CIA Director: We Don’t Know What Putin Has Decided on Ukraine

US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns has said that American intelligence agencies have yet to conclude decisively that Russia will invade Ukraine, adding that they do not know what Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided.
“I would never underestimate President Putin’s risk appetite on Ukraine,” Burns said at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit on Monday.

“We don’t know that Putin has made up his mind to use force,” he added. “But what we do know is that he’s putting the Russian military, Russian security services in a place where they could act in a very sweeping way.”

US and NATO military officials have claimed that Russia could be contemplating such an invasion of Ukraine, citing, what they call, “unusual” Russian troop movements near the border with Ukraine.

Russia has repeatedly said it was free to move its troops around within its own borders but stated that its military buildup is not provocative. Russia said it is taking defensive measures against Ukraine’s closer alliance with the West and aspirations to join NATO.

Source: Press TV