General Milley said a counteroffensive would not completely dislodge Russia

In any case, Ukraine’s counteroffensive will not help completely oust Russia and return lost territories to Kyiv’s control, said General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. His words are reported by CNN.

“The offensive, while significant, has operational and tactical objectives that are limited. <...> Even if they are fully achieved, they will not allow the Russians to be completely driven out,” he said.

Milley declined to say how long it would take Kyiv to achieve its goals, but he stressed that it would be a “quite long” period.” He also said that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is “prolonged, difficult and bloody.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously called the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “not just a slippage, but a failure.”