US Joint Chiefs Chairman: "Significant Support for Ukrainian Forces Will Continue"

[Asia Economy Reporter Minyoung Kim] The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff stated that Russia has violated the international rules established by the Allies after World War II, and the West will continue to support Ukraine in response.

According to the Associated Press on the 6th (local time), Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Normandy American Cemetery, which he visited to mark the 78th anniversary of the Normandy landings, “The U.S. military and its allies are providing substantial support to Ukraine, and I believe this will continue going forward.”

The Allied forces, including the United States and the United Kingdom, launched a massive landing operation on June 6, 1944, on the northern coast of Normandy, France, which was occupied by German forces, deploying 156,000 troops. It was the largest landing operation in history, with over 4,400 soldiers losing their lives on the first day alone.

Chairman Milley condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine as a violation of the rules established by the Allies after World War II.

He said, “One fundamental principle of the order based on the ‘global rules’ is that no country should use military force to attack another country unless it is pure self-defense.” He added, “What is happening in Ukraine now is not that; what has occurred in Ukraine is clearly an act of aggression.”

He emphasized, “Acts of aggression violate the rules for which those who fought and risked their lives here at Omaha Beach and the national cemetery stood.” Omaha Beach was the site of the fiercest battles during the Normandy landings and contains over 9,400 American graves.

Chairman Milley stated, “Kyiv is 2,000 kilometers away from here, but it is facing the same fears that French citizens had to endure during World War II because of the Nazis.”

He continued, “As the capital Kyiv successfully resisted (the Russian attacks), Russia had to move its military forces southward to Donbas in eastern Ukraine,” explaining that “a significant scale of fighting is taking place in Donbas.”

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