US Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley. 2015 WASHINGTON, Apr 5The Pentagon believes that the conflict in Ukraine will be long and could stretch for years, said Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Tuesday. , will be measured in years. I don't know about decades, but at least a few years for sure,» Milley said during a House budget hearing. According to him, we are talking about a protracted conflict between Russia and Ukraine, in which the United States, as well as NATO allies and partners, «will be involved for quite a long time.»
Medvedev: the operation in Ukraine will continue until the goals are achieved The day before, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that, according to Washington's estimates, «the next phase of the Ukrainian conflict can be measured in months or longer.» Russia launched a 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
