To cover up its brutal aggression against Ukraine, Russia casts the war as a defense against NATO. Now a top Putin adviser spreads that debunked claim. See our fact check.
Russia initially attacked in northern, southern and eastern Ukraine under the pretext of "denazifying" and "demilitarizing" the country.Russia forces did take large swaths of Ukrainian territory in the south and east, however, wreaking vast destruction and death.
“Ukraine’s military capability and economy are now dependent almost entirely on lifelines from the West – primarily, the United States. … We have a determined partner in Ukraine that is willing to bear the consequences of war so that we do not have to do so ourselves in the future,” the former U.S.
“The Ukrainian armed forces have already killed or wounded upwards of 100,000 Russian troops, half its original fighting force; there have been almost 8,000 confirmed losses of armored vehicles including thousands of tanks, thousands of APCs [armored troop vehicles], artillery pieces, hundreds of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and numerous naval vessels.
“U.S. spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.”
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