U.S. intelligence officials are gun-shy about making predictions. But 'Putin has to be contemplating his own survival at this point,' says one. ✍️ warkin 🔗:
's Ukraine campaign has been so dramatic, U.S. intelligence officials who are normally gun-shy about making predictions are ready to look ahead. Three American government officials tellthat the Russian leader is in serious trouble at home as a result of Kyiv's successful counteroffensive. Angered by the rising cost of the war, by soldiers' deaths and the economic pain of sanctions, Russian politicians and social media influencers are speaking out openly in opposition.
Ukraine's offensive has been"expertly executed," a senior defense official said in a briefing to reporters. On the western end of the front in Kherson region, 450 kilometers to the south, Russian forces find themselves increasingly isolated as a result of Ukrainian artillery and missile strikes that have severed three key bridges over the Dnieper River.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen during his joint press conference with Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki and Latvian President Egils Levits on September 9, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Today, Zelensky called a Russian missile attack on hydraulic structures in Kryvhi Rih part of a"war against civilians."President Zelensky was reluctant to crow too much."The question is not how long this will be, but how much more is needed," he said in ainterview last weekend.
"Putin's options for the future are bleak, particularly as he increasingly feels the heat of domestic opposition," says the first intelligence official. The official cites the impact of 60,000-plus Russian casualties and as well as the bite of sanctions and the controls on travel as challenges to Putin.
U.S. intelligence is not prepared to cite a timetable for Russia's military defeat, and President Biden cautioned this week as well that the Ukraine war"could be a long haul."
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