Pentagon, the Pentagon, John Kirby, commented on statements by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu about the allegedly imminent complete capture of the Luhansk region.
UNIAN reports that the journalist’s question if the Pentagon has a general idea of which part of Ukraine is now controlled by the Russian Federation and what the statement of the Russian minister means, the Pentagon speaker replied that he did not have a percentage of the geography of military operations.
“And I’m not sure that it will be some kind of useful metric, because the territory literally passes from hand to hand every day,” Kirby noted.
As for the statements of the Russian minister, Kirby reminded of the failure of Russians near Kharkov: “For example, two weeks ago, if you asked me about Kharkov … although we never thought that the Russians held Kharkov, they surrounded and surrounded Kharkov. There was Kharkov. It was. Only a small corridor southeast of the city through which Ukrainians could continue to supply themselves. And now they literally pushed the Russians far from Kharkov up to the border with Belarus and Russia. And then still to the east, far to the northern region of Donbass, ” – Kirby noted.