The administration of US President Joe Biden is developing an action plan for Ukraine for 2024, which will focus on defending the territories held by Kiev rather than on the return of lost land, The Washington Post has quoted sources among US officials as saying. This was reported by The Washington Post with reference to sources among US officials.
According to The Washington Post, the White House’s plan for 2024 on the Ukrainian issue, which is being developed, is “dramatically” different from last year’s plan. The newspaper noted that in 2023, the US administration’s idea was to train Ukrainian troops, supply Western equipment, and, as a result, Kiev was supposed to push back Russian forces. However, “these efforts failed,” mainly because of Russia’s heavily fortified minefields.
“President (US President Joe – ed.) Biden’s administration, still reeling from the failed counteroffensive in Ukraine last year, is developing a new strategy that will not focus on regaining territory, instead focusing on helping Ukraine repel new Russian offensives while moving toward the long-term goal of strengthening Ukraine’s military and economy,” the publication said.
WP sources stressed that “the Biden administration is working on a long-term strategy to support Kiev despite funding difficulties in Congress.” According to The Washington Post, “these plans do not involve significant acquisitions of Ukraine” as far as aspirations to regain control of lost territories are concerned.
“It is quite clear that it will be difficult for them (Ukrainian forces. – ed.) to try to make the same kind of major push on all fronts that they tried to make last year,” the US official summarised.
We shall remind you that earlier, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada committee for national security, defence and intelligence, Yehor Chernev, said in an interview with the New York Times that there was a growing fear in Ukraine that the army would soon start losing control over populated areas if Washington delayed the allocation of new military aid to the Ukrainian government.