Putin believes that Ukraine will fall in months without US help: Senate Intel Chair

• The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Mark Warner said that Putin believes that Ukraine will fall in a few months.
• Warner received his review from US intelligence after senators blocked $175 million in aid.
• “Vladimir Putin’s hope for victory depends on the US walking away from Ukraine,” he said.

The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence, Mark Warner, said that Vladimir Putin believes that Ukraine will fall within a few months without the renewal of US military aid.

Sen. asked. Warner, “Why, at this point in time, are we going to prove Putin right?”

Warner make the statement on Wednesday after the Senate failed to reach the 60-vote required to extend a new “significant” military aid to Ukraine.

“Vladimir Putin’s hope for victory rests on the US walking out of Ukraine,” Warner wrote.

The $110bn package proposed by President Joe Biden that provided $61bn for Ukraine, as well as funds for Israel and aid for Gaza, was blocked.

Republican senators want the package to include protecting America’s borders.

The Democratic senator from Virginia praised Ukraine for “destroying the military and morale of one of our greatest geopolitical enemies in Russia Vladimir Putin without losing a US or NATO soldier.”

But all Senate Republicans voted against it, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who raised concerns about funding Israel’s “current military campaign” against the Palestinians, for Reuters.

In what book in the Senate Democratic Caucus the day before the election, Sanders expressed deep concerns about the provision of $ 10.1 billion for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to “continue their destructive military plans , which has already killed 16,000 Palestinians, 70 percent of them women and children,” he said.

Republican senators, for their part, blocked the package because there were no tough measures to stop immigration at the US-Mexico border, for Reuters.

After the election, President Joe Biden echoed Warner’s words: “Republicans in Congress are willing to give Putin the best gift he can hope for and abandon our leadership to the whole world, not only in Ukraine, but beyond that,” according to Mt.

The crisis could play right into Putin’s hands, as the war appears to have reached a critical stalemate on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. , Business Insider’s Paul Squire reported.

Only 0.2% of Ukraine’s land changed hands from January 1 to September 25, according to an analysis by The New York Timesbased on data from the Institute for the Study of War.

And the Ukrainian resistance has not been able to reach a significant point despite six months of hard fighting, Business Insider’s Chris Panella reported.

Congressional delay in providing aid to Ukraine will “make it impossible to continue the liberation of the territory and create a high level of loss of the war,” Andriy Yermak said. , head of the office of the president of Ukraine, in The New Voice of Ukraine.