WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned that whereas Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv confronted a “a very hard fight” to win again extra.
“It’s already taken back about 50% of what was initially seized,” Blinken mentioned in an interview to CNN on Sunday.
“These are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive. It is tough,” he mentioned, including: “It will not play out over the next week or two. We’re still looking I think at several months.”
Hopes that Ukraine might shortly clear Moscow’s forces from its territory following the launch of a summer season counteroffensive are fading as Kyiv’s troops wrestle to breach closely entrenched Russian positions within the nation’s south and east.
Late final month President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted as saying that progress towards Russian forces was “slower than desired” however that Kyiv wouldn’t be pressured into dashing it up. — Reuters
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