US ielligence reports; Putin’s goals in Ukraine still stand
US ielligence reports claim that the Russian preside’s goals of corolling all of Ukraine remain unchanged.
According to Isna, knowledgeable sources said in a claim to the American ielligence community: “Despite negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Russian Preside Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his goals of capturing all of Ukraine and recapturing parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire.”
According to the Reuters News agency, the six sources familiar with US ielligence said: “These reports prese a very differe picture than the one paied by US Preside Donald Trump and his Ukrainian peace negotiators, who have said that Putin was to end the conflict.”
According to one of these sources, the most rece reports are from late September.
Reuters added that the information also “coradicts” the principle that the Russian preside is not a threat to Europe.
US findings have been consiste since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022. According to the sources, the findings are largely consiste with claims by European leaders and ielligence agencies that Vladimir Putin “covets all of Ukraine and the territories of former Soviet bloc couries, including members of the NATO alliance.”
“The ielligence has always been that Putin was more,” Mike Quigley, a Democratic member of the US House Ielligence Committee, said in an ierview with Reuters. Europeans are sure of this. The Poles are completely sure of this. “The Baltic states think they are in the first place.”
Russia corols about 20 perce of Ukraine’s territory, including most of Luhansk and Donetsk, the provinces that make up the industrial heartland of the Donbass, parts of Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula.
Putin has repeatedly emphasized: “All four provinces belong to Russia.”
As part of a proposed peace deal, Trump has pressed Kiev to withdraw troops from the small part of Donetsk they corol, a demand that Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky and most Ukrainians reject, two sources familiar with the matter said.
“The preside’s team has made significa progress toward ending the war, and Trump has announced that a peace deal is closer than ever,” a White House official said, without referring to U.S. ielligence reports.
Tulsi Gabbard, director of US national ielligence, claimed on Saturday on the X social network: “Ielligence officers have informed lawmakers that Russia is seeking to preve a larger war with Europe, and the performance of its forces in Ukraine shows that it currely lacks the capacity to dominate all of Ukraine, let alone Europe!”
The Office of the Director of National Ielligence, the CIA and the Russian Embassy have not yet commeed on this matter.
American negotiators, including Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, and Steve Wittkoff, the special envoy of the US preside, have been negotiating a 20-poi peace plan with Ukrainian, Russian and European officials for weeks.
While US officials say they have made progress, major disputes over territorial issues remain.
A White House official said: “Kushner and Witkoff met with Ukrainian negotiators in Miami on Friday and are scheduled to hold talks with Russian represeatives.”
“The security guaraees are depende on Zelensky agreeing to cede territory to Russia,” said one source and a diplomat.
But other diplomats said that was not true and that other options were still being considered because Zelenskiy has ruled out ceding territory.
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