White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has claimed that it was too early to make a call on what the results of Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations would be, insisting that despite losing a “significant” amount of forces, Kiev still has “substantial” reserves to throw into battle.
When asked whether “the real counteroffensive is yet to come” at the Aspen Security Forum in Washington D.C. on Friday, Sullivan insisted that the counteroffensive began “the day the first Ukrainian put their life on the line.”
“There have already been significant amounts of casualties and deaths of Ukrainian fighters in this counteroffensive, so it is well underway. And it is hard going. And we said it would be hard going,” the White House adviser told the forum’s moderator Edward Luce.