KYIV LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY: The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, now surrounded by Russian forces on its outskirts, awoke on the fifth day of the invasion to find the country still independent but with Russia’s Vladimir Putin showing no sign of backing down.
While the Pentagon reports Ukraine’s stubborn and creative defenses have slowed and, in some cases, stymied the Russian advance, Putin still has as much as a third of his 150,000 strong invasion force in reserve, and he continues to order more troops into battle. Satellite images from the last 24 hours show a three-mile-long convoy of Russian military vehicles heading toward Kyiv.
“We do continue to see Russian momentum slowed. They continue to face stiff resistance. We continue to observe that they have experienced fuel and logistics shortages,” a senior defense official told reporters yesterday. “The Russians have been frustrated. They have been slowed, they have been stymied.”
“We don’t know whether it’s a failure in planning. We don’t know whether it’s a failure in execution,” the official said, “But I think we can assume that they will learn from this and that they will adapt and that they will overcome these challenges. And we have to keep in mind they have a very significant amount of combat power still available to them in and out of the country.”
RUSSIA STUNNED BY UKRAINE’S IMPRESSIVE AIR FIGHT, PENTAGON SAYS
MAJOR CITIES REMAIN UNDER UKRAINIAN CONTROL: After a weekend of fierce fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with 1.5 million people, fell to Russian forces only to be recaptured within hours by Ukrainian fighters.
Russia had expected to quickly capture the northern city just 25 miles from its border, but today the Ukrainian flag still flies in the city center.
In the south, Russian naval infantry who conducted an amphibious landing from the Azov Sea have taken control of the coastal city of Berdyansk, which has about 100,000 residents, but the Pentagon says Russia has yet to score a significant military victory.
“The airspace over Ukraine is still contested,” said the senior official in a conference call briefing early Sunday morning. “And that means that the Ukrainians are still using both aircraft and their own air and missile defense systems, which we believe are still intact and still viable, though there’s been some degradation by the Russians.”
KYIV MAYOR SAYS CITY IS SURROUNDED, LATER WALKS IT BACK
DESPERATE ARMS RACE AGAINST TIME: On Friday, President Joe Biden approved an additional $350 million of military assistance for Ukraine, a package of weapons drawn from U.S. military stocks that includes Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, Javelin tank-killer missiles, small arms, and body armor. The latest tranche of weaponry brings the total U.S. military assistance to Ukraine to $1 billion over the past year.
Over the weekend, other countries also announced emergency shipments of arms as well, including Germany, which — in a surprising reversal of its previous reticence to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — announced Saturday it will send 500 Stinger missiles and other weapons and supplies.
On Sunday, Sweden said it would ship 5,000 anti-tank weapons, 5,000 helmets, 5,000 sets of body armor, along with 135,000 field rations to Ukraine. Finland also promised 2,000 helmets and body armor.
With the airspace over Ukraine not open to cargo flights, the big question is how — and how fast — the desperately needed munitions can be delivered into the hands of Ukrainian forces, presumably over land from Poland.
“We don’t have any indications that there’s been a blockage or impediment to continued assistance coming from the West,” the senior defense official said Sunday. “Support continues to flow not just from the United States but from other nations as well.”
“I will remain reticent to talk about the method in which, and the ways in which, we’re going to look for ways to continue to provide our support precisely because we want to make sure it gets into the hands of Ukrainian armed forces.”
US TO PROVIDE $350 MILLION MORE TO UKRAINE
‘THERE ARE DEAD AND WOUNDED’: The Russian military said Sunday that some of its troops were killed and some were wounded in Ukraine — admitting for the first time that it had suffered casualties since the Russian invasion.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday that “there are dead and wounded among our comrades,” without offering any numbers while insisting Russia’s losses were “many times” fewer than those of Ukraine’s forces.
Ukraine claims that its forces have killed between 4,500 and 5,300 Russian troops, more than twice the number of combat deaths the U.S. suffered in 20 years of war in Afghanistan. In addition, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson says Ukrainian forces have destroyed 29 Russian planes, 29 helicopters, and 191 tanks.
Neither side’s claims can be independently verified.
UKRAINE CLAIMS ROUGHLY 4,500 ENEMIES KILLED AHEAD OF ‘CRUCIAL’ PERIOD IN RUSSIAN INVASION
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HAPPENING TODAY: A delegation from Ukraine headed by its defense minister is meeting with a Russian delegation today on the Belarusian border for “diplomatic talks,” which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to, despite low expectations of progress.
Russia is expected to demand Ukraine’s complete surrender, while Ukraine is seeking a ceasefire and full withdrawal of Russian troops. “We will not give up. We will not capitulate. We will not give away an inch of our territory,” said Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Some military experts question whether Russia is serious about the talks or just seeking a strategic pause to resupply its troops, whose supply lines have been effectively degraded by Ukrainian forces and are short on fuel and food.
