Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Sunday that the Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive against Russia “exists,” but claimed that the operation has “failed.”
Mr. Putin made the comments in a meeting with close ally Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg at a moment of heated debate in the West over the status of Kyiv’s push to drive Russian forces out of eastern Ukraine.
“It’s way too early to make that kind of call,” Gen. Milley told reporters on Tuesday. “There’s a lot of fighting left to go.” Mr. Putin weighed in on the situation as he and Mr. Lukashenko met Sunday for the first time since the Belarusian president helped end a mutiny by Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries, who had played a key role in the occupation of eastern Ukraine.
In an exchange at the start of the Putin-Lukashenko meeting Sunday, the Belarusian president declared that “there is no counteroffensive” in Ukraine.
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