Pentagon officials to face questions on the size, scope, and speed of US arms shipments to aid Ukraine

In announcing another tranche of planned arms shipments, $300 million worth, the Pentagon insisted everything possible is being done to get the weapons into the hands of the Ukrainian defenders without delay. “Everything we’re doing with respect to Ukraine is being expedited, everything,” a senior defense official told reporters yesterday.

Later, at a Pentagon briefing, press secretary John Kirby said U.S. weapons deliveries were arriving almost daily — one over the weekend and another scheduled to arrive by today. “We’re prioritizing the kinds of capabilities in those shipments that we know the Ukrainians need the most — Javelins, Stingers, UAVs. So, all that’s being prioritized,” he said. “Our goal is, again, I said it before, as fast as we can, as much as we can, and just keep it going to make sure that the Ukrainians can continue to defend themselves.”

‘WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK’: At the White House, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the administration is “working around the clock,” and material is arriving “at an unprecedented pace.”

“The latest package includes laser-guided rocket systems, Puma unmanned aerial systems, armored High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, and more,” said Sullivan, who cited the critical need for anti-ship missiles that can sink Russian ships in the Black Sea, where Russia appears to be preparing for an assault on the strategically critical port of Odesa.

“President Biden went to Brussels to talk to key allies 11 days ago about how to get coastal defense systems to Ukraine, because there is not, at the moment, a good U.S. option,” he said at a White House briefing. “Last week, the U.K. announced at the close of its donor conference that coastal defense systems would be provided to the Ukrainians.”

TWO-THIRDS OF RUSSIAN TROOPS NEAR KYIV ARE RETREATING, LIKELY TO BE REDEPLOYED

RUSSIA REGROUPING, REVISING AIMS: The new infusion of Western weapons could be a critical factor in maintaining Ukraine’s momentum against the beleaguered Russian ground forces, which are being reconstituted and resupplied, with the apparent intent of redeploying to the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian troops have battled Russian-backed separatists for eight years.

“We believe that Russia is revising its war aims. Russia is repositioning its forces to concentrate its offensive operations in eastern and parts of southern Ukraine, rather than target most of the territory,” said Sullivan. “All indications are that Russia will seek to surround and overwhelm Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.”

“The next stage of this conflict may very well be protracted. We should be under no illusions,” Sullivan said. “Moscow will likely continue to launch air and missile strikes across the rest of the country to cause military and economic damage — and, frankly, to cause terror, including against cities like Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Lviv.”

RUSSIA LIKELY PREPARING ‘TO DEPLOY DOZENS OF ADDITIONAL’ BATTALIONS, SULLIVAN SAYS

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HAPPENING TODAY: Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on his way to Brussels, Belgium, for another urgent meeting of NATO foreign ministers and ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations to consult over the response to reports of atrocities and war crimes allegedly carried out by Russian and Chechen soldiers in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is scheduled to brief reporters at 8 a.m. Washington time ahead of tomorrow’s in-person meeting of foreign ministers. The press conference will be streamed live at nato.int.

ALSO TODAY: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to call for a special Nuremberg-style tribunal to investigate and prosecute war crimes when he addresses the U.N. Security Council remotely from Ukraine at 10 a.m.

“With Russia as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, it would be difficult to imagine that they would not attempt to exercise their veto to block something,” said Sullivan. “But there have been creative solutions to the question of accountability in the past.”

“There has to be accountability for these war crimes. That accountability has to be felt at every level of the Russian system, and the United States will work with the international community to ensure that accountability is applied at the appropriate time.”

Before Zelensky speaks, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths will brief the U.N. body. Griffiths was in Moscow yesterday, trying to broker a ceasefire.

ZELENSKY WARNS OF ATROCITIES WORSE THAN BUCHA IN UKRAINIAN TOWN OF BORODYANKA, OTHER CITIES

‘HE IS A WAR CRIMINAL’: President Joe Biden has again labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and called for him to be put on trial after images from Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv occupied for several weeks by Russian troops, showed evidence of brutal executions, rapes, and torture of civilians.

“I have one comment to make before I start the day. You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal. Well, the truth of the matter — you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him — he is a war criminal,” Biden told reporters yesterday. “This guy is brutal. And what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it.”

