The war in Ukraine. The American leadership does not believe in Ukraine’s victory this year

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff interviewed Defense One. He referred to the possibility of Ukrainian forces expelling Russian forces from Ukraine. “I don’t think it will happen this year,” he said.

Gen. Mark Milley noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared many times that Ukraine’s goal is to expel all Russian soldiers from the Ukrainian lands they occupy. – This is a very dangerous military mission. Very, very difficult. He stressed that we are talking about hundreds of thousands of Russians who are in Ukraine occupied by Russia.

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– I’m not saying it can’t be done. All I can say is that it’s a very difficult job.”

In November last year, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at a press conference that the likelihood that Ukraine “in the near future” will recapture Crimea and drive Russian troops out of its territory is “not high.”

At the same time, General Milley estimated that the Russian forces that led the invasion of Ukraine had failed strategically, operationally and tactically.