Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome to our guests.
I'll start with Russia.
Major-General, you talked about defence relationships. You said you weren't going to venture into the political arena. I certainly understand and respect why that's the case, but defence relationships can be changed by political decisions. We're seeing that with the whole question of U.S. support for Ukraine. There's an open question right now in terms of whether this is just political bluster and/or whether the new U.S. administration really means to bring an immediate and quick end to that conflict.
That can happen in many ways. That can happen with a withdrawal of support, as has been hinted at for the last year in the lead-up to their election. If, in fact, the new U.S. administration holds firm on its public statements that this is going to come to a quick end that will mean a withdrawal of support in whole or in part—whether that's military intelligence or whether that's actual armaments that are making their way over to Ukraine—how long can Ukraine survive in its conflict without U.S. support?
I'll start with that and I'll have some supplementals.