The moves of the Russian army were revealed in advance, the request for the Kremlin to halt all operations, and then the escape route offered to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Wall Street Journal has published a reconstruction of all the steps William Burns has taken in recent months. Born in 1956born on a military base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has been on fire ever since January 2021 He was appointed Director of the CIA by Joe Biden. According to the Wall Street Journal, his role would have been crucial, at least in the Ukraine crisis two episodes. The first is placed at the beginning of the last November, when he called Vladimir Putin to ask him not to go ahead with his plan to invade Ukraine. The head of the CIA matured between relations with Russia 2005 and 2008, when he was United States Ambassador to Moscow. The two would have heard on the phone, thanks to an encrypted line. Putin would have denied any intention of arriving in Kyiv, but even on this occasion he would have said that Ukraine is not a real country, but only a political decision of Lenin. The same theses that the Kremlin boss used to justify months after the invasion.
TO January Instead, Burns would travel to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyi directly. Here, now safe from the attack decided by Putin, he would have explained in detail all the Russians’ plans. According to reconstructions of the Wall Street Journal, Putin wanted to take possession of the Gostomel airport north of the capital in the first days of the war. Here he would send all the troops needed to encircle Kyiv. The plan would have failed precisely because the Ukrainian army and the secret services were already aware of the Russian intentions. Not only. Russia would also have hoped for help from within, and in particular from parts of the Ukrainian army that would work with the Kremlin. help that never came. In all these reconstructions, an offer made directly by the CIA to Zelenskyy was also clarified. In the early days of the conflict, the United States would have offered the President an escape route, but he would have chosen to stay. the February 26th, reports the Associated Press, Zelenskyi said to Washington: «The battle is here. I need ammo, not a ride.’