Biden said he would be seeking yet more sanctions but stopped short of labeling the atrocities genocide, which is defined as a systematic attempt to eliminate an entire national or ethnic group. Asked if he agreed with Zelensky that Russia’s wanton killing of civilians and disregard for the law of armed conflict amounted to genocide, Biden replied, “No, I think it is a war crime.”

WHITE HOUSE SAYS ‘NOT THE TIME FOR COMPLACENCY’ AS RUSSIA REDEFINES WAR AIMS

SOMETHING GOP LAWMAKERS AGREE WITH BIDEN ON: “I totally agree with President Biden that Putin should be tried as a war criminal for the atrocities committed in Bucha and other areas in Ukraine,” said South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a frequent Biden critic. “There can be no ‘forgive and forget’ when it comes to Putin. We must hold him accountable for the Rule of Law to mean anything.”

“No country can remain neutral in the face of such evil. These horrific images are a shock to the global conscience and demand further action to hold Vladimir Putin’s regime and Russia’s invading forces accountable for their war crimes,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “That includes additional punishing sanctions against the Kremlin and an immediate increase in the flow of weapons to the Ukrainian forces bravely defending their countrymen from Putin’s unprovoked full-scale invasion. The world cannot wait for the next atrocity to act decisively.”

‘DENY, DENY, DENY, LIE, LIE, LIE’: Meanwhile, Russia is claiming the evidence of atrocities in Bucha and other places is staged, and the eyewitness reports from terrorized Ukrainian citizens are lies that are part of a Western propaganda campaign to smear Moscow.

“What happened in Bucha is exactly a false flag attack by the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors,” said Russia’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia in a press conference.

In Moscow, where he was meeting with Griffiths, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the gruesome images from Bucha “a show” that was “staged” after Russian troops departed.

“All Russian service personnel left the town on March 30, 2022. On March 31, 2022, the mayor of Bucha made an official statement that everything was all right there,” Lavrov said. “Two days later, we saw the ‘show,’ organized on the town’s streets, and they are now trying to use it for anti-Russia purposes.”

“That’s right out of the Russian playbook,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby during an appearance on Fox. “Deny, deny, deny, lie, lie, lie.”

“We said even before this invasion that the Russians were going to be very brutal in the way they effect their military operations and conduct themselves inside Ukraine. And, sadly, we were right about that. That’s proven to be the case,” Kirby told Fox’s Neil Cavuto. “We have said now for a couple of weeks that we had clear evidence that the Russians were committing war crimes. This is a piece of that, as devastating, disgusting, and sickening as it is.”

BUCHA MASSACRE STOKES PRESSURE FOR MORE WEAPONS AND SANCTIONS

JAVELIN’S NEWEST FRIEND — THE TANK-BUSTING SWITCHBLADE: When it was revealed that the U.S. was sending Ukraine 100 of its latest backpack mini-drones, the Switchblade 300 made by AeroVironment Inc, veteran Bloomberg reporter Tony Capaccio kept asking the Pentagon why it wasn’t sending a more powerful version, the Switchblade 600, which has the ability to take out a tank.

This morning, Capaccio reports the latest weapons package put together by the Pentagon includes 10 of the newest model Switchblade drones armed with tank-busting warheads.

“The new 50-pound model, produced by the Simi Valley, California-based company can fly more than 24 miles (39 kilometers) and loiter 40 minutes before attacking with an anti-armor warhead,” Bloomberg reports. “The drone operator uses a tablet-based touchscreen fire-control system with the option to pilot the loitering missile manually.”

BIDEN’S ‘INADEQUATE’ DEFENSE BUDGET: At this morning’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley can expect to get an earful from the Republicans who are united in denouncing the Biden defense budget as wholly inadequate.

“Every Republican member of the SASC joined U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe R-Okla., and U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., ranking members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, urging President Biden to increase the defense budget by 5% above inflation to meet growing threats to U.S. national security,” said a statement released before the hearing. “President Biden’s defense budget provides just 1.5% real growth using an inflation estimate Sen. Inhofe described as ‘almost certainly low.’”

INDUSTRY WATCH: The State Department has approved the sale of eight F-16s to NATO ally Bulgaria.

The sale is valued at $1.673 billion and would add four F-16C and four F-16D model planes to the Bulgarian Air Force, which is in the process of modernizing its combat fighter jet fleet. Bulgaria is one of the former Soviet states that has the MiG fighter jets that Ukraine wants.

