The Department of Defense:

I’m going to try to quick through this because I’ve got some commitments I’ve got to do in just a little bit, so I’ll try to keep this as brief as I can. But they’re — it’s been a long time since we did want one of these, so I do have some stuff I want to get through.

We are now on day 63, and on day 63 we can report that there’s been more than 1,900 missile launches since the beginning of the invasion. Most of the missile launches and, quite frankly, fixed-wing strikes on Ukraine continue to be happening in Mariupol and in the Joint Force operation area, basically, the Donbas region. That’s really where the preponderance of strike activity continues to occur.

Also on day 63, we can report that there are now 92 operational battalion tactical groups from the Russians inside Ukraine, so an increase over the last time you and I had a chance to talk. We would assess that Russian forces are making slow and uneven and, frankly, we would describe it as incremental progress in the Donbas. Some advances east of Izyum and to the south a little bit, but there has been continued pushback by the Ukrainians since, so there’s a lot of, still, back-and-forth in the Donbas in terms of territory gained and/or lost by, frankly, both sides. So not a huge difference in the picture on the ground in the Donbas.

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