According to the department, now in the Luhansk region the territory literally changes hands every day.
The Pentagon reminded Shoigu about the failure near Kharkov / photo REUTERS
Pentagon Speaker John Kirby reacted to the statements of the head of the Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu about the alleged imminent complete capture of the Lugansk region.
So, when asked by a journalist about whether the Pentagon has any general idea of what part of Ukraine is now controlled by Russia and what this means, Kirby indicated that he does not have a percentage estimate.
“And I’m not sure that this will be some useful metric, because the territory literally changes hands every single day,” he said.
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As for the statements of the Russian minister, Kirby recalled the failure of the Russians near Kharkov.
“For example, two weeks ago, if you had asked me about Kharkov… Although we never believed that the Russians held Kharkov, they surrounded and surrounded Kharkov. There was only a small corridor southeast of the city through which the Ukrainians could continue to supply themselves And now they have literally driven the Russians far from Kharkov up to the border with Belarus and Russia, and then further east, far into the northern region of Donbass,” he said.
As UNIAN wrote, a day earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announcedthat the Russian occupation troops have almost completed the operation to “liberate” the so-called “LPR”.
“Groups of the Russian armed forces, together with units of the people’s militia of the ‘Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics’, continue to expand control over the territories of Donbass. The ‘liberation’ of the ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ is nearing completion,” he said.
According to the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai, now under the control of Ukraine left up to 10% of the Lugansk region.
