The United States is hoping Ukraine can degrade Russia's military capabilities to the point that Moscow is not able to 'do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,' Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
The United States is hoping Ukraine can degrade Russia's military capabilities to the point that Moscow is not able to"do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
"We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country able to protect its sovereign territory. We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine," Austin told reporters."So it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability."A senior U.S.
Russia began its invasion with the intent to topple Kyiv in a matter of days, but after weeks of unsuccessful attempts, its forces retreated and shifted their focus to the Donbas region in the east, which is a contested Ukrainian territory that has a strong pro-Russian separatist faction.
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