Top NATO commander: Russia's offensive won't succeed
BRUSSELS — Russia’s ongoing offensive in Ukraine doesn’t have the legs for a breakthrough, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe said Thursday.
“I know the Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” Christopher Cavoli told reporters after a meeting of the alliance’s defense chiefs at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
“They don't have the skill and the capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage," said the U.S. general, but added: "They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that.”
Cavoli's assessment comes from “very close contact with our Ukrainian colleagues, and I'm confident that they that they will hold the line,” he added.
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