“The proposed sale will improve Bulgaria’s capability to meet current and future threats by enabling the Bulgarian Air Force to deploy modern fighter aircraft routinely in the Black Sea region,” the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a press release. “The acquisition of these aircraft would provide Bulgaria a NATO interoperable platform and allow the Bulgarian Air Force to operate more frequently alongside other regional F-16 operators, promoting common doctrine and operations.”

The principal contractor will be Lockheed Martin, Greenville, South Carolina.

RELIEVED OF COMMAND: The Navy has relieved a Navy captain over his handling of a fuel leak in Hawaii that contaminated the drinking water of thousands of military families.

Capt. Albert Lee Hornyak was relieved of command “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to perform his duties following a series of leadership and oversight failures at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility,” a Navy press release said last night.

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Calendar

TUESDAY | APRIL 5

8 a.m. Brussels, Belgium — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg briefs reporters at NATO headquarters ahead of Wednesday’s in-person meeting of NATO foreign ministers https://www.nato.int/nato

9 a.m. 1740 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. — Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies discussion: “Germany and the U.S.: What’s Next for the Transatlantic Alliance?” with German Ambassador to the U.S. Emily Haber https://sais.jhu.edu/campus-events

9 a.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion with Ukraine Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alex Bornyakov on “his country’s efforts to pressure tech companies to come to Ukraine’s aid and wage what is being called the world’s first ‘crypto war.'” https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live

9:30 a.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Committee hearing: “Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Budget Request” with testimony from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings

9:30 a.m. G-50 Dirksen — Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the posture of U.S. Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2023 and the Future Years Defense Program, with Christopher Maier, assistant Defense secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict; Army Gen. Richard Clarke, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command; and Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service http://www.armed-services.senate.gov

10 a.m. 2172 Rayburn — House Foreign Affairs Committee markup of legislation to prohibit participation of the Russian Federation in the G7; the “Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act”; the “Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act”; H.R.923, the “Georgia Support Act”; and H.Res.833, Expressing support for Moldova’s democracy, independence, and territorial integrity and strengthening United States and Moldova relations. http://foreignaffairs.house.gov https://www.youtube.com/watch

10 a.m. — Foundation for Defense of Democracies virtual discussion: “Disrupting China’s Military-Academic Complex,” with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Bonnie Glick, director of the Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University; retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation; Anna Puglisi, director of Biotechnology Programs and senior fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Craig Singleton, FDD senior fellow; and Phelim Kine, Washington-based China correspondent for Politico https://www.fdd.org/events

10 a.m. — Woodrow Wilson Center Middle East Program virtual discussion:” “The Future of Syria: ISIS, the Iranians, and the Displaced Millions,” with Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East Dana Stroul; Joby Warrick, national security correspondent at the Washington Post; Oula Alrifai, assistant vice president of field and constituencies at the National Immigration Forum; and former State Department Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS James Jeffrey, chair of the WWC Middle East Program https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event

12 p.m. — Foreign Policy virtual discussion: “Ukraine’s Humanitarian Crisis,” with David Miliband, president and CEO of International Rescue Committee; and Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/live

12 p.m. — New America virtual discussion on a new report: “America’s Endless Counterterrorism War in Yemen: A Strategic Assessment,” with author David Sterman, senior policy analyst at New America’s International Security Program; Gregory Johnsen, nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy; and Alexandra Stark, senior researcher at New America’s Political Reform Program https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/events

12 p.m. — Hudson Institute virtual discussion: “A New Era for Europe?” with Reinhard Butikofer, German member of the European Parliament and vice-chair of the European Greens/Free Alliance Party https://www.hudson.org/events/2096-virtual-event-a-new-era-for-europe

2 p.m. — U.S. Institute of Peace virtual discussion: “What Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Means for the Indo-Pacific,” Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; and Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio https://www.usip.org/events/what-russias-invasion-ukraine-means-indo-pacific

3 p.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Hearing: “Operations in Cyberspace and Building Cyber Capabilities Across the Department of Defense,” with testimony from John Plumb, incoming principal cyber adviser to the secretary of defense; and Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings

12 p.m. — Association of the U.S. Army “Noon Report” webinar, with James Helis, director, Army Resilience Directorate. https://info.ausa.org/e/784783/USA-Noon-Report

WEDNESDAY | APRIL 6

8 a.m. — NATO headquarters, Brussels — Day 1 of an in-person meeting of NATO foreign ministers chaired by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news

