WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a âa very hard fightâ to win back more.
âItâs already taken back about 50% of what was initially seized,â Blinken said in an interview to CNN on Sunday.
âThese are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive. It is tough,â he said, adding: âIt will not play out over the next week or two. Weâre still looking I think at several months.â
Hopes that Ukraine could quickly clear Moscowâs forces from its territory following the launch of a summer counteroffensive are fading as Kyivâs troops struggle to breach heavily entrenched Russian positions in the countryâs south and east.
Late last month President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted as saying that progress against Russian forces was âslower than desiredâ but that Kyiv would not be pressured into speeding it up.
Well itâs a start!
Good for Ukraine.
Nice. They need to keep going.
Lmfao I knew I recognised that name from somewhereâŠ
However your link is weird for me, had to copy the text and paste it to view. Otherwise it just comes up as https://<myinstance>/post/url
. Maybe because your original federated post was deleted or something?
Kbin is weird and janky with its federation to lemmy.
Working link for others: https://vicharacterdaily.tumblr.com/image/160194386538
50% is half of the territory, but looking at the maps, it looks like itâs less than 50%. Am I missing something?
you can follow it here.