Putin 'has no sustainable political end game in the face of what is going to continue to be fierce resistance' from Ukraine's military, director of national intelligence Avril Haines said.
and will seek to"escalate" his country's aggression against Kyiv in the coming weeks, top U.S. intelligence leaders said Tuesday.
Haines said Moscow had encountered"significantly more resistance" from Ukraine than it had anticipated, and that it would be"especially challenging" for the Russians to hold and control Ukrainian territory in the face of what would likely be a"persistent and significant insurgency." Burns, the CIA director, said that Mr. Putin had been for years stewing in a"combustible combination of grievance and ambition," and had embarked on a military invasion based on a number of flawed assumptions.
"He is likely to double down and try to grind down the Ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties," he added, predicting"an ugly next few weeks."
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