The Pentagon warned today that despite successes of Ukrainian forces in KharkovThe Russian army manages to strengthens its control in Donbas and in the south of the country, which means that the conflict can last a long time.
Russian forces continue to have problems of cohesion, morale of the troops and logisticsa high-ranking official of the US Department of Defense told the press, without confirming the purges in the ranks of the Russian military administration cited London.
However “we will stay a long time careful in our forecasts “, he added.
“We are absolutely determined to do everything to help the Ukrainians defend themselves, including their training in the use of what we supply them “, continued the high-ranking official who asked not to be named.
“They behave very well on the battlefield, they have no cohesion problems, they have no leadership problems, their logistics and supply is indeed historians“, he added.
“But the Russians still have at their disposal a significant part of their forces that they have gathered since the autumn” on the border with Ukraine, he stressed.
“Fighting is not enough to win a war: you have to have the will to fight, you need a good administration,” he said. “Nevertheless, we continue to believe that this conflict will last.”
The Russian military, which is now focusing on efforts in southern Ukraine to build a land bridge connecting Russian territory to the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014, has taken control of its port. Mariupol after the surrender of the Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steel site.
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