MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s international intelligence chief stated on Tuesday (Dec 10) that Russia was near attaining its targets in Ukraine with Moscow holding what he stated was the strategic initiative in all areas within the struggle.
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of hundreds of useless, displaced tens of millions and triggered the largest disaster in relations between Moscow and the West because the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster.
“The scenario on the entrance just isn’t in Kyiv’s favour,” Sergei Naryshkin, the pinnacle of Russia’s International Intelligence Service (SVR), instructed Razvedchik, the official publication of the international intelligence company.
“The strategic initiative in all areas belongs to us, we’re near attaining our targets, whereas the armed forces of Ukraine are on the breaking point,” Naryshkin stated.
Naryshkin added that for Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had misplaced legitimacy and “the power to barter”.
Naryshkin, who heads the primary successor organisation to the Soviet-era KGB’s First Chief Directorate, is among the few senior Russian officers to have comparatively common contacts with senior US and Western officers.
His views give an perception into pondering on the high ranges of the Kremlin – which views the West’s help for Ukraine as proof that the US is preventing a proxy struggle in opposition to Russia aimed toward toppling Moscow’s rulers.
US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to finish “the insanity” of struggle.
Zelenskyy on Monday made the case for a diplomatic settlement to the struggle and raised the idea of foreign troops being deployed in Ukraine till it may be a part of the NATO navy alliance.