Vladimir Putin’s assumptions about Ukraine, Europe and his own military strength have turned out to be “profoundly flawed”, William J Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has said. Burns added that Putin was determined to “dominate and control Ukraine, to shape its orientation”. “He has been stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years,” he said.
He said: “He believed he had sanctions-proofed his economy in the sense of creating a large war chest of foreign currency reserves” and that European countries were distracted and risk-averse.
In it, they argue that Russian President Vladimir Putin had wrongly assumed that Ukraine was not a real country, and that Russia’s neighbours were determined to destabilise it.
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