Vladimir Putin is 'convinced' that Russian forces 'doubling down' in their assault on Ukraine will enable them to progress, CIA director Bill Burns said today
"He's in a frame of mind in which he doesn't believe he can afford to lose," said Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, at the FT Weekend Festival in D.C. ahead of"We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons," Burns said, according to AFP.
"Given the kind of sabre-rattling that … we've heard from the Russian leadership, we can’t take lightly those possibilities.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said week it "would be a great irony if Moscow used the occasion of Victory Day" which commemorates the Russians' World War II victory over the Nazis to officially declare war on Ukraine. It "would allow them to surge conscripts in a way they're not able to do now, in a way that would be tantamount to revealing to the world that their war effort is failing, that they are floundering in their military campaign and military objectives," Price added.
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