![]() ![]() Under Pentagon guidelines, General Hokanson was not allowed to describe in detail the training he saw. “We are delivering the training they’ve asked for, and the training they need,” he said in an email on Thursday. General Hokanson spent several hours at Camp Kherson, a portion of the training area named after the city in southern Ukraine where Ukrainian forces achieved a major victory over Russian troops last fall. “That is what President Zelensky has asked for - the ability to continue to defend the airspace of Ukraine against the Russian onslaught by Russian aircraft and missile attack.” “The most important priority the Ukrainians need right now is air defense,” General Milley said. ![]() Western officials have warned that if Ukraine runs out of the weaponry it has used over the past year to keep Russian war planes at bay, Moscow could quickly gain a stronger hand. General Milley said that in addition to providing tanks and ammunition and fighting vehicles, the Biden administration was intent on helping Ukraine’s air defenses, a task that Pentagon war planners deem critical. Austin III told a Washington Post columnist, Max Boot, that a “realistic goal for this year” would be for the Ukrainians to cut the “land bridge.” Ukraine could also mount an offensive in the south, targeting the so-called land bridge that connects the Russian mainland to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. But other senior American officials, military analysts and Ukrainian officials themselves have suggested that Kyiv might try to move against Russian defensive lines in the northeast or eastern parts of the country, including in Donetsk and Luhansk. General Milley refused to detail the options that the Ukrainians tested during the exercises. “It’s a common thing that all militaries do.” “The Ukrainians are moving things around on these maps to determine what is their best course of action, and they determine the advantages and disadvantages of the risks associated,” he said. In discussing them afterward, he described a huge table with maps and icons and other military paraphernalia meant to represent potential battles. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, attended the exercises on Thursday. Bakhmut: The battle to take the eastern Ukrainian city has been ruthless and hugely costly for both sides, but especially for the Russians, even as they have inched forward.A Crime in Progress: The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Putin over the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children highlights a practice that the Kremlin has not concealed and says will continue.A Defiant Putin: The Russian president visited the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a move that came shortly after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes.Xi’s Visit to Russia: Xi Jinping, China’s leader, arrived in Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, a state visit that will highlight their nations’ close ties and will be closely watched by the West. ![]()
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