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CIA presses for a Ukrainian offensive by the end of the year
2024-03-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] CIA chief William Burns said at a hearing of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that new US military assistance to Ukraine will enable an offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and “penetrating strikes on Crimea” at the end of 2024.

Burns believes that the next aid package, which cannot be agreed upon in Congress, will return the “offensive initiative” to the Ukrainian army, and Kyiv will also be able to negotiate “from a position of significant strength.”

“US military assistance will provide Ukraine with the capabilities for penetrating strikes in Crimea and actions against the Russian Black Sea Fleet,” the head of the CIA said.

If the United States refuses to help Ukraine, then, according to Burns, Kyiv will suffer significant territorial losses this year.

As Regnum reported, Ukraine does not need the French military; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing difficulties with a shortage of ammunition. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, stated this in an interview with the BFMTV channel.

The statement by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) about the preparation of a “serious military operation” in Crimea is an attempt by Kiev in the information space to show its supposed success. This opinion was expressed on March 11 by a military expert, head of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Andrey Koshkin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on January 16 that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which began on June 4, 2023, had completely and absolutely failed.
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Posted by:badanov

#6  /\ You're the man IRB. Make it SO !
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-12 16:58  

#5  TLAs we should abort... DOJ,FBI,CIA,DOE
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-03-12 16:46  

#4  #1 and the old American republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-03-12 11:24  

#3  ^ Dollar General has the advantage that they do not need to overthrow the local government before setting up shop. And while penetrating strikes on the Crim will generate a lot of "Putin humiliated" headlines in the Daily Mail, it really won't do much to change the course of the war.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-03-12 09:50  

#2  Dollar-General does not have the market cornered on business development expansion. The Klingons are hard at work supporting Multi-State solutions everywhere.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-12 06:35  

#1  I thought CIA was bussy with overthrowing Israeli government?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-12 05:18  

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