Putin's bet on outlasting West "wrong" - U.S. State Department

That’s according to U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who spoke at a press conference in Washington on Thursday, Ukrinform's own correspondent reports.

"You heard President Putin I believe, for the first time confirmed something that we have said. You've heard us say from the beginning of this campaign that Vladimir Putin’s bet was that he could outlast the West and that the West would weaken, the West would stop supporting Ukraine," Miller said.

The State Department spokesman recalled that the American side assessed the Kremlin's approaches in exactly this way, and on Thursday Putin practically admitted that he had bet on this very thing.

"We have made clear that we believe that bet is wrong. And we believe that he will not outlast the West and he will not outlast the United States of America. And now it's up for the United States Congress to prove that that is wrong," said the spokesperson for the U.S. State Department.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the U.S. Congress is still considering President Joe Biden's national security supplemental funding request, including more than $60 billion in support of Ukraine.