US Says Ukraine Has Taken Back 50% Of Territory That Russia Seized

“It is already taken again about 50% of what was initially seized,” he stated.

Washington:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that whereas Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv confronted a “a really exhausting battle” to win again extra.

“It is already taken again about 50% of what was initially seized,” he stated in an interview to CNN on Sunday.

“These are nonetheless comparatively early days of the counteroffensive. It’s robust,” he stated, including: “It won’t play out over the following week or two. We’re nonetheless wanting I feel at a number of months.”

Hopes that Ukraine might shortly clear Moscow’s forces from its territory following the launch of a summer season counteroffensive are fading as Kyiv’s troops battle to breach closely entrenched Russian positions within the nation’s south and east.

Late final month President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted as saying that progress towards Russian forces was “slower than desired” however that Kyiv wouldn’t be pressured into dashing it up.

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