‘GUYS, HOLD ON!’: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging his soldiers and citizens to hold on through the winter as Russian forces continue a desperate attempt to capture Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donbas region that has become a meat grinder for both sides.
Russia is concentrating most of its offensive combat power there, attempting to encircle Ukrainian defenders to produce a victory that is more symbolic than strategic, according to a British intelligence analysis tweeted over the weekend.
At the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday, Avril Haines, U.S. director of national intelligence, said Russia is burning through its ammunition stockpiles, especially precision munitions, at an “extraordinary” rate. The suggestion that there might be any kind of “winter pause” was immediately disputed by a Ukrainian military spokesman, who said yesterday that “frozen ground enables heavy wheeled and tracked vehicles to advance and that Ukrainian forces are preparing such vehicles for winter operations,” according to the Institute for the Study of War.
Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! Austin was on hand and gushed about the strategic bomber, which will form one leg of America’s nuclear triad, after being produced on time and under budget. “The B-21 Raider is the first strategic bomber in more than three decades. It is a testament to America's enduring advantages in ingenuity and innovation.”
The Air Force plans to buy at least 100 B-21s. Six B-21 test aircraft are in various stages of final assembly at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, California, facility. “He's been unable to win on the battlefield, so he's basically turning his ire and his fire on Ukrainian civilians, going after the energy infrastructure, trying to turn off the lights, turn off the heat, turn off the electricity. That's what's going on.
“I'm not going to get into the details of this,” Blinken said. “It would be counterproductive for me to get into the specifics of anything that we're saying or that the Russians are saying and that we're hearing.” 12 p.m. — German Marshall Fund of the United States virtual discussion:"War and the Future of Europe," with Wojciech Przybylski, editor-in-chief of the Visegrad Insight; Goran Buldioski, managing director for Europe and Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations; Michael Meyer-Resende, executive director of Democracy Reporting International; Philipp Fritz, correspondent at Die Welt; and Zsuzsanna Vegh, GMFUS visiting fellow https://www.gmfus.
3 p.m. Pentagon River Entrance — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomes Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Richard Marles 2 p.m.
12:53 p.m. 1750 Independence Ave. S.W. — Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Pearl Harbor, with Jeff Reinbold, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks; and Jane Droppa, chairwoman of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial; and keynote address by Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff https://www.facebook.
10 a.m. 1789 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. — American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research discussion: on"Unpacking the Pentagon's 2022 China Military Power Report," with Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for China Michael Chase; Assistant Defense Secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Ely Ratner; Zack Cooper, AEI senior fellow; and Mackenzie Eaglen, AEI senior fellow https://www.aei.
3 p.m. — American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research event: “Standing Up to China Means Standing with Taiwan, with Sen. Dan Sullivan ; and Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow, AEI https://www.aei.org/events/a-conversation-with-sen-dan-sullivan
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