State Department Press Conference Underway Shortly

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Ned Price is shortly due to brief the press from the Department of State.

• Livestream: https://www.state.gov/todays-briefing-schedule/
• The State Department will be looking for way to throttle the Russian military supply chains after it emerged that multiple components made by US and Western companies were found inside an Iranian drone shot down in Ukraine.
• CNN: "The assessment, which was shared with U.S. government officials in December, shows the limits of the Western sanctions regimes and the challenges the Biden administration faces in trying to shut down Iran’s production of drones. There is no suggestion that any of the companies which had manufactured the drone parts had fallen foul of U.S. sanctions laws."
• White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement yesterday: "We are assessing further steps we can take in terms of export controls to restrict Iran’s access to technologies used in drones."