US Defense Dept. daily briefing on Ukraine:

Long thread.

https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1500885179140874242

Up on the TASS website within the hour!

LONDON, March 7. /TASS/. Russia is demanding that Ukraine halt its military activity, enshrine neutrality in its Constitution, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognize independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Reuters news agency on Monday.

Russia is ready to halt its military operation "in any moment" if Kiev meets its demands, Peskov emphasized.

"They should make amendments to their constitution according to which Ukraine would reject any aims to enter any bloc. We have also spoken about how they should recognize that Crimea is Russian territory and that they need to recognize that Donetsk and Lugansk are independent states. And that’s it. It will stop in a moment," Peskov told Reuters.

"And they [the Ukrainian side] were told that all this can be stopped in a moment," the Kremlin press secretary added.

New Russian terms for settlement?

Ukraine, Russia foreign ministers to meet 3/10.

Posted without comment.

I read the Taiwan Relations Act about six months ago.

I doubt if anyone can say what, if any, treaty obligations we have to come to the defense of Taiwan if it is invaded. I guess it was purposely written that way.

NY Times: The Race to arm Ukraine

On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning, pallets of rifles, ammunition and other weapons were being loaded onto one of the largest cargo planes in the world, an Antonov AN-124, belonging to the Ukrainian air force. It is an artifact of the Cold War, built and purchased when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.

Now it is being turned back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of a vast airlift that American and European officials describe as a desperate race against time, to get tons of arms into the hands of Ukrainian forces while their supply routes are still open. Scenes like this, reminiscent of the Berlin airlift — the famed race by the Western allies to keep West Berlin supplied with essentials in 1948 and 1949 as the Soviet Union sought to choke it off — are playing out across Europe.

In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities. So far, Russian forces have been so preoccupied in other parts of the country that they have not targeted the arms supply lines, but few think that can last.

But those are only the most visible contributions. Hidden away on bases around Eastern Europe, forces from United States Cyber Command known as “cybermission teams” are in place to interfere with Russia’s digital attacks and communications — but measuring their success rate is difficult, officials say.

Arming Ukraine: 17,000 Anti-Tank Weapons in 6 Days and a Clandestine Cybercorps https://nyti.ms/3vQLGQO

Long, amazing story. This stuff doesn't get out unless approved at a very high level. This isn't a leak. This is an ocean of information the Administration wanted to get to the American people, among others.

Useful to know if your trying to follow the military guys:

Senior Defense official's Sunday night Ukraine assesment.

Medium thread:

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1500599461202083844

Probably long night ahead.