During an interview with MSNBC aired on Thursday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley stated that the endgame in the Russia-Ukraine war is for "the Ukrainians to decide" and that it's extremely difficult for Ukraine to achieve its stated objective "for every single Russian to leave every single inch of Ukrainian territory" militarily this year, and "maybe, if we're lucky, touch wood, the diplomats will enter the fray here and they'll get to a negotiating table at some point."