Demilitarisation ya ukrane ishaisah kitambo sasa hiv ni Demilitarisation ya NATO, mpaka maghala yao yote yawe meupe!!Russia's goal to eliminate Ukraine from the map "failed a long time ago," US secretary of state says
From CNN's Kaanita Iyer
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in Washington, DC, on July 20. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Russia has "already lost the war" in Ukraine in terms of what Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to achieve, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN.
“The objective was to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia. That failed a long time ago,” the secretary said in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday.
Blinken acknowledged that Ukraine’s mission to regain territory captured by Moscow — which has gotten off to a slow start, by its own estimation — would be “a very hard fight.” He predicted that the war, which recently surpassed the 500 days mark, would continue for “several months.”
However, he said, along with the aid, military equipment and training Ukraine is receiving from various countries, Kyiv’s cause represents “the decisive element.”
“Unlike the Russians, Ukrainians are fighting for their land, for their future, for their country, for their freedom,” Blinken said.
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Has the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine turned a 'failure' ?
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“Regrettably, the occupiers have gone far ahead of us in this regard. You don't have to shoot down a drone with anti-aircraft missiles or anti-aircraft guns. You can simply force it to land, intercept it with electronic warfare,” he said on Ukrainian television.
“Russia today has powerful systems that interfere with the work of our defense forces. It has enough of these systems. Ukraine has made progress in electronic warfare, but we started late, we should have developed [this area] earlier," Inhat added.
Russian ability to jam drones is slowing Ukrainian advance, military says
From CNN's Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Mari Kostenko and Josh Pennington
Ukraine's counteroffensive is partly struggling because of Russian ability to jam drones, according to military officials.
Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of the Ukrainian forces in the south, said heavy losses were being inflicted on the Russians, but it’s clear that progress is slow.
One reason, according to Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuri Inhat, is that Russia has a major advantage in electronic warfare.
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