According to US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin misjudged his war of aggression against Ukraine. “I think he’s a rational actor who miscalculated,” Biden said in an interview, according to CNN. According to the broadcaster, Biden said that while he believes Putin is acting rationally, his goals in Ukraine are irrational. “If you listen to the speech he made after the decision (to make war on Ukraine), he talked about the whole idea that it was necessary to lead a Russia that would unite all Russian speakers. I mean, I think it’s irrational,” Biden said, according to CNN.
Biden also said Putin had wrongly assumed that Ukrainians would submit to a Russian invasion. “I think he thought he would be welcomed with open arms, that this was Mother Russia’s home in Kyiv, and that he would be welcomed there, and I think he completely miscalculated,” Biden said.
Britain’s intelligence chief: Putin is running out of ammo
According to British intelligence, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is increasingly running out of “ammunition” in his “self-imposed war” in Ukraine. This also applies to the weapons and equipment of Russian armed forces fighting in Ukraine. In addition, the support of the Russian population is waning. According to the head of the British secret service GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, people in Russia are increasingly realizing “how badly Putin misjudged the situation”.
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