By Udesinanna Stephen
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, has said the Russian-Ukraine war will not be won by Russian and will not end anytime soon.
Milley said this in an interview with journalists after a virtual meeting with countries that are members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein group.
“This war, militarily, is not going to be won by Russia. It’s just not…Russia’s original strategic objectives, including toppling the government in Kyiv, “are not achievable militarily,” Aljazeera gathered.
According to him, there are hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which would make Kyiv’s objective of recapturing all territory lost to Moscow’s forces difficult in the near time.
“That means fighting is going to continue; it’s going to be bloody, it’s going to be hard. And at some point, both sides will either negotiate a settlement or they’ will come to a military conclusion,” he said.
This agrees with a statement by Russia’s former President, Dmitry Medvedev, a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, who recently said Moscow’s war in Ukraine could continue for decades.
“This conflict will last a very long time, most likely decades,” he said, as reported by Russia News Agency, RIA.