UKRAINIAN DELEGATION AGREES TO MEET WITH RUSSIA AS PUTIN’S FORCES TRY TO TAKE KYIV
ALSO TODAY: The United Nations Security Council has called a special session of the 193-member General Assembly for today. Because the vote by the 15-member council was procedural, Russia, while voting against the rare emergency session, could not block the move.
“Russia cannot veto our voices. Russia cannot veto the Ukrainian people. And Russia cannot veto the U.N. Charter. Russia cannot, and will not, veto accountability,” said U.S. United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. “The council members who supported this resolution recognize that this is no ordinary moment. We need to take extraordinary actions to meet this threat to our international system and do everything we can to help Ukraine and its people.”
BIDEN TO CONFER WITH ALLIES: President Joe Biden returns to Washington this morning after spending the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware.
The president has a secure conference call at 11:15 a.m. with U.S. allies “to discuss the latest developments regarding Russia’s attack on Ukraine and to coordinate our united response,” according to the White House.
DESPERATE, PUTIN PLAYS NUCLEAR CARD: The U.S. response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Sunday announcement that he had ordered his nuclear forces to assume a “special combat regime,” a higher state of alert, drew a muted response from the U.S.
Putin said the higher state of alert was prompted by “aggressive statements” by NATO toward Russia and cited the stiff economic sanctions imposed on Russia.
“We believe this is not only an unnecessary step for him to take, but an escalatory one,” said a senior official at the Pentagon. “Unnecessary because Russia’s never been under threat by the West, or by NATO, and certainly wasn’t under any threat by Ukraine. Escalatory because it’s clearly potentially putting at play forces that could, if there’s a miscalculation, make things much, much more dangerous.”
“This is really a pattern that we’ve seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on ABC. “The global community and the American people should look at it through that prism. We’ve seen him do this time and time again.”
“He’s trying to accomplish through nuclear coercion now what he couldn’t establish through facts on the ground through the performance of his military,” said retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on CNN. “We should remember there was a long history of a Soviet Union with nuclear saber-rattling. And we should not be intimidated by it.”
“There’s a well-established playbook and a well-established way to operate between U.S. and Soviet forces that Vladimir Putin knows — he’s a KGB officer — that we have forgotten. We need to relearn those. And this nuclear signaling is a critical component of it.”
‘THIS IS DANGEROUS RHETORIC’: In an appearance on CNN, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Putin’s actions, along with his words last week, not only threaten Ukraine but also NATO countries.
In his speech last Monday, Putin made this not-so-veiled threat: “Whoever tries to interfere should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to such consequences that you have never experienced in history,” which was widely interpreted as a threat to use nuclear weapons.
“This is dangerous rhetoric. This is a behavior which is irresponsible,” said Stoltenberg. “If you combine this rhetoric with what they’re doing on the ground in Ukraine, waging war against an independent, sovereign nation, conducting a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, this adds to the seriousness of the situation,” he said. “We also have to realize that we are now faced with a new normal for our security.”
JUST LAST MONTH: A reminder that on Jan. 3, Russia was among the nuclear weapon states, including the U.S., France, the U.K., and China, that signed a joint statement forswearing the offensive use of nuclear weapons.
“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. As nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, we also affirm that nuclear weapons — for as long as they continue to exist — should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war.”
‘SHIELDS UP’ FOR CYBERATTACK: “We have said, as an intelligence community publicly, all along that Putin wants to avoid a nuclear war with the United States, because, obviously, that would be bad,” said Beth Sanner, former deputy director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump.
On CNN, Sanner said she’s more worried that Russia may retaliate with cyber or ransomware attacks on U.S. infrastructure.
“I think that these sanctions are significant enough that he’s going to start seeing some real pain. And what else does he have to do, short of pushing a button? I think cyber,” Sanner said. “I am more thinking that shields up, America, on cyberattacks. That’s probably what we will see first.”
“The analogous thing to do after the sanctions would be attacks against our financial sector,” said former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “So we need to have our cyber guard up.”
“There’s a whole range of things that they can do. But, certainly, Russia is and has been inside of our cyber, our critical infrastructure, for years. And so they have quite a bit of capacity,” said Sanner. “I think Americans watching today, everybody should go to work and change their passwords and update their security systems.”
SANCTIONS START TO BITE: Russians are feeling the aftershocks of the wide-ranging economic sanctions imposed on Russia’s banking system.
After losing almost half of its value, the Russian stock market has been shut down. Its central bank has doubled interest rates from 9.5% to 20%, in part to try to convince average Russians who have been lining up at banks not to withdraw their savings.
The ruble has lost 30% of its value against the dollar, and EU countries have banned Russian airlines and private planes from landing at its airports, resulting in a mass cancellation of flights to and from Moscow.
