Russian President Vladimir Putin “will fail” in son Classes invasion of Ukraine and Moscow will suffer a “strategic defeat”, according to the American secretary of State Antony Blinken says on Wednesday.
The top US diplomat said Putin was increasingly turning to a “strategy of devastating” Ukraine population crosses, and despite tactical gains in seizing certain Ukrainian cities, it is facing widespread popular opposition as his forces seize these areas.
“Yes son goal is to impose a kind of puppet regime by displacing the current government and put in place one at son taste, I think it’s pretty obvious by the answer of the Ukrainian peoplethat they will never accept this,” Blinken said at a joint press conference. with British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss.
“And if he tries to impose such a puppet regime by keeping Russian forces in Ukraine it will be a long and bloody, drawn-out mess in which Russia will continue to suffer badly,” added Blinker.
Truss issued a similarly worded assessment on Putin’s outlook, stressing that the West must maintain son unity in charge a fee on Russia.
“Now is not the time to let up”, she says. ” We know that if Putin is not arrested in Ukraine, there will be terrible implications for European and global Security. We would send the message that sovereign nations can just be stepped on on.”
The West has imposed biting economic sanctions on Russia in reprisals for his war, causing an exodus of Major international Russian companies. He has also restrictions imposed on export of key technologies.
At least 474 civilians were killed and 864 others injured in Ukraine from the beginning of The Russian War on February 24, according to United Nations figures. Over 2.1 millions other Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countriesrecent data from the UN High Commissioner for The refugees showed.
A recent air strike cause by local officials on Russia razes a maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol earlier on Wednesday, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to renew son call for the West to establish a no-fly zone over the country.
“People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer the world to be an ignorant accomplice terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you have theair to lose humanity”, wrote the Ukrainian president on Telegram.
Senior US and UK diplomats, however, continued to reject the calls, saying it would almost certainly be lead to a live military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
“It would prolong it. It would make it a lot more deadlier than that already East. And it would be neither in the interests of our countriesni in interest of Ukraine,” Blinken said.
The United States and the United Kingdom supplied Ukraine military with defensive equipment, with Washington providing anti-tank and anti-air ammunition. The United Kingdom had provided anti-tank weapons but announced on On Wednesday, it also plans to supply its Starstreak anti-aircraft weapons.
