{"id":1908413,"date":"2023-04-01T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milley-says-ukraine-unlikely-to-retake-all-of-its-territory-this-year\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:43:23","slug":"milley-says-ukraine-unlikely-to-retake-all-of-its-territory-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milley-says-ukraine-unlikely-to-retake-all-of-its-territory-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Milley says Ukraine unlikely to retake all of its territory this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmilley-says-ukraine-unlikely-to-retake-all-of-its-territory-this-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>Gen. Mark Milley, Who is Chairman of the Joint Staff, has stated that it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to accomplish its goal of regaining all its territory that fell under Russian occupation, by the end of this year.  <\/p>\n<p>This assessment aligns with his earlier assessment in the fall. It is significant given Kyiv&#8217;s stated goals of pushing out all Russian forces from Ukraine while also regaining Crimea. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Defense One on Friday, Milley said, \u201cI don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s likely to be done in the near term for this year,&#8221; adding, &#8220;You&#8217;re looking at a couple hundred thousand Russians who are still in Russian-occupied Ukraine. I&#8217;m not saying it can&#8217;t be done. I&#8217;m just saying it&#8217;s a very difficult task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The front lines of the war are currently in the town of Bahkmut, located at the eastern part of Ukraine. The fighting has been ongoing in the city for months, with both sides suffering significant casualty counts. Milley informed lawmakers this week that the Russian army is getting hammered in the vicinity of Bahkmut.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also expressed concern over the will of the Ukrainian people to continue the fight if they lose Bakhmut, explaining that \u201cOur society will feel tired if they lose Bakhmut. Our society will push me to have a compromise with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Ukraine\u2019s significant asks of the United States is to provide ATACMS long-range missiles as part of its military aid, but the Biden administration has failed to fulfill it, citing inadequate supply stockpiles of ATACMS missiles. Milley also explained in the same interview that only a few ATACMS missiles are available with the American military, and they need to maintain a sufficient munitions inventory. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Joint Chief warned this week that the U.S.&#8217;s munition inventory is at risk and thus needs DOD attention. He explained that &#8220;If there was a war on the Korean peninsula or great power war between the United States and Russia or the United States and China, the consumption rates would be off the charts,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m concerned. I know the secretary is &#8230; we\u2019ve got a ways to go to make sure our stockpiles are prepared for the actual contingencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-banner-ad-g\"><\/div>\n<p>The department is planning to invest $30 million in the industrial base in the 2024 fiscal year budget to ensure \u201cbuy the maximum number of munitions that American industry can produce.\u201d, added Austin during the same hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Staff, believes it&#8217;s unlikely that Ukraine will accomplish its goal of recapturing all of its territory that&#8217;s under Russian occupation by the end of the year. Milley&#8217;s assessment, which is in line with a similar assessment of his from the fall, is a stark one given Kyiv&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[13116,23321,9225,6991],"class_list":["post-1908413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-milley","tag-retake","tag-territory","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}