National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said an early morning Russian missile strike in western Ukraine just 11 miles from NATO territory “does not come as a surprise.”…
“This does not come as a surprise to the American intelligence and national security communities,” Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“What it shows is that Vladimir Putin is frustrated by the fact that his forces are not making the kind of progress that he thought that they would make against major cities including Kyiv, that he’s expanding the number of targets, that he’s lashing out and he’s trying to cause damage in every part of the country,” Sullivan added.
Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby said on ABC’s “This Week” that it’s the third military facility or airfield that the Russians have hit in western Ukraine.
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