General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces (JCHS), believes that the conflict in Ukraine is unlikely to end in 2023. He said this in an interview with the magazine. foreign affairs.
“I believe that it will be very difficult, very difficult for any of the parties to achieve their political goals – and I believe that war means achieving political goals by military means. “Frankly I don’t think that’s likely to happen this year,” Milley said.
Previously, the Commander-in-Chief of the National and Ukrainian Armed Forces (APU) Valeriy Zaluzhny in a phone call discussed the course of the conflict and mutual assessments of the situation. During the meeting, Milli and Zaluzhny reviewed the course of hostilities. They also exchanged views on the possibilities of conflict and their assessment of the situation on the line of conflict.
April 1 President National declarationIt is unlikely that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will overthrow the Russian army and regain control of the Donbass and Crimea by 2024.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.