As the director of the CIA said he saw “a form of recklessness, excessive pride” in the boss of the SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service)
Faced with difficulties of his army in Ukraine, o Vladimir Putin he knows he cannot win the war at present, but he is convinced that he will win a final victory with war of attritionrefusing to consider any other option, her manager estimated C.I.A William Burns.
“Putin, in my opinion, thinks today that he cannot win immediately, but he cannot afford to lose“, said the director of the CIA in an interview he gave to the American news television network CBS.
“Currently,” says Burns, “I think Putin is absolutely determined” but has “overconfidence in his ability to exhaust Ukraine».
And instead of thinking about a way out, the Russian president is “persisting and signing on” to his war, according to Burns, the former US ambassador to Moscow.
His November meeting in Turkey with his Russian counterpart Sergei Naryskin was “disheartening”, he also stressed.
As the CIA director said he saw “a form of recklessness, excessive pride” to the head of the SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), whom he met to warn him against any recourse to nuclear weapons and not to negotiations, the starting point of which “will be decided by the Ukrainians».
Source :Skai
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