Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky shook hands with Joe Biden’s Foreign Minister Antony Blinken. Photo: EFE
Entering its third month, the war between russia and ukraine began Monday with more political and diplomatic demonstrations than military actions, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon leader Lloyd Austin visiting kyiv to meet with Zelenski, on Sunday.
After that meeting, Austin revealed that the purpose of the United States was “weaken Russia so that it does not attack its neighbors.”
On his return to Poland, from kyiv by train, Austin declared about Ukrainians that “the first thing to win is to believe you can win. And they they are convinced they can win“.
“They can win if they have good equipmentthe right support, “he added.
“We want to see Russia weaken to the point where it can’t do the kinds of things it did by invading Ukraine.”
Lloyd Austin
US Secretary of Defense
The top U.S. defense official said Russia had experienced huge military losses in Ukraine, including “many of its troops,” and the Pentagon is working to ensure Russia no capacity to “multiply that ability very rapidly.”
after the visit dangerous and secret in the Ukrainian capitalIn kyiv, Austin said there would be a more detailed discussion of what Ukraine would need to prevail against Russia at a meeting in Germany on Tuesday. “We want to see Russia weakened to the point that he can’t do the kinds of things he did by invading Ukraine, ”he said.
In the two months since the war began, the Biden administration has risen continuous military aid and, at the same time, imposed broader sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s economy.
Lloyd Austin (left), Volodimir Zelensky and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in kyiv. Photo: AP
The assertion of senior U.S. defense officials that the United States wants downgrade the russian war machine reflection an increasingly powerful approach of the Biden administration.
Austin, who gave his remarks at a brief news conference on the Polish-Ukrainian border, was accompanied by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, who said Russia had failed in its goal of destroying the Ukrainian state.
“The approach we put _big support for Ukraine, big pressure on Russiathe cooperation of more than 30 countries involved in these efforts_ gives real results, ” Blinken told reporters in Poland.
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