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Putin Still Plans To Capture Most Of Ukraine – US Intelligence

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  • Putin still has the same goals as the ones he held at the start of the conflict, the US’s top intelligence officer said

  • Russia is unlikely to achieve that goal any time soon

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that US intelligence agencies believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to capture most of Ukraine.

Moscow’s troops have been so weakened by combat, however, that US officials assess they are only capable of making slow territorial gains.

It means the war could last for a long time, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines says.

In March Moscow refocused its efforts on seizing Ukraine’s Donbas area after failing to take Kyiv and other cities.

Putin still has the same goals as the ones he held at the start of the conflict, the US’s top intelligence officer Ms Haines said – to take most of Ukraine.

But, she says, Russia is unlikely to achieve that goal any time soon.

“We perceive a disconnect between Putin’s near-term military objectives in this area and his military’s capacity, a kind of mismatch between his ambitions and what the military is able to accomplish,” she told a US Commerce Department conference.

Since failing to achieve its initial goal of capturing Kyiv, Russia has focused on seizing territory in the eastern Donbas region – a large, industrial area where Mr Putin falsely claims Ukraine has carried out a genocide against Russian speakers.

FURTHER READING

Russian forces have made gains there, recently taking control of the city of Severodonetsk, but progress has been slow and Ukrainian forces have put up strong resistance.

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