In the meantime, we’re going to continue to make sure that Ukraine has the weapons and capabilities that it needs to defend itself,
[It ... It’s] not clear to us exactly how much they’re going to do, I mean how many forces they’re going to put there or what their intentions are, or what they’re going to do about what the Ukrainians are doing,
We'll have a clearer picture in the weeks ahead,
It complicates the policy the more they progress into Russia without defined terms,
The use of U.S. weapons in Kursk, in Ukraine or anywhere else - for us - is an act of escalation and it will have serious consequences, we are being absolutely blunt about this with our U.S. colleagues. They know our opposition,
The Biden administration sees that they've been able to manage the escalation ladder extremely effectively since the outset of the war,
We have been very, very clear and consistent that we really want to see Ukraine focus on defending themselves against this aggression inside of course their borders,
It's not unusual for them to do things without letting us know."
We don't encourage and we don't enable attacks outside of Ukraine except for in those exigent circumstances where we believe just over the border they're facing some imminent threats,
We make clear during the gifting process that equipment is to be used in line with international law,
It’s creating a real dilemma for Putin,
It has destroyed the myth of escalation, and it created an additional argument to lift this ban on the use of American missiles in the territory of Russia,
The coming days will show whether there are enough reserves to maintain this pressure,
The Ukrainian Armed Forces only targets military infrastructure,
Russia has relocated some of its units from both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine’s south,
Unfortunately, Ukraine does not have sufficient capabilities to carry out long-range strikes with the weapons it has to defend itself against this terror,
We’re trying to figure out exactly what they are doing and the goal here and it’s still not 100% clear,
We have no involvement. We’ll continue to have conversations with the Ukrainians about their approach but it is really for them to speak to,