CIA boss: Next 6 months are “key” in the war Weapons for Ukraine: These ideas will be discussed in parliament

According to US foreign intelligence, the next six months will determine the outcome of the war in Ukraine. “The key will be on the battlefield for the next six months,” CIA Director William Burns said at an event at Georgetown University, according to media reports on Thursday (local time).

Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting that waning Western interest and political fatigue will give his troops a chance to make a profit on the battlefield.

At a meeting in Turkey in November, Burns said he had already told his Russian colleague Sergei Naryschkin that this calculation would not work. It must be made clear to Putin that “not only will he not be able to advance in Ukraine, but with each passing month he is more and more at risk of losing the territory he illegally seized from Ukraine,” the president said. CIA director. “The next period will be absolutely crucial,” he said.

Information from Western intelligence showed that the Kremlin chief was not really interested in peace talks. “We don’t assume that Putin is seriously interested in negotiations, even though you sometimes hear that,” said the CIA director.

(tononline/dpa)