White House officials told CNN that the U.S. government no longer has confidence that Ukraine will reclaim the territory lost to Russia in the war.
The scenario assessment comes as a new Kremlin battlefield target, after Russian forces advance in the Lysychansk region, the last major city in Luhansk province controlled by Ukrainian troops, and the fall of neighboring Sievierodonetsk over the weekend.
Although the US still approves of military aid to Ukraine and other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allied countries, the scenario of Russia’s advance in the east of the country has resulted in significant troop losses – their numbers reached 100 per day. – and the rapid loss of received weapons, which requires Ukrainian forces to undergo training to be able to use them.
According to CNN, it is this scenario that has changed the US climate and sparked controversy about a land-reduced Ukraine.
Ukraine has repeatedly stated that it will not give up any land. Negotiations between the two countries were interrupted with no sign of a resumption. Russia, on the other hand, said the conflict could end “in a day” if Ukraine surrenders under Kremlin terms.
“[A Ucrânia] It should order the delivery of arms to the nationalist troops, order the delivery of arms to the Ukrainian soldiers and all the conditions imposed by Russia should be applied. “Then everything will end in one day,” Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin, said yesterday.
Kherson goes to referendum to annex Russia
Associated with it, hersonKirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military occupation government of the municipality, which is the second largest city in Ukraine after Kiev, said in Telegram that he expected to hold a public referendum “soon” for the possible annexation of Ukraine to Russia after Kiev.
“The Kherson region will make a decision and join the Russian Federation. It will become a full-fledged entity, which can be like a single state, where the people of Russia live as one family,” Stremousov said in an interview published in your newspaper. Said. channel.
Yesterday, Stremousov announced that the mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, was arrested by Russian forces and their separatist allies. Kolykhaev was overthrown by Russian forces, who had conquered the area in April.
Kherson was one of the last places where the Russians were successful in their military offensive. The municipality is located in the north of Crimea, a territory controlled by Russia since 2014.
New attacks on Mykolaiv
Local officials said a series of Russian artillery strikes hit at least one residential building in the town of Mykolaiv today. Three people could have died.
Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed the attacks and said they targeted eight ammunition depots and a fuel depot in the Mykolaiv area, as well as a Ukrainian military training base for “foreign mercenaries” near the city.
source: Noticias
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