Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele has stated Vladimir Putin can t survive defeat in Ukraine as the Russian president faces mounting tensions at home over his army s failures.
The assault caught the Russian lines by surprise at a vulnerable section of their front in an attack that threatens an important supply hub used by occupying Russian forces in the east.
Swiftly advancing Ukrainian troops were bearing down on the main railway supplying Vladimir Putin s forces in the east on Friday, after the sudden collapse of a section of Moscow s front-line
Director William Burns said that Putin had erred in underestimating Ukrainian will and ability to resist his invasion, and he continues to fatally underestimate the resolve of the West to support Kyiv.