'In terms of what Russia sought to achieve, what Putin sought to achieve, they've already failed,' Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
, while also stressing that the country's counteroffensive is still in its early stages.
"In terms of what Russia sought to achieve, what Putin sought to achieve, they've already failed," Blinken said."They've already lost. The objective was to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia. That failed a long time ago." A child holds a Ukrainian flag over a Russian tank on display in Kyiv. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reported on Sunday that Ukraine's counteroffensive had helped it retake half of the territory occupied by Russia.He continued:"Now Ukraine is in a battle to get back more of the land that Russia seized from it. It's already taken back about 50 percent of what was initially seized. Now they're in a very hard fight to take back more.
Overall, Blinken expressed optimism for Ukraine's prospects moving forward with the counteroffensive and its goal of reclaiming occupied territories, while also admitting that the task. While the Ukrainian military was able to launch the operation strong, dwindling munitions and Russian minefields have slowed its progress considerably. The secretary of state estimated that the process could continue for the next"several months.
"The Russians have put in place strong defenses, but I'm convinced that with the equipment and support they've received now from more than 50 countries, with the training that their forces have gotten, and many of the forces who've gotten that training have not yet been put fully into this fight, and maybe more than anything else, with the fact that unlike the Russians, Ukrainians are fighting for their land, for their future, for their country, for their freedom," Blinken...
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