US Department of Defense HeadquartersWASHINGTON, Mar 29The Pentagon in the current national security strategy calls Russia an «acute threat», China a «permanent rival», declares its ability to cope with challenges from Iran and North Korea, follows from the published explanations to the document. «Russia poses an acute threat, as shown by the cruel and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. We will continue to work with our NATO allies and partners to strengthen a strong deterrence in the face of Russian aggression,» the US Department of Defense said in a memo to the document. containment of the PRC as our most persistent strategic rival and challenge for the ministry.» «The ministry remains capable of dealing with other existing threats, including North Korea, Iran and violent extremist organizations,» the statement said. The Pentagon described the key points of the strategy, including work aimed at comprehensive containment. «Deterrence of aggression while preparations are underway to dominate the conflict, when necessary. The priority is the challenges from the PRC in the Indo-Pacific region, then the challenges from Russia in Europe,» the explanation says. Declassifying some details of the activities of the military department is also considered important in the interests of harmonizing the budget paid by American taxpayers. «The Department will achieve its goals in three main ways: comprehensive deterrence, campaigning, and sustainable advantage,» says the Pentagon. Ukraine,” the Pentagon reports and promises to strengthen US alliances. Earlier, the military department reported that a classified updated version of the national strategy was submitted to the US Congress. The legislative branch, which is represented by Congress, at the request of the executive — the presidential administration — agrees on the budget, and by virtue of the existing powers controls the work of state bodies, which regularly report to legislators at various levels.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. military in the training of Ukrainian forces