Sullivan, however, admitted that the Russian Federation had managed to advance every kilometer to the east, but it came at a high price.
Russian troops failed to achieve strategic objectives in the war against Ukraine, while major cities remained. This was stated in a briefing by US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
“Russia has largely failed to achieve its strategic goals in Ukraine. Its strategic goal is to take the capital of Kyiv to end Ukraine as a country, remove the Ukrainian identity and integrate Ukraine into Russia. Here they failed,” he said. aniya.
According to Sullivan, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and the major cities of Ukraine are holding. He also added that most of the country is under Ukrainian control, which the Ukrainian military has efficiently and courageously defended with the support of the United States and other partners.
“So if you step back and look at the trajectory of this conflict, at what Putin intended to do, then he failed to do it. He will continue to fail to achieve the ultimate goals because of the courage of the Ukrainian people,” he said. of adviser.Biden.
At the same time, he acknowledged that the Russian Federation had managed to advance kilometer after kilometer to the east, but it came at a high price due to Ukrainian military actions and sanctions in the West.
Sullivan also noted that the United States interacts with Ukrainians almost daily on issues of suppressing the Russian offensive and returning to temporarily occupied territories.
According to him, Washington aims to put Ukraine in the strongest position on the battlefield and at the negotiating table when it comes to diplomacy.
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It was previously reported that Western countries seek to force Russia to sit at the negotiating table in order to force it into a world acceptable to them.
Source: korrespondent
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