Two Senior Defense Officials Hold a DOD Background Briefing on Ukraine

Lt. Col. Charlie Dietz: Good morning, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us for today's background briefing for an update on the UDCG. As a reminder, today's call is on background attributed to senior defense officials. Please note that we will call on reporters, so please use the raise hand feature and we'll try to get to as many of your questions as possible in the 30 minutes that we have available. Before we begin, please just remember to keep your phones on mute unless you're asking a question. And with that, I'll turn it over to our first senior defense official, followed by our second, for any opening comments? Senior Defense Official 1: Great. Thanks so much, Charlie. Happy New Year...