White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby announces new U.S. strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, who he says “still have some offensive capability."
The Russian forces have suffered heavy losses in their offensive on the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, including at least 125 armoured vehicles, but may still achieve some tactical success in the coming months, the US Presidential Administration has said.
capable. we were surprised that russia didn t do comprehensive cyber attacks in ukraine and also when we started the supply the ukrainians that they didn t do it hire. if we got into conflict. they would try, while we are fighting a war in the indo-pacific region, they would try to defeat us at home to attack our electric grid, to attack oil and gas distribution, to attack our financial system. take atm machines away from us. et cetera. to do as much damage as they possibly can to break american will. and it would cost us lives. bret: we re not ready. i mean, we are not ready to. here s the catch though. our critical infrastructure you are absolutely right. we are vulnerable we don t have the defense. our offensive capability is eye watering. the chinese know it. mutually assured defense with nuclear weapons. if they did that to us, they know what is coming to them as a
as we were saying, no end in sight but this is the whole point, ukraine has been appealing for 300 tanks and this is the start to say perhaps which way this conflict goes next. absolutely, and this is now a conflict in its ninth year, not its first year. the war started in 2014. what we are seeing at the moment is static lines overwinter what we are seeing at the moment is static lines over winter which will would expect and be quite natural, what the tanks applied does is give ukraine significant offensive capability and the ability to punch through russian lines and take back lots more territory. we saw this very effectively in september in the counter offensive in the east and they will try to take back territory this year. but this war might drag on past this year as well. irate this year. but this war might drag on past this year as well. we have
as the president noted, his country is under attack, unprovoked attack. i don t have any announcements on other systems today. we understand president zelenskyy wants as much capability as possible. as you point out, this has been a changing war. you have made different decisions as the battlefield has changed. that s right. let s talk about the goal here. the president said the goal was to be defensive, not offensive. the goal is also, as you have acknowledged, to have the offensive capability to push back against russia and to retake russian territory. explain what you mean by retake i should say, ukrainian territory that has been taken by russia. does that mean just the territory since february 24th of last year or does that go back to 2014, including crimea? from the very beginning, 11 months ago, and even beyond that, andrea. we have always said and our policy has always been we want