US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday it was “too early” to predict the outcome of the Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive in northeastern Ukraine against Russian forces.
“It’s too early to say exactly where all this will lead us,” Antony Blinken told a news conference in Mexico City. “We are in the early days (of the counter-offensive, editor’s note) so I think it would not be good to predict exactly where this will all lead.”
“The Russians maintain very significant forces in Ukraine, as well as equipment and ammunition,” the secretary of state observed, on a whirlwind trip to Mexico City for a high-level “US-Mexico economic dialogue.”
“Ukrainians fight for their homeland”
“But clearly we have significant progress from the Ukrainians, particularly in the northeast,” said Joe Biden’s envoy who was in Kyiv last week.
“Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland and for their future, not the Russians,” he stressed, adding that “we will continue to do whatever it takes” to support Ukraine.
Ukraine announced new military successes on Monday, saying it reached the Russian border and recaptured the equivalent of seven times the area of Kyiv in a month from the Russian army, which responded by shelling some recaptured areas.
The Ukrainian army first announced a counteroffensive in the south, before making a lightning advance in the Kharkiv region (northeast) last week.
Source: BFM TV
