US has been making ready Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘for months’ – Nuland — RT World Information

The US Beneath Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland instructed an viewers in Kiev on Thursday that Washington has been serving to plan the Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ towards Russia for nearly half a yr.

“Whilst you intend for the counteroffensive, which we now have been engaged on with you for some 4-5 months, we’re already starting our discussions with [the] Ukrainian authorities and with associates in Kiev – each on the civilian aspect and on the navy aspect – about Ukraine’s long-term future,” Nuland instructed the Kiev Safety Discussion board through video-link from the State Division.

She added that the assault will likely be “doubtless beginning and transferring concurrently” with occasions such because the NATO summit in Lithuania, scheduled for July 11.

In response to Nuland, the US can be planning for Ukraine’s future navy to discourage Russia, so “wherever and nevertheless this ends – one yr, six years, 16 years – we’re not doing this once more.” She additionally painted a rosy image of a future during which Ukraine could be the “engine of Europe’s revitalization” and “setting the democratic instance… for the entire world.”

The discussion board was organized by the Open Ukraine Basis, established by former Ukrainian PM Arseny Yatseniuk, who moderated the panel at which Nuland spoke. One other panel was co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, whose officers argued that “transatlantic unity and strong assist might help Ukraine defeat Russia and renew European safety.”

The federal government in Kiev had been heralding a significant “counteroffensive” for months. President Vladimir Zelensky and different Ukrainian officers have argued that they didn’t have fairly sufficient weapons, ammunition and tools and wanted the West to ship extra. As of Thursday, two of Zelensky’s advisers gave public statements implying the offensive hasn’t began but, whereas a 3rd insisted it was already underway alongside the 1,500-kilometer lengthy frontline.

Nuland famously traveled to Kiev to assist the Maidan protests in December 2013, handing out pastries to the crowds demanding a pact with the EU. In a February 2014 cellphone name, she mentioned the composition of the long run Ukrainian authorities with US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt. Three weeks later, the nationalists would violently seize energy from President Viktor Yanukovich, triggering occasions that may result in Crimea rejoining Russia and clashes within the Donbass.

Returning to the State Division in 2021 as a part of Joe Biden’s administration, Nuland was as soon as once more put in control of Ukraine coverage. Talking at a Carnegie Basis occasion in February, she stated the conquest of Crimea and regime change in Moscow could be the best consequence of the present battle. Her sister-in-law Kimberly Kagan runs the Institute for the Examine of Struggle (ISW), a Washington advocacy group steadily quoted by Western media concerning the state of affairs on the Ukraine frontline.

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