2023-05-26 01:22:00
Dmitry Medvedev (archive from Archyde.com)
Russia and Ukraine
This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry MedvedevFriday, that the Ukrainian conflict will last for a period of up to decades.
Medvedev said in an interview with reporters during a visit to Vietnam: “I think that this conflict will last, perhaps for decades. This is a new reality and new living conditions,” according to Russian media.
He also stressed that “as long as the Ukrainian authority exists, there will be, for example, 3 years of armistice, and two years of conflict, and this will be repeated, so the Nazi regime in Kiev must be eliminated.”
“You will not achieve a military victory.”
These statements come as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army Gen. Mark Milley Thursday that Russia will not achieve a military victory in Ukraine, adding that it is also unlikely that all Russian forces will be defeated anytime soon.
He told reporters at the Pentagon, at the end of a virtual meeting with dozens of countries supporting Ukraine, that “Russia will not win this war militarily,” according to AFP.
‘The fight will continue’
He also made it clear that Russia’s basic strategic goals, including the overthrow of the government in Kiev, “cannot be achieved militarily, and will not be achieved.”
However, he revealed at the same time that hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers in Ukraine make Kiev’s effort to regain control of all of its territory unlikely “in the near term.”
He also added, “This means that the fighting will continue and it will be bloody and difficult. At some point, the two sides will negotiate a settlement or reach a military outcome.”
About 65 billion dollars
It is noteworthy that the United States led the pressure for international support for Ukraine, and hastened to form an alliance to support Kiev after the Russian military operation in February 2022 and coordinate aid from dozens of countries.
In total, Ukraine’s backers have provided about $65 billion in military aid, according to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
It is noteworthy that Russia has always warned the West against the step of supplying weapons to Ukraine, while tensions have escalated in an unprecedented way between it and the West.
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