Milley on military casualties in Ukraine conflict

Описание: (15 Jun 2022)
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Brussels, Belgium - 15 June 2022
1. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley during news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) General Mark A. Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
"In the media, you see reported that Ukraine is taking 100 killed and one or two or 300 wounded per day. I would say those are in the ballpark of our assessments. I don't want to give you the actual assessments. And can they sustain that? For Ukraine, this is an existential threat. They're fighting for the very life of their country. So your ability to endure suffering, your inability to endure casualties is directly proportional to the object to be attained. And if the object to be attained is survival of your country, then you're going to sustain it. And as long as they have leadership and they have the means by which to fight - ammunition, artillery tubes, etc. - then I think Ukraine will continue to fight."
3. Austin and Milley during news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) General Mark A. Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
"First of all, the Russians do outnumber in terms of artillery, they outnumber the Ukrainians. The estimates vary. Some say four, five, six to one. Others say ten, 15 to one. Others say 20 to one. What the true accurate number is, I'll keep our assessments in the classified realm. But they outnumber. And that's important. But war is not just a game of numbers. It's how you use them. The Russians are using artillery to just do mass fire on Ukrainian positions, but also civilian populations in urban areas. According to public estimates, some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed. There's seven million internally displaced Ukrainians, there's six million refugees. So the Russians are just doing mass fires without necessarily achieving military effect, shall we say. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, are using much better artillery techniques and they're having a pretty good effect on the Russians. The Russians have lost probably somewhere in the tune of 20-30% of their armoured force. That's significant. That's huge."
5. Austin and Milley during news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) General Mark A. Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
"Ukraine is under threat. They are at war and we will continue to support them. But the rules-based international order is also under threat due to the actions of Russia in the Ukraine. The international community is not allowing this unambiguous act of aggression by Russia to go unanswered. To do so, the risks to the world returning to an era when large, powerful countries can invade smaller countries at will, that is what the international community is up against."
7. Austin and Milley leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday Russia had lost "somewhere in the tune of 20-30%" of its armoured forces during the war in Ukraine.
General Mark A. Milley was commenting on the balance of forces on the ground, with Russians outnumbering Ukrainians in artillery capabilities.
But the US military chief asserted Ukrainian troops were using better artillery techniques to counter their adversaries.
"First of all, the Russians do outnumber in terms of artillery, they outnumber the Ukrainians," Milley said.
The comments came during a joint news conference between General Milley and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, ahead of a meeting in Brussels of more than 45 nations to discuss support for Ukraine
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