“The likelihood of a military victory for Ukraine, which expelled the Russians from all over Ukraine, including Crimea, the likelihood that this will happen in the near future, militarily is not very high,” commented US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley during a press conference. along with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Milley also called Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s power grid on Tuesday a “war crime.”
“Intentionally targeting civilian power grids, causing excessive collateral damage and unnecessary suffering to the civilian population, is a war crime,” the general accused.
Russia launched massive strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure across the country on Tuesday, including near the Polish border, leaving millions of homes without power, according to Kyiv.
Milli said that about a quarter of the population of Ukraine was left without access to electricity due to rocket attacks carried out by Russian troops, and he estimated that there were between 60 and 90 of them.
Referring to the numerous failures of Russian troops, including the recent withdrawal of troops from Kherson, the American general lamented that Moscow had decided to conduct a “campaign of terror.”
“They have not achieved their strategic goals and are now failing operationally and tactically,” Milley concluded.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people – more than six million internally displaced people and more than 7.7 million – to European countries, the latest UN figures show. , which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community as a whole, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia. political and economic sanctions.
