The United States is “convinced” that Russia will suffer “strategic defeat” in Ukraine

Secretary of State for United StatesAntony Blinken, assured this Wednesday that he is “convinced” that Russia it will suffer a “strategic defeat” in Ukraine, stressing that it has already “failed in its main objectives” almost two weeks after the Russian invasion.

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This was stated by Blinken at a joint press conference with British Foreign Minister Liz Truss in Washington.

“In the end, I am absolutely convinced that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin will fail, and that Russia will suffer a strategic defeat in Ukraine,” said the head of US diplomacy.

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Blinken, who has just returned from a tour where he visited several European countries bordering Ukraine where the refugees are concentrated, he remarked that Russia “it has already failed in its main objectives”

“The question now – he remarked – is whether or not President Putin decides to try to reduce the losses he has caused himself and the Russian people.”

Regarding the possibility of reinforcing a no-fly zone in Ukraine, as requested by the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, Blinken and Truss agreed in their rejection.

The British diplomat stressed that “the reality is that establishing this measure would lead to a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia”, something that the Alliance does not want.

Blinken expressed himself along the same lines, indicating that “the objective is to end the war, not to expand it.”

Both diplomats defended the harshness and effectiveness of the economic sanctions adopted by the West, to which London and Washington added on Tuesday the veto on oil imports from Russia.

While the bombing continues in Ukraine, and almost two weeks after the Russian invasion, more than 2.15 million Ukrainians have already fled their country, mainly to Poland and Hungary.

Until March 7, it has been possible to verify and document that 474 people have died in the attacks, including 29 children; and a total of 861 have been injured, including 44 minors, according to the latest count by the United Nations Office for Human Rights.

However, he pointed out that the real numbers of wounded and dead are surely higher, given that the information arrives with difficulties, especially from cities such as Mariúpol, Volnovaja and Izium, where the fighting is intensifying and there is talk of hundreds more victims.

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Source: Elcomercio

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