UNSG s report on UN reform Our Common Agenda includes five foresight elements. The Millennium Project released an international strategic assessment of these.
show evidence of one, potentially two mass graves outside of mariupol. has the u.s. assessed that we are, in fact, looking at mass graves or are these evidence of more war crimes, jon? we ve been quite clear we ve seen significant evidence of atrocities, war crimes. you ve heard very strong language coming out of our administration about the targeting of places like mariupol and elsewhere, that would be wholly consistent with how russia has been prosecuting this war from the beginning. have you confirmed those are new? new evidence of mass graves? nothing about the specific allegation but wholly consistent with everything we ve seen russia doing. as you well know, president zelenskyy asked the biden administration to declare russia a state sponsor of terrorism. what s the latest update as the administration prepared to do that at this point? we re clear to look at that, as we look at a whole range after other additional steps that we take to hold russia accountable for the cr
to capture the capital of kyiv, which they were unsuccessful in doing. they are moving east to what the white house and pentagon are describing as more open terrain. they describe it like kansas when it comes to the battlefield. they are changing what they are sending the ukrainians as russia is changing its own strategy. they need other things, whether the ukrainians have requested it or the pentagon assessed. you are seeing helicopters going to ukraine. you see more of these drones, hundreds going. artillery systems as well. you can see in this package laid out by the pentagon what is going into ukraine. what s critical here is getting it there quickly. the white house and the pentagon acknowledged today, time is not their friend. they are prepared for russia they believe to have this major ground offensive that they believe they re going to launch. they say getting them this equipment is critical.