White House official on Ukraine: ‘Time is not our friend’

“Time is not our friend,” said US National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told a press briefing while commenting on Ukraine’s situation, Report informs.

He said that Ukraine has about six to eight more weeks of decent weather for a counter-offensive: “And we want to make sure that the Ukrainians can succeed.”

“But — but we know that the counteroffensive has not gone as far or as fast as even the Ukrainians want it to. It’s still a violent fight on two major lines of axes — one in the Donbas area and one down south — the south of Zaporizhzhia,” Kirby added.