The Pentagon chief has said Vladimir Putin has not achieved a single goal in a thousand days of full-scale war against Ukraine.
The US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Putin’s goals in 2022 was to “liberate” the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast to “demilitarize and denazify” Ukraine and take the capital city of Kyiv, but the Russian leader has so far failed.
The Kyiv Independent reported, after failing those objectives Putin then said Russia’s “main goal” is now to capture all of the Luhansk and the Donbas area.
Austin said, “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t flee. Kyiv didn’t fall. And Ukraine didn’t fold.”
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The Pentagon chief said Russian troops and the citizens as a result have paid a “a staggering price for Putin’s imperial folly.”
Since Putin started all-out war against Ukraine Russia has lost almost 700,000 troops who have either been killed, injured, fled or have been captured and Moscow has spent over $200 billion in the war and lost billions more in destroyed military equipment.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that since the war started on 24 February, 2022 Russia has lost a staggering 697,680 soldiers, and over the past 24 hours 1,270 were killed in action.
The US Defense Secretary warned that this a preview of “a world built by tyrants and thugs” amid Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
He then issued a stern warning, “So we face a hinge in history.
“If Ukraine falls under Putin’s boot, all of Europe will fall under Putin’s shadow.”
On Saturday the Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has warned Ukraine is facing their “most powerful” against Russian and North Korean forces since the start of all-out war.
He said, “Active hostilities that continue in certain areas require constant renewal of the resources of Ukrainian units.”
Syrskyi held a meeting with a delegation from the Czech Armed Forces, led by Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Karel Řehka, Syrskyi said, “Currently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding back one of the most powerful Russian offensives since the full-scale invasion began.”
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