US president says there was ‘no doubt’ Putin was planning to ‘go in’, while former British army head says leaders have no long-term plan
, “didn’t want to hear” warnings of the Russian invasion, according to the US president, Joe Biden.Vladimir Putin“Nothing like this has happened since World War Two,” he told donors. “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating.
Gen Lord Richards said the British government had adopted a “let’s see how it goes strategy” and was failing to show “decisiveness”., he said: “There is, at best, what might be termed incremental strategy with again no early and decisive synchronisation of ends, ways and means. It is a ‘let’s see how it goes strategy’, in other words not really strategy at all.
“Strategy is about choices and the more choices one needs to make to balance the ends, ways and means when pursuing the national interest, the more informed they need to be.”Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine was on course to win the grinding war with Russia, as fighting becomes focused on a key city in the east.
But neither side’s forces have so far been able to steal a march despite ferocious street fighting, which has seen much of the city reduced to rubble, the Reuters news agency reported. Addressing the Shangri-La Dialogue event from a secret location in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said it was crucial that the nations sending aid did not let up.
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