The Pentagon official was questioned about remarks made the day before during a congressional hearing by Defense Minister Lloyd Austin, who had indicated that the United States was training Ukrainian soldiers outside Ukraine in the use of weapons. that they provide them.
“Some are trained here in the United States“, had added the chief of staff, general Mark Milley, without further details.
On the ground, all the Russian forces that had been deployed in the kyiv region have left Ukraine, the senior American official also said on Wednesday. “We estimate that they have completely withdrawn from Kyiv and Chernigiv“, he said.
Russian bombardment intensified in the south and east, where Russia announced that it intended to focus its efforts, but “we have not seen a tangible influx of forces or resources into the Donbass“, he noted.
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