Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's good to see you again, Mr. Ruff. We worked together not too long ago.
To answer the question, the Unifier mission was a training mission. It was a training mission that started in 2015, as you are well aware, to train Ukrainians to prepare for such an eventuality. It not being a combat mission, there was a certain level of risk that we were prepared to take with our troops, based on the intelligence we had at the time. We have to really thank the intelligence community for its effort over the last three months, for the cueing we had, for the intelligence we had, and for what we understood Putin's plans to be, including some intelligence that air attacks were imminent.
It was prudent to return our troops, initially to Western Ukraine to stay in country as long as they could. The last few elements of our troops left the morning of the attack. So we had great intelligence throughout, and it was a calculated decision.