RUSSIANS TAKE TO STREETS, BRAVE RIOT POLICE TO PROTEST PUTIN’S UKRAINE INVASION
PUTIN SUCCEEDS WHERE TRUMP FAILED: Former President Donald Trump berated Germany for four years over its failure to spend 2% of its GDP on defense spending, a goal for all NATO nations.
But it took the Russian invasion to convince the government of Olaf Scholz it needed to meet the NATO goal now.
On Sunday, Scholz called the invasion “a turning point in the history of our continent,” and he announced that the German military will receive an additional $110 billion this year — doubling last year’s defense budget.
And more importantly, Scholz committed to exceeding the 2% goal “from now on, every year.”
“We are not only striving for this goal because we have promised our friends and allies that we will increase our defense spending to 2% of our economic output by 2024, but we do this for ourselves, too, for our own safety,” he said.
NORTH KOREA: On Sunday, Korea time, North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the sea — its eighth missile test of the year
“North Korea conducts missile tests for two reasons. The main one is to advance its military capabilities to support warfighting. The second is to support its political warfare strategy and blackmail diplomacy,” says David Maxwell, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “The tests are likely not in direct response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the regime may assess that with the United States distracted, it can continue to advance its military capabilities without a significant concern for a U.S. response.”
“The single most important concession it seeks is sanctions relief,” says Maxwell. “However, as long as the Biden administration’s Korea policy remains the full implementation of all U.N. Security Council resolutions, then sanctions should not be lifted.”
NORTH KOREA BEGINS TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES AGAIN AFTER MONTHLONG PAUSE
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Calendar
MONDAY | FEBRUARY 28
9:30 a.m. — German Marshall Fund of the United States virtual discussion: “U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” with former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the National Security Council; Mira Rapp-Hooper of the National Security Council; Gabriele Visentin, EU special envoy for the Indo-Pacific; Gunnar Wiegand, managing director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service; Bonnie Glaser, director of the GMFUS Asia Program; Garima Mohan, fellow at the GMFUS Asia Program; and Heather Conley, GMFUS president https://www.gmfus.org/event/us-europe-cooperation-indo-pacific
11 a.m. — Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft online event: “Will Biden’s Upcoming Nuclear Posture Review Make America Safer?” with Sharon Weiner, associate professor at the School of International Service at American University and former program examiner with the National Security Division of the Office of Management and Budget; and Joseph Cirincione, nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute and former professional staff member of the House Armed Services Committee https://quincyinst.org/event/will-bidens-upcoming-nuclear-posture-review
11 a.m. — Jewish Institute for National Security of America virtual discussion: “Iran-Backed Attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Prospects for Regional Air Defense,” with Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East Dana Stroul; retired Israeli Defense Force Maj. Gen. Yaakov Amidror, fellow at JINSA; Kirsten Fontenrose, president of Red Six International; former UAE Armed Forces Col. Adel Hassan Bin Sanqoor; and John Hannah, senior fellow at JINSA https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/
12:30 p.m. — Atlantic Council virtual discussion: “Collective Defense and the Crisis in Europe,” with Royal Netherlands Navy Lt. Adm. Rob Bauer, NATO Military Committee chair https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/collective-defense-and-the-crisis-in-europe/
12:30 p.m. Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street N.W. — George Washington University discussion on “Missed Opportunities in Afghanistan and Upcoming Challenges with Taliban Administration in Terms of Security and Governance,” with Shahmahmood Miakhel, former Afghanistan acting minister of defense, and former governor of Nangrahar and Afghan ambassador to Qatar https://calendar.gwu.edu/missed-opportunities
1 p.m. — American Security Project virtual “Rapid Response Briefing,” on the “War in Ukraine,” with former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register
2 p.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion on the latest developments in Ukraine, Russian President Putin and sanctions on Russia, with Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va. https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live
4 p.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion with French Ambassador to the United States Philippe Etienne on the geopolitical implications of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live
TUESDAY | MARCH 1
10 a.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Committee hearing: “Engagement with Allies and Partners,” with testimony from Mara Karlin, assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities; Jessica Lewis, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings
10 a.m. CLOSED — Senate Foreign Relations Committee CLOSED hearing: “U.S. Hostage Policy,” with testimony from Roger Carstens, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs; and Chris O’Leary, director for hostage recovery fusion cell, Federal Bureau of Investigation https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/us-hostage-policy030122
10 a.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion on the latest cybersecurity concerns regarding Russia and the State of the Union address, with ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. John Katko R-N.Y. https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live
10 a.m. — Woodrow Wilson Center virtual discussion: “Hindsight Up Front: Six Months After the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” with retired Gen. David Petraeus, co-chair of the WWC Global Advisory Council and former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan; John McLeod Scarlett, co-chair of the WWC Global Advisory Council and chairman of SC Strategy Limited; and former U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green, WWC president, director and CEO https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/a/hindsight-front-conversation
