The US chief of staff, General Mark Milley, has stated that not believe Ukraine will win the war this year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said he wants to push the entire Russian military out of the country. A tall order, General Milley said in an interview with the news site Defense One.
The US chief of staff, Mark Milley, said he did not think Ukraine would win the war this year.
“I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying it’s a very complicated task,” the chief of staff said, pointing to hundreds of thousands of Russians occupying Ukraine’s territory.
Kyiv sees the withdrawal of the Russian army as the only condition for peace. A ceasefire would be unacceptable because Russia would then still have control over parts of Ukraine.
The United States is one of Ukraine’s main allies in its fight against the Russian invasion, which has lasted for more than a year, and has allocated billions of euros in aid.
The delivery of long-range ATACMS-type missiles is not planned, however, Milley said. “We have relatively few ATACMS missiles and we have to make sure we maintain our own ammunition stocks.”
Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Defence said in its daily update on the war that the Russian winter offensive was failing.
London’s focus on Saturday is on Russian Chief of Staff Valeri Guerassimov, who took command of the “special military operation” in Ukraine in January. His tenure has been characterised by an effort to launch a general winter offensive in a bid to extend Russian control over the entire Donbas region.
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“Eighty days later, it is increasingly clear that this project has failed,” the ministry’s statement said. “On several axes of the Donbas front, Russian forces have made only marginal gains at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties, largely squandering the temporary manpower advantage they gained from the autumn’s ‘partial mobilisation’.”
Moscow calls the daily intelligence update released by the British Ministry of Defence via Twitter disinformation.
