US president points to problems in Vladimir Putin’s war machine but Ukraine president warns there is ‘always resistance from the enemy’
, the Russian military,” the US president told reporters. Regarding the timing of the announcement, he added: “I find it interesting that they waited until after the [US midterm] election to make that judgment.”
“And when you are fighting, you must understand that every step is always resistance from the enemy, it is always the loss of the lives of our heroes. “And for the moment, we don’t know their intentions – will they engage in fighting with us and will they try to hold the city of Kherson? They are moving very slowly,” he added.
Milley also estimated that Russia’s military had seen more than 100,000 of its soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine, and added Kyiv’s armed forces “probably” suffered a similar level of casualties in the war. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said Russia’s retreat was “part of an overall pattern” demonstrating that Moscow “has absolutely lost the momentum”.
The announcement had also been anticipated by Russia’s influential war bloggers, who described it as a bitter blow.
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