US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Burns (William Burns) Picture: Taken from CIA Twitter (file photo)
Russia’s violation of Ukraine was severely sanctioned by democratic countries. The impact on Russia’s economy emerged one after another, and the people were deeply affected. The Russian army sent to Ukraine to kill was even more dead and injured. According to the statistics of the Ukrainian authorities, since the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russian war in February, the Russian army has lost 51,900 people and lost 2,122 tanks, 4,575 armored vehicles, 239 jets and 211 helicopters. The invasion of Ukraine was the “biggest and enduring failure” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s hard to think of the war record, Putin’s record, as anything other than a failure,” CIA Director William Burns said at a cybersecurity conference in Washington on Tuesday. He asserted: “Russia will It will pay a heavy price.” And pointed out: “Not only will the vulnerability of the Russian military be exposed, but it will also cause long-term damage to the Russian economy and generations of Russians.”
This is not the first time the top U.S. intelligence official has issued a blunt assessment, warning that Russia’s war on Ukraine is having the opposite effect on Moscow. U.S. National Intelligence Director Avril Haines bluntly stated in June that Russian ground forces “have been weakened in many ways to the point that it will take years to return to past levels.” Ding negotiated at least a temporary truce. And Putin not only did not listen to persuasion, but also strengthened the distorted idea of aggression.
Putin, who traveled to Vladivostok, once Chinese territory, to attend an economic forum on the 7th reiterated that he was forced to send troops to Ukraine to protect Moscow-backed pro-Russian breakaway areas that have been with Ukrainian forces since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. fight. He argued: “It is not the military operation that we started, we are trying to stop it.” He also declared: “In the longer term, it will help strengthen our country at home and abroad.” And claimed: “Russia has not and will not lose anything”.
Burns responded on the 8th that he expected the Ukraine war to prove Putin wrong. He speculates that “Putin’s bet is that he will be tougher than Ukrainians, Europeans and Americans,” adding: “Putin’s view has always been, we have ADHD, we’ll be distracted. “Putin’s bet was wrong, just as he was horribly wrong in February last year about Ukraine’s willingness to resist, the West and the United States and all our partner countries to support the Ukrainians,” he stressed.