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Senior Defense and Senior Military Official Hold a DoD Background Briefing on Ukraine

MAJOR GENERAL PAT RYDER: All right. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us for today's background briefing and update on the situation in Ukraine. As a reminder, today's call is on background attributable to a senior defense official and a senior military official. Please note, I will call on reporters. We'll try to get to as many of your questions as possible in the time we have available. And before we begin, I would ask that you please keep your phones on mute unless you're asking a question. And with that, I'll turn it over to our senior defense official, followed by our senior military official, for any opening comments. SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Hi, everyone. Good...