Reporters Grill Pentagon’s Sabrina Singh Over Ukraine Using US Weapons To Strike Inside Russia

and then separately can you confirm that the US provided weapons to Ukraine have been that that the Biden Administration is now allowed to be used to strike inside Russia have indeed struck inside Russia so I’ve seen the reports of that um I can’t confirm that right now I’d have to refer you to the ukrainians to speak to their operations and any any uh weapons used um in in the I think you’re referring to in the har region um I just don’t have anything more for you on that Carla hey thanks um just some clarification I I think that John Kirby had said that there was confusion on the ukrainians shooting into Russian territory and he said that even aircraft are not if they’re not necessarily in Ukrainian airspace that the ukrainians had always been able to shoot at those aircraft so just to get some clarification on that has it always been acceptable for ukrainians to fire into Russian airspace was it strictly Russian territory that they were told not to fire into give us some clarification on that uh the policy change that you’re referring to and that was announced last week was more about um the crossfire uh within the harke region um when it comes to air defenses and the secretary spoke about this air defense is something that we continue to um that we know is a priority for the ukrainians um look I’m not going to go into every specific incident um of when the ukrainians you know have engaged whether it be Russian aircraft or or um other capabilities what I can tell you is that we know that is a threat that they continue to face um and that’s something that we continue to work with the ukrainians to make sure that they have the capabilities that they need to defend themselves okay and I just want to follow up to us I just want to make sure I understand this because John Kirby said there’s never been a restriction on the ukrainians shooting down hostile aircraft even if those aircraft are not necessarily in Ukrainian airspace so does that mean that ukrainians can shoot anywhere not just the the region that was changed where the policy was changed they can shoot anywhere in Russian airspace if there is a hostile aircraft heading toward Ukraine yeah Carla I appreciate the question I’m not gonna uh I have nothing to contradict what uh Mr Kirby said previously um air defense is something that we know is a priority for the ukrainians that’s why we’ve given them what we have to be able to defend themselves um Russian aircraft Russian air threats we are well aware that is something that um continues to threaten Ukrainian cities and towns um I’m just not going to get into more specifics what we have said and what we continue to say is that um right now our our policy is that we don’t support uh the use of aams for long you know deep strikes within Russia um but I just don’t have more to add when it comes to anything additional when it comes to aircraft

During a Pentagon press briefing, Deputy Pentagon Spokesperson Sabrina Singh over the use of US weapons to carry out strikes inside of Russia.

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  3. We don’t seem to care yet Isreal does with our weapons they don’t care. Ukraine actually does care it’s insane we handicap people fighting for their country. Disgraceful

  7. They’ve been lobbing 155 into Belgorod for ever.

    If you don’t support something Don’t give the means to do it ffs

  10. How long before the US news media gives up carrying water for the Biden Administration on Ukraine? It took about five years in the Vietnam War before the US news media stopped parroting President Johnson and began to actually report the truth, no matter how inconvenient. We are now 2.5 years into this debacle—–I guess CNN/BBC and all the rest like Forbes only halfway through shoveling the mountain of Biden Administration dung at us expecting us to believe it….. Sigh….

  13. A Russian Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar is Not an "Air Defense Radar". Why did they waste a missile on it? Who is running the show???

  14. US military ship with weapons were filter thru Germany to go to Ukraine, this is 30 years plan to have Ukraine join NATO…then NATO along with US can move closer to Russia’s boundary….

  19. "We give you weapons, on our behalf. You use our weapons wherever you feel like using or wherever we tell you to using it. We then sit back and enjoy the fight from afar. Aren't we noble!"

    The United States Government armed, trained and funded alQaeda Mujahadeen Taliban in the 80's. Osama Bin Laden was a CIA asset! Now the U.S. is arming and funding Neo-Nazi corrupt regime in Ukraine!

  21. "President Biden, what if we provoke Russia into attacking America?"

    Biden: "Don't worry, I'll be okay. I have a bunker, food, protection-"

    "But what about the rest of us?"

    Biden: "What about the rest of you?"

  26. When Biden heard what Trump says he's going to bomb Russia if he is the president, his military advisers advise Biden to allow the Ukraine to strike inside Russia using its' atacm and himars. they're taking Trumps idea as their own and are falling into a trap.

  27. Biden/Ukraine COLLUSION is getting America in A BAD situation. Putin takes it as a "signal" of Biden's ready for a war between USA & Russia. Singh needs to think TWICE! Although we know Ukraine is operating the "deep state".

  32. From Russian standpoint, all of the fighting is already happening on "Russian territory" since they "annexed" Ukrainian regions, so nothing really changed.

  33. Weapons these days are COMLUTERS, & THE BATTLEGROUNDS ARE IN CYBER SPACE !

    *didn't you see
    ( LIVE FREE OR DIE Hard ? )

    Did you see the one about the
    "FIRE SALE", ATTACK on the UKRAINE ?

    The attack started on Sunday October 25th, just as state-wide elections were going on in Ukraine (coincidence?). While several hacktivist groups tried to take credit for the attack, there is not enough (conclusive) evidence to pinpoint it to a specific party  – we’ll leave this to those “special services” and politicians to figure that one out.

    As I mentioned, the attack was a covert multi-stage infection of a company’s infrastructure hitting one target after another, causing computers to restart and become unbootable. At this stage, two things seemed obvious: we were dealing with targeted cyber-attack, perhaps with political motives and aimed at disruption of an entire industry. However, investigation has brought up a plethora of details that challenge the initial statement…

    ATTACK SYMPTOMS AND INITIAL IMPRESSION

    While we wait for some verification of official results with some 3-letter agencies we are working with, as well as dedicated forensics & security malware reverse engineers and full disclosure will be done by a local CERT, I’ll share how things looked from the front lines.

    Targets were multiple Microsoft Windows platforms, without version or function dependencies, including Active Directory Domain Controllers, Desktops, video-editing workstations, accounting computers etc.

    Typical observable behavior of infected assets was an Unexpected Shutdown of Operating System after which system became unbootable: MBR was missing (I wonder why…). A second symptom was a 100% fill-up of the system partition, which as we know makes system behave abnormally and per Microsoft’s recommendation “Asks to contact a System Administrator”.  From internal security team’s perspective it looked like random Windows machines fully crash without any obvious reasons or relationships. A third and no less important symptom was all colleagues in same industry calling up each other and reporting those same first 2 symptoms…

    A Few things were clear for me at this point:

    It was a targeted attack, thoroughly planned and orchestrated way ahead of the date it was actually set in motion.

    This is not a 0-day vulnerability exploitation. Attack is multi-stage involving either social engineering and insiders or a multi-layer, modular and synchronized system of weaponization, delivery and command and control, hello to Cyber Kill Chain model 😉

    The timing of the attack is not random: it happened exactly on the day of local state elections aimed either at disruption of elections media coverage (which never happened) or the date was used as a decoy to distract from main attack’s purpose. This also could be a one hell of a presentation of new cyber weapon’s capabilities on a countrywide scale.

    I recommended my colleagues to brace themselves, put any doubts aside and focus on 2 things: reduction of collateral damage and maximum evidence collection. We tried to get anything we can: PCAP’s, snapshots, screenshots, windows logs, SIEM & IPS alerts, memory dumps and of course malware sample. Obviously traditional anti-virus and other active defense systems were silent. During first 24 hours of the attack we were able to obtain a virus called “ololo.exe” and uploaded it to VirusTotal, just to find out that not a single Anti-Virus was aware of this malware.  To be continued with results of malware reverse analysis and results of initial investigation…

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