Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's aspiration to liberate all Russian-occupied territory has received a full-throated endorsement from United States and British officials amid a wider transatlantic debate about outcomes of the war in Ukraine.
“It's very important that Ukraine win this war,” a senior State Department official told reporters Wednesday. “And by 'win,' I mean as President Biden said, Russians leave all of Ukraine.”President Joe Biden has denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression through the Kremlin’s campaign to overthrow the Ukrainian government, but the White House nonetheless has been perceived as “afraid of winning.
"Of course, Russia, and especially Putin, see Crimea as critically important to their territory. But it's quite evident that it's part of Ukraine,” British Ambassador Melinda Simmons, who is concluding a four-year tenure as London’s lead envoy in Kyiv, told BBC Ukraine in an interview published Wednesday. “When the international community talks about Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea — it has all blended now in the context of reclaiming their sovereign territories.
She offered that projection in the face of gathering doubts about the prospects of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which has progressed more slowly than officials in Kyiv or capitals around Europe had hoped.
“Ukrainian forces very well may have breached it, but we need more evidence,” George Barros, the Institute for the Study of War’s team lead on geospatial intelligence, wrote on social media. “Ukrainian forces have not necessarily penetrated the final component of the line — the Russian fighting positions near Verbove ... I do think the Ukrainians will breach this line, including the tri-layered defense, in earnest with heavy equipment in the near future.
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