12 p.m. — Hudson Institute virtual discussion: “China, Technology, and Mass Surveillance,” with Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn. https://www.hudson.org/events/2094-virtual-event-china-technology

2 p.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Hearing: “Fiscal Year 2023 Strategic Forces National Security Space Programs,” with testimony from John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy; Air Force Lt. Gen. Guetlein, commander, U.S. Space System Command; Tonya Wilkerson, deputy director, National Geospatial Agency; Christopher Scolese, director, National Reconnaissance Office; and Jon Ludwigson, director, Contracting and National Security Acquisitions, Government Accountability Office https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings

3 p.m. — Washington Post Live virtual discussion: “Why Ukraine should have been in the European Union and NATO a long time ago,” with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live

THURSDAY | APRIL 7

1:30 a.m. NATO headquarters, Brussels — Day 2 of an in-person meeting of NATO foreign ministers, a special session including ministers from Australia, Finland, Georgia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Sweden, Ukraine, the European Union and the European Commission. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will brief reporters at the conclusion of the meeting https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news

8:30 a.m. Burlington, Massachusetts — National Defense Industrial Association New England Chapter annual cyber event, “Zero Trust & CMMC 2.0: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” with Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass.; Brian Hermann, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Cybersecurity & Analytics Directorate; and Stacy Bostjanick, CMMC director and chief of implementation and policy in the Office of the Defense Department CIO https://ndianewengland.org/index.php/event

9 a.m. — Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum event with David Trachtenberg, vice president, National Institute for Public Policy https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register

9:30 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion: “Commercial Wireless Networks and National Defense: Emerging Requirements, Challenges, and Opportunities,” with Terry Halvorsen, general manager for client solutions and development leader at IBM’s U.S. Federal and Public Sector; Callie Field, president of T-Mobile’s Business Group; and Maj. Gen. Robert Wheeler, deputy chief information officer for command, control, communications and computers and information infrastructure capabilities at the Defense Department https://www.csis.org/events/commercial-wireless-networks

10 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion: “North Korea’s latest missile threat,” with Sydney Seiler, national intelligence officer for North Korea at the National Intelligence Council https://www.csis.org/events/capital-cable-45-sydney-seiler

10 a.m. — Heritage Foundation virtual discussion: “The Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Party Congress: What to Expect and the Implications for Washington,” with Joseph Fewsmith III, professor of international relations and political science at Boston University; Willy Wo-Lap Lam, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation; and Michael Cunningham, visiting fellow at the Heritage Asian Studies Center https://www.heritage.org/asia/event/the-ccps-20th-party-congress

12 p.m. — New America virtual discussion: “Targeting Putin’s Wallets: Exploring the Impact of Sanctions on Russian Oligarchs,” with Brian O’Toole, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center; Luke Harding, foreign correspondent at the Guardian; and Candace Rondeaux, senior fellow at Arizona State University’s Center on the Future of War https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/events/targeting-putins-wallets

2:30 p.m. 1030 15th Street N.W. — Atlantic Council virtual discussion: “Managing strategic competition to avoid a U.S.-China war,” with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, president and CEO of the Asia Society and author of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the U.S. and Xi Jinping’s China https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/managing-strategic-competition

FRIDAY | APRIL 8

8:30 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence in a Global Context,” with Brad Smith, president and vice chair at the Microsoft Corporation; Julie Sweet, chair and CEO at Accenture; Gregory Allen, director of strategy and policy at the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center; Mignon Clyburn, former commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission; and Helen Toner, director of strategy at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology https://www.csis.org/events/responsible-ai-global-context

8:30 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion: “Strategic Japan 2022: Competition in New Domains,” with Tatsushi Amano, director general at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation’s Strategic Research Department; Mihoko Matsubara, chief cybersecurity strategist at the NTT Corporation; Fukunari Kimura, professor at Keio University; and Sugio Takahashi, head of the National Institute for Defense Studies’ Defense Policy Division https://www.csis.org/events/strategic-japan-2022-competition-new-domains

10 a.m. Chicago, Illinois — The Atlantic and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics virtual conference: “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy,” with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., participates in a discussion on “Targeted by Lies: How Disinformation Spurs Political Violence” https://www.theatlantic.com/live/disinformation-democracy

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby, dismissing Russian claims that evidence of war crimes in Ukraine was faked.