Senator Graham Tells VOA in Kyiv: Ukraine Eventually Will Join NATO | VOA News
VOA Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Myroslava Gongadze speaks with Senator Lindsey Graham in Kyiv on Friday during a press conference.
Responding to VOA about whether the U.S. will support Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, Senator Graham said Ukraine will eventually become part of the alliance and a member of the EU but for now, the priority, he said, is for Ukraine to “evict the invader,” from Ukrainian territories. “I told President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy nobody is signed up for an invasion of Russia. The weapons we’re providing are to evict Russia from Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine is prepared to launch its long-expected counteroffensive against Russian forces, according to Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov.
In an interview with the BBC Saturday, Danilov said the counteroffensive is coming very soon, though he refused to give a date for the beginning of the launch. “It would be weird if I were to name dates of the start of that,” he said. “… We have a very responsible task before our country.”
Danilov confirmed in the interview that the Wagner Group is withdrawing its forces from the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but he acknowledged that Russia’s Wagner mercenaries are “regrouping to another three locations“ after what he called their partial withdrawal from Bakhmut.
Danilov acknowledged that Ukrainian forces control only a “small part of the city” but underscored that “Bakhmut has played a big role in this war,“ despite the heavy toll on Ukrainian defenders.
The British Defense Ministry also confirmed in its daily intelligence update on Ukraine posted on Twitter that “Wagner Group forces have likely started to withdraw from some of their positions around the Donetsk city of Bakhmut.” #ukraine #voanews #counteroffensive #russia
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