US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken commented on recent events on the battlefields in Ukraine in the context of the end of the war.

According to him, the United States and its allies played a role in the run-up to the counteroffensive, but the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the north-east of Ukraine is primarily the result of the extraordinary courage of the Ukrainians..

" Armed forces and the Ukrainian people. This is the biggest difference. And, as I have already said, fundamentally Ukraine is fighting for its Motherland, for its future.. Russians who are there, no. Ukraine is not theirs. Ukraine does not belong to Russia. It belongs to the Ukrainian people, and this, as I said, is the biggest factor that I think we are seeing right now.. But I think the encouraging progress that Ukraine has made and what I said to President Zelensky on behalf of the United States, and what many other countries continue to affirm, is that we will continue to do what is necessary to support.

Blinken also stressed that Russia's aggression is not only directed at Ukraine, it has affected the whole world..

" We see it in higher food prices, higher energy prices; we also see it in Russia's encroachment on the very principles of the international system that are necessary to maintain peace and security, which should be of interest to every country - the notion that sovereignty matters, territorial integrity matters, independence matters. And I think what you're seeing in countries around the world is a strong desire for this aggression to stop and for the second and third order effects to be reduced as a result.. This is also very important,"

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Recall that in early September, the Ukrainian military launched a counter-offensive campaign in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region.. The rapid advance of the Defense Forces led to the fact that on September 11 the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation admitted that they had lost control over almost the entire occupied part of the region. After some time, the General Staff confirmed that the enemy forces had fled from the Kharkov region.