William Burns, the director of the CIA, said on Monday that although Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions toward Ukraine were unclear, he would not underestimate what he described as the Kremlin’s “appetite” for “Risk”.
“What we do know is that it puts the Russian military and security services in positions from which they could act in a very sweeping way,” Burns said during an event hosted by the Wall Street Journal.
Russia has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia’s foreign policy have been made more than once. He in turn accuses the West of indulging in a series of “challenges”.
Ukraine-Russia relations collapsed in 2014, after Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which Kiev demands to be returned. Some 14,000 people have been killed in fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian army in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Following the unfolding of what Kiev and its Western supporters call a new crisis, Moscow has demanded legally binding guarantees that NATO will not admit Ukraine as a full member state and will not deploy missiles and other military equipment there. material threatening the national security of Russia.
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