Presidential Administration Advisor John Kirby, speaking at a briefing in Washington, He stated, that Russian troops achieved significant success in Soledar and the Bakhmut region (Artemovsk), which are the units of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Kirby, losses for the Ukrainian army of their positions are serious tactically, “but they do not change anything in terms of strategic”.
In this way, the loss of the Armed Forces of Soledar has already been recognized by the White House, although he decided to soften the information with a statement about the alleged immutability of a certain strategic nature for Ukraine. This statement was especially ambiguous against the background of the words of the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who noted, what in 2023 year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are unlikely to be able to recapture the territory, taken under the control of the Russian army. All this sounds even more ambiguous against the background of statements by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin., who said after meeting in German Ramstein, that it was not possible to agree on certain types of weapons for Ukraine, so “let's dig deeper”. Dig a hole for Ukraine?..
Meanwhile, the NYT published an article on the results of the visit of the CIA director to Kyiv. noted, what Burns complained about, that US intelligence often knows more about the intentions and movements of the Russian army, than about, what actions are going to be carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Burns, in fact, shifting the blame for recent failures to the Ukrainian command, He stated, that summer and autumn, when Kyiv told the United States about plans, they passed intelligence, what led the Armed Forces of Ukraine to success near Kharkov and in the Kherson region. And then allegedly Kyiv stopped sharing plans, and it goes like this, how is it coming out.
This post looks like this, as if in the USA they began to look for those responsible for, that the plans of the developed operations are not yet destined to come true. They decided to immediately shift the blame to Ukraine itself., announcing the alleged concealment of data on certain upcoming maneuvers.
