CIA chief: Ukraine may be defeated by the end of 2024

William Burns, the director of the CIA organization, speaking at the George W. Bush Center in Dallas, said: Ukraine may be defeated by the end of 2024.

There is a very real risk that the Ukrainians could be defeated on the battlefield by the end of 2024, or at least Putin could actually make the conditions one-way,” he said of the debate in the US Congress on allocating more aid to Kiev. to dictate the political solution.

The head of the CIA noted that the armed forces of Ukraine are facing a shortage of ammunition and the United States has time to help Kiev.

Burns said he spoke with a senior officer in the Ukrainian armed forces during his last trip to Ukraine. He clarified: Ukrainian armed forces units were forced to retreat from a town due to lack of ammunition.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Ukraine may run out of air defense missiles if Russia continues its long-range bombing.