America and Ukraine – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Ukraine’s capital over the end of the week, driving the moment senior U.S. assignment to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a week and announce back for his country’s battle to defeat back the Russian invasion.
With each visit — the secretaries of state and defense traveled to Kyiv final end of the week — the guarantee of U.S. commitment to a Ukrainian triumph shows up to develop, indeed as how the U.S. characterizes triumph has remained questionable.
On Sunday, a day after her visit to Ukraine, Pelosi told a news conference regarding America and Ukraine in Poland: “America stands with Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine until triumph is won.
And we stand with NATO.” Pelosi, the moment in line to succeed President Joe Biden, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Kyiv since the war started, and her words carry weight, appearing to emphasize an extended see of U.S. and partnered war aims.
Her visit, with a congressional appointment, taken after a joint visit to Kyiv by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as it were final Sunday.
Austin caused a few discussion and talk about a short time later when he showed up to move the objective of the war from protecting Ukraine’s freedom and regional sway to debilitating Russia.
“We need to see Russia debilitated to the degree that it can’t do the sorts of things that it has exhausted attacking Ukraine,” Austin said, inferring that the U.S. needed to disintegrate Russian military control for a long time to come — probably so long as President Vladimir Putin of Russia remains in control – America and Ukraine
In a Twitter message, Zelenskyy applauded the evacuation of what he said was a “first group of about 100 people,” and said that “tomorrow we’ll meet them in Zaporizhzhia.”
Russian forces have not yet been able to finally take the last slice of Mariupol, which no longer matters militarily but which has been an inspiring symbol of Ukrainian bravery, morale and resistance that is bound to go down in Ukrainian history.
But if there is a new allied consensus about supplying Ukraine with heavier and more sophisticated weapons for the latest stage of the war in eastern Ukraine, there is no allied consensus about switching the war aim from Ukraine to Russia.
Some wonder what Washington is trying to say — or do. “To help Ukraine prevail is not about waging war against Russia for reasons related to its governance,” Heisbourg said. “Regime change may be a vision, but not a war aim.”
He and others said that such talk from Washington plays perfectly into Putin’s narrative that NATO is waging war against Russia, and that Russia is fighting a defensive war for its survival in Ukraine.
Talk of victory over Russia “gives easy ammunition to the other side and creates the fear that the West may go further, and it’s not what we want,” said Ulrich Speck, a German analyst. “We don’t want to cut Russia into pieces.”
Talk of war:
In response, Moscow has raised the tone of its own rhetoric. On Wednesday, Putin said that any countries who “create a strategic threat to Russia” during this war in Ukraine can expect “retaliatory strikes” that would be “lightning-fast.”
Days before, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said that “NATO is essentially going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.”
Putin’s military, having lost what Britain estimates to have been at least 15,000 killed in action — that is more than in the Soviet Union’s entire war in Afghanistan — has been struggling to cut supply lines of Western arms, munitions and heavy weapons to Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.
It is not just Ukraine’s military that is being starved of supplies. There is now a shortage of gasoline and diesel, at least for civilian use, stemming from Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports and attacks on refineries and fuel depots.
Ukrainian forces launched an attack on a Russian headquarters in Izium on Saturday evening, but Gerasimov had already left to return to Russia, the official said.
Still, some 200 soldiers, including at least one general, were killed, the Ukrainian official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military operation.
Though the gains have been small, they are emblematic of both the Ukrainian and Russian forces’ strategy as the war drags into its third month, one that focuses on a village at a time and leverages concentrated artillery fire to dislodge one another.
Conclusion:
The Russian forces in control of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson and its surrounding province started to enforce a transition to the Russian ruble from Ukrainian currency Sunday, a move that Ukrainian officials have described as part of an attempt to scrub a part of the country clean of its national identity and embed it in Moscow’s sphere of influence.
At the same time, the Ukrainians reported Sunday that nearly all cellular and internet service in the area was down. The Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior accused Russian forces of cutting service, saying it was an attempt to keep Ukrainians from seeing truthful information about the war.
But as ever, what is meant by “victory,” whether it involves Russia entirely out of Ukraine or just blocking its advance until its offensive runs out of steam and negotiations ensue, remains an open question.
So does the equally central question of what Putin decides is victory enough for his own war of choice.
Edited by – Vanshika Sahu
Published by – Mohd Faizan
