The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, assured that he is convinced that Russia will suffer a strategic defeat in Ukraine, remarking that it has already “failed in its main objectives” almost two weeks after the Russian invasion.
“In the end, I am absolutely convinced that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin will fail, and that Russia will suffer a strategic defeat in Ukraine,” he told a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in Washington. .
Blinken, who has just returned from a tour where he visited several European countries bordering Ukraine where refugees are concentrated, stressed that Russia “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.
Source: Gestion
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