Marking the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, CIA director William Burns stated Russian President Vladimir Putin was “completely too assured” in considering he may power the steadfast nation into give up.

Burns sat down with CBS’s Margaret Brennan,

the place he mentioned the intelligence group’s perspective on Russia’s plan ahead within the conflict. He stated his conversations with Sergey Naryshkin, the pinnacle of Russia’s International Intelligence Service, have been “dispiriting,” and that Russia displayed a conceit that didn’t mirror Ukraine’s persistent protection.

“It was a defiant perspective on the a part of Mr. Naryshkin as nicely a way of cockiness and hubris, reflecting Putin’s personal view,” he stated. “He believes he can grind down the Ukrainians and put on down our European allies, that political fatigue will finally set in. In my opinion, Putin’s view of Individuals we’ve obtained consideration deficit dysfunction and we’ll transfer on to a different situation finally. Putin, in some ways, I feel, believes at present that he can’t win for some time, however he can’t lose.”

He additionally reiterated the U.S.’s help for the war-torn nation, mirroring feedback Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan made on a number of Sunday discuss reveals. Each interviews adopted intelligence studies that indicated China was contemplating supporting Russia’s efforts with ammunition and autos.

In a Meet the Press interview, Sullivan stated the U.S. was dedicated to supporting no matter Ukraine’s model of victory appeared like, however he demurred when he was requested to outline it himself. He additionally stated the U.S. wouldn’t decide to sending F-16 plane to the nation.

He additionally wouldn’t say whether or not the U.S. would help efforts to reclaim Crimea, even when Ukraine, because it has previously, declares it as a part of a win.

“The essential factor proper now could be that they should take again the territory within the South and the East that they’re at the moment centered on. And we have to give them the instruments to have the ability to do this,” Sullivan stated. “The place we’re proper now could be that we must be centered on the instant time period, as a result of it’s essential that we transfer quick and we transfer decisively to assist them take again the territory throughout that line of contact that Russian troops are at the moment occupying.”