Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be a “sentimentalist” in relation to the huge lack of life his troops are going through in Ukraine and believes he can exhaust Ukraine and the West and finally win the conflict, CIA Director Invoice Burns stated Sunday.
Burns, talking on CBS “Face the Nation,” stated the U.S. should present full materials and intelligence assist in coming months to “puncture that hubris on Putin’s half” and regain momentum on the battlefield.
He stated Putin is satisfied he “cannot afford to lose” so he’ll try to tug out the conflict.
“Putin’s view of Individuals, of us, has been that we now have consideration deficit dysfunction, and we’ll transfer on to another situation ultimately,” he stated. “So as a substitute of in search of methods to both again down or discover a well-known off ramp, you understand, what Putin has performed is double down,” Burns stated.
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►Russian forces have attacked nearly two dozen communities close to Bakhmut, a Donetsk area metropolis and the main focus of a lot of the combating in latest weeks. “The adversary retains attacking the positions of Ukrainian troops,” the Ukraine navy stated on Fb. “Enemy offensives have been unsuccessful.”
►Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan, showing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and different Sunday information exhibits, stated america is offering elements for Ukraine’s fleet of Soviet-era jets, however that supplying F-16s “is known as a query for one more day, for one more section” of the conflict.
Russia claims to have destroyed 1000’s of Ukrainian tanks
The Russia Ministry of Protection claimed Sunday to have destroyed 390 Ukrainian airplanes, 211 helicopters, 3,243 drones, 405 air missile techniques, 8,042 tanks and different armored combating automobiles and 1,045 combating automobiles outfitted with a number of launch rocket techniques for the reason that conflict started a yr in the past. The ministry additionally claimed 4,222 discipline artillery weapons and mortars, in addition to 8,556 items of particular navy automobiles, have been destroyed for the reason that invasion started.
The ministry didn’t estimate the variety of Ukrainian troopers or civilians it had killed, nor did it announce its personal losses.
