The US State Department says reports that Washington wants Ukraine to change its strategy to achieve total victory in a war started by Russia are untrue.

“No. This is not true,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said during the briefing, answering a question about whether the US wants Ukraine to change its strategy, abandoning the desire for complete victory.

Politico in late December quoted an unnamed Biden administration official and a European diplomat as saying that U.S. and European officials were shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory in the war , which was unleashed by Russia, to improving its position in possible negotiations to end the war. .