July 5, 2022
John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, repeated Sunday that the U.S. will continue to finance Ukraine’s war effort against Russia despite more losses on the battlefield and reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops deeper into the country.
Kirby told Fox News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will determine when it is appropriate to negotiate, saying “he gets to determine how victory is decided and when and on what terms.”
He said the U.S. is going to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs on the battlefield so Zelensky can succeed at the negotiating table.
“But even President Zelensky will tell you that the time is not now for those discussions,” Kirby said.
The Trends Journal has long pointed out that the war in Ukraine has evolved into a war of attrition between Kyiv and Moscow and direct conflict between the U.S. and Russia, since the Washington has sent nearly $50 billion to Ukraine since the war began on 24 February. (See “ZELENSKY PROMISES VICTORY AFTER ADMITTING THAT RUSSIA, SEPARATISTS CONTROL 20 PERCENT OF COUNTRY,” “BRAZIL’S LULA SAYS UKRAINE’S COMEDIAN SHARES BLAME FOR WAR” and “ZELENSKY WON’T BUCKLE, LAMENTS BEING PRESSURED FOR PEACE.”)
Much of the fighting has been isolated in the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday that his forces now control the city of Lysychansk.
Despite Russia now controlling all the territory in the Luhansk region, Ukraine claims its troops made a strategic retreat and downplayed the loss of the city.
Still selling the bullshit of victory-at-hand, and repeated by the media as though it has credibility, rather than admitting defeat, they quoted Serhiy Haidai, the Luhansk governor who said losing Lysychansk “hurts,” but it’s not like “losing the war.”
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