10 a.m. — National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations online discussion: “An Emerging Axis: Strategic Trends Between Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, and What it Means for the Middle East,” with David Rundell, former chief of mission at the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia and author of “Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads”; and Michael Gfoeller, retired U.S. foreign service officer with service in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Moscow, Russia https://www.youtube.com/user/NCUSAR
12 p.m. — Association of the United States Army virtual discussion: “Army Climate Strategy,” with Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Paul Farnan; and former Army Undersecretary Patrick Murphy, AUSA senior fellow https://www.ausa.org/events/noon-report-army-climate-strategy-mr-paul-farnan
2 p.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing: “Fiscal Year 2023 Strategic Forces Posture Hearing,” with testimony from Sasha Baker, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Adm. Charles Richard, commander, U.S. Strategic Command; Army Gen. James Dickinson, commander, U.S. Space Command; and Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings
2:30 p.m. — Woodrow Wilson Center virtual discussion: “Russia’s Aggression Toward Ukraine – the British View,” with Michael Tatham, deputy head of mission inthe British Embassy in Washington https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/a/russias-aggression-towards-ukraine-british-view
9 p.m. House Chamber, U.S. Capitol — President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
WEDNESDAY | MARCH 2
10 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies online event: “Rights Revoked: The State of Human Rights in Afghanistan After Six Months of Taliban Rule,” with U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights Rina Amiri; Heather Barr, associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch; and Anne Richard, fellow and Afghanistan coordination lead at Freedom House https://www.csis.org/events/rights-revoked-state-human-rights-afghanistan
10 a.m. — National Endowment for Democracy virtual discussion: “An Offshore Cold War: Forging a Democratic Alliance to Combat Transnational Kleptocracy,” with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Heather Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; Oliver Bullough, author of “Moneyland: Why Thieves & Crooks Now Rule the World & How to Take it Back”; and Damon Wilson, NED president and CEO https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-offshore-cold-war
2 p.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing: “Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Prevention Programs,” with testimony from Bonnie Carroll, president and founder, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors; Dr. Craig Bryan, director, Suicide Prevention Program, hio State University Wexner Medical Center; Dr. Karen Orvis, director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office; Dr. Richard Mooney, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense, health services policy and oversight https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings
2 p.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies press briefing to address the evolving situation in Ukraine, with Andrew Lohsen, fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, CSIS; Caitlin Welsh, director, Global Food Security Program, CSIS; Erol Yayboke, director and senior fellow, Project on Fragility and Mobility, CSIS; Marti Flacks, director and senior fellow, Human Rights Initiative, CSIS; Seth Jones, senior vice president, director, International Security Program, CSIS; Eliot Cohen, Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy, CSIS; and Ben Cahill, senior fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program, CSIS https://www.csis.org/events/press-briefing-ukraine-update
THURSDAY | MARCH 3
9 a.m. — American Enterprise Institute web event, “A conversation with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith,” with Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow, AEI, Kori Schake, director, foreign and defense policy Studies, AEI https://www.aei.org/events/a-conversation
9 a.m. — American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research virtual discussion with House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash. https://www.aei.org/events/a-conversation
10 a.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion on how the United States and Congress should respond to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, with House Intelligence ranking member Mike Turner, R-Ohio https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live
10 a.m. — United States Institute of Peace virtual discussion with Oleksandra Matviychuk, chair of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine; and Asmik Arutyunyan, senior program specialist at the USIP Office of Russia and Europe https://www.usip.org/events/twitter-space-series
10 a.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Subcommittees on Seapower and Projection Forces and Readiness Joint hearing: “State of the Surface Navy,” with testimony from Adm. William Lescher, vice chief of naval operations; and Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings
1 p.m. — Heritage Foundation virtual discussion: “The State of Decision Support Analysis in the DOD,” with former Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist; former Acting Army Secretary John Whitley; and former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Policy Planning Thomas Mahnken, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments https://www.heritage.org/defense/event
FRIDAY | MARCH 4
10 a.m. — U.S. States Institute of Peace virtual discussion on Afghanistan as part of the Twitter Space Series “Protecting Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding,” with Wazhma Frogh, co-founder and director of the Women and Peace Studies Organization; and Belquis Ahmadi, senior program officer for Afghanistan at USIP https://www.usip.org/events/twitter-space-series
11 a.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion “World Stage: Ukraine,” with John Bolton, former U.S. national security adviser https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live
WEDNESDAY | MARCH 9
10 a.m. — Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence virtual event with Audrey Schaffer, director for space policy, National Security Council; and retired Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, explorer chair, Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence. https://go.afa.org
THURSDAY | MARCH 10
10:30 a.m. — Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum, with Barry Pavel, director, Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security; Matthew Kroenig, deputy director, Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security; and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies https://go.afa.org
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
