clarity on what it was that they hit, and whether or not there were any military facilities either in the area or whatever that they could have been targeting? The Russians are claiming they hit a military facility, whereas other sort of Ukrainian reports are calling it a concert hall, et cetera. Number one, can you just confirm at all the death of the British aid worker, Paul Urey? And then second, just a little bit more on the cruise missile strike. We continue to provide aid, as you know, with our continued flow.Īnd I will hold there pending any questions. They are having an effect, and I think, again, you all have reported on that quite extensively.Īnd then we continue to train Ukrainians. I like to make them work for it, honestly, and I - but to be quite honest, I'll let the battlefield videos and the Ukrainian reports speak for themselves. You know, needless to say, the Russians are really important in that information. In terms of HIMARS, I know there's continuing to be a lot of interest about how the HIMARS are performing. And I think all told over the week, again, through your reporting, I think we're looking at between 100, 150, somewhere in there, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, this week in Ukraine as a result of Russian strikes. What we know for a fact is that they hit and killed a number of civilians. On the maritime domain, I think a number of you have reported that we did see the Vinnytsia missile attack yesterday came from what we believe, or has been reported and we believe there's no reason to suggest otherwise- was submarine-launched missiles from the Russians.
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And then down in the south in Mykolaiv and Kherson, nothing really to update you with on the ground, as both sides are continuing to defend or really, no real progress there. You - a number of you have reported on that over last week. And then we certainly assess that they continue to employ artillery attacks around Seversk. So you know, pretty strong defenses from the Ukrainians, and the Russians have stated publicly that they want to move on Slovyansk, but still have not been able to do so. In the vicinity of Izium, and Slovyansk, it’s generally the same. Near Kharkiv, we assess that the Ukrainians are continuing to defeat Russian attempts to gain ground. I'll give you a just kind of around the battlefield of what we're seeing on the ground. Russian forces continue to deploy indiscrimate artillery bombardment, along with air missile strikes. We assess that Russian forces are limited to incremental, if any, gains around the northern Donbas, held off by Ukrainian defenses. And I look forward to our conversation today, and hopefully some helpful conversation.Īs mentioned the 142nd day of Russia's unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL: Hi, everybody, (inaudible).
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