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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley. File photoWASHINGTON, May 3.The US believes that the world is entering an era of greater instability, during which the likelihood of a clash between the great powers is increasing, not decreasing, said the head of the committee of chiefs of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley. not shrinking,» Milley told the US Senate during a budget appropriation hearing.The Pentagon called the situations in Ukraine and Taiwan completely different scenarios. At the same time, he added that today the United States has to confront two great powers: Russia and China — each of which pursues the goal of «fundamentally changing the rules-based world order.» Touching upon the events in Ukraine, Milley called them «the biggest security threat to Europe, and possibly the whole world, in more than 40 years» of his military career. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» transfer to Kyiv of 80% of the total number of allocated howitzers. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only in terms of military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.