U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 9 Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said the US sees the «strategic defeat» of Russian President Vladimir Putin as its ultimate goal in Ukraine.
"From the US perspective , the ultimate goal is the strategic defeat of President Putin,” Nuland said during a congressional hearing.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in the early hours of February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President stressed. The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly said that the West is pumping Ukraine with the latest weapons. us, the one with us: Russia announced the list of unfriendly countries