The decision of Volodimir Putin, the russian president, to appoint general Aleksander Dvornikov the leader of the russian army that is fighting against Ukraine “is not going to erase the fact that this is a strategic failure”, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, informs CNN.
“This general is responsible for overseeing atrocities in Syria and that we would expect that it would be a continuation of the types of atrocities we've already seen take place in Ukraine,” Psaki said.
“But still everything hasn’t gone as president Putin has planned and we are not expecting the personnel changeover will correct that,” added she.
Jan Psaki admitted that the White House forecasts the russians “to try to besiege and defeat the Ukrainian forces” in the east of Ukraine, where the troops of the rf were concentrated after failed attempts to invade Kyiv. And, meanwhile, the russian will continue to conduct strike operations on the rest of the territory of Ukraine.
“And we are expecting this stage of the conflict to last for a long time. And we are not to have any illusions that russia is going to correct its tactics and make it less tough,” the press secretary of the White House said.
The US and Ukraine have vivid consultations regarding a new package of military aid that will take into account the specific of warfighting in the east and south of Ukraine where the landscape is different from those we had at the previous main front of the war.