President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia still aims to take most of Ukraine, but a breakthrough in the country’s east to other major cities beyond the Donbas remains unlikely in the short term even as Moscow’s forces consolidate their gains, the top American intelligence official said on Wednesday.
The consensus in American intelligence agencies is that the war in Ukraine is likely to go on for an extended period of time, Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, said in her…
