Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Russia had already suffered a “strategic defeat” in its invasion of Ukraine.
“If you take a step back and look, this was already a dramatic strategic setback for Russia, and I would say a strategic defeat,” Blinken told co-host Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union when he was asked about additional sanctions the US can impose on Russia.
Blinken said Russia had already failed in the three main goals it pursued when it began invading Ukraine.
“They had three goals. One was to subjugate Ukraine to Russia’s will to deprive her of her sovereignty and independence. The second was to assert Russian power. The third was to split the West and NATO. It’s already lost on all three fronts,” said Blinken.
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“Ukraine, its sovereignty and independence, will be there much longer than Vladimir Putin will be on the scene, the Russian military has dramatically underperformed, its economy is teetering, and the West and NATO are more united than ever, to which I… can remember,” he added.
Blinken’s comments come as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth week. While Moscow has taken control of some cities, its efforts in a number of areas have stalled due to staunch Ukrainian opposition.
Ukrainian forces regained full control of the region around Kyiv on Sunday for the first time since Russia began invading the country in late February.
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