{"id":8849,"date":"2023-12-22T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:08:46","slug":"nato-russia-suffers-strategic-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/nato-russia-suffers-strategic-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO: Russia Suffers \u2018Strategic Defeat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has suffered a major \u201cstrategic defeat\u201d in the Ukraine war, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.<br \/>\nSpeaking to German media, Stoltenberg said Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to achieve its goal to prevent Ukraine from coming closer to Europe.<br \/>\n\u201cPutin wants a Europe in which Russia can dominate its neighbors. But Ukraine is now closer than ever before to NATO and the EU. This is a major strategic defeat for Russia,\u201d he told German news agency dpa.<br \/>\n\u201cPresident Putin has lost Ukraine forever. In addition, Russia has lost hundreds of aircraft, thousands of tanks, and 300,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded,\u201d he claimed.<br \/>\nStoltenberg acknowledged that the Ukrainian army\u2019s counteroffensive has failed to deliver its expected results but underlined that Western nations will continue to support Ukraine.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, most experts feared that Russians would take control of Kiev within days \u2013 including experts here at NATO. Since then, the Ukrainians managed to liberate 50% of the territory which was occupied,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cUkrainians have won major battles in Kiev, Kharkiv and Kherson \u2013 these are remarkable military victories. Ukraine has asserted itself as a sovereign, independent state, and inflicted heavy losses on Russia in the process,\u201d Stoltenberg said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Russia has suffered a major \u201cstrategic defeat\u201d in the Ukraine war, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. Speaking to German media, Stoltenberg said Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to achieve its goal to prevent Ukraine from coming closer to Europe. \u201cPutin wants a Europe in which Russia can dominate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}