WASHINGTON: William Burns, director of the US intelligence agency CIA, says that Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine has proved to be completely wrong. The CIA chief said that Russia is fighting a losing war in Ukraine. Whose decision is only a matter of time? William Burns said Putin had underestimated Ukraine’s resolve when he decided to strike in February.
According to a report in The Guardian, William Burns told a conference in Washington that Vladimir Putin’s decision not only exposed the weakness of the Russian military but was going to cause long-term damage to the Russian economy and generations of Russians. Ukraine’s military has made significant progress in its first major counterattack since spring. He has pushed back the Russian army from several settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address on Thursday that Ukrainian forces have retaken more than 1,000 square km of territory from the Russians since early September. Our heroes have already liberated dozens of settlements. Balaklia, a city of 27,000 residents in Ukraine, has been recaptured.
Whereas on Friday, a Russian official in the Kharkiv area admitted that Russian soldiers were on the back foot. In Russia too, now this perception has started forming about the war, it may have to face defeat. A former Russian army officer and a right-wing Russian blogger who supports the government have said that ‘we have already lost.’ Igor Girkin, a radical nationalist, said in a video on Telegram on Monday that ‘we have already lost Well, the rest is just a matter of time. The war in Ukraine will continue until the complete defeat of Russia.’ Girkin has previously been a colonel in the Russian intelligence service.
