U.S. Secretary of Condition Antony Blinken on Sunday explained that Russian President Vladimir Putin has presently failed in his strategic objective "to erase" Ukraine and close its independence right after extra than four months of conflict.

Blinken appeared on CNN’s "State of the Union" ahead of the annual G-7 summit in Germany, and was requested irrespective of whether Russia was winning the months-extended conflict adhering to right away assaults on the Ukrainian cash of Kyiv.

"When it will come to Putin’s strategic objectives, he has now unsuccessful," Blinken explained. "His strategic goal was to finish Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence, to erase it from the map, to subsume it in Russia. That has failed."

Blinken added that "a sovereign, independent Ukraine will be all around a lot for a longer time than Vladimir Putin is on the scene."

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The secretary of state’s remarks occur as Ukrainian officers said that Russia released missiles on Kyiv, hanging at least two residential structures and damaging a close by kindergarten. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin usually takes element in the BRICS Business enterprise Discussion board by using video clip meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo home outdoors Moscow. (Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photograph by means of WHD)

Ukraine’s typical prosecutor's office explained preliminary data indicated a person individual was killed and 4 injured Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko explained 4 people today have been hospitalized with injuries and a 7-calendar year-outdated woman was pulled alive from the rubble.

Meanwhile, Blinken explained "a tactical, ferocious battle" raging in Japanese Ukraine, where by Ukrainian forces are engaged in pushing back Russian forces.

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U.S. Secretary of Point out Anthony Blinken addresses the media throughout a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 24, 2022.  (WHD Image/Michael Sohn)

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"And that line has shifted, there are gains a single way, gains another way," the secretary of condition mentioned. "But what's really important is the strategic proposition that Putin will not do well in what he's tried using to achieve."

Blinken mentioned that while Putin has also experimented with to divide NATO, the alliance will fulfill at the G-7 summit wherever the nations will exhibit their unity and power. 

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