BREAKING: Russia 'increasingly frustrated' by lack of momentum: US defense official
following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion this week, a senior defense official said Saturday that Moscow has become"increasingly frustrated" by the lack of momentum.
"We continue to believe, based on what we've observed, that this resistance is greater than what the Russians expected," the official added. Despite attempted advances, Russian forces have been unable to successfully penetrate Kyiv and remain approximately 20 miles outside the city. Overnight clashes that did occur in Kyiv are believed to have been carried out by small numbers of pre-positioned Russian sabotage groups.
Defense officials estimate that of the 150,000 troops Russia amassed along Ukraine in the months leading up to the incursion that more than 50 percent of those forces have already entered Ukraine.
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