The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian leader had made to President Donald Trump in a Monday phone call.
The CIA’s director John Ratcliffe briefed Trump on the assessment Wednesday, the officials said.
Sources said Ratcliffe later briefed Trump that the CIA did not believe it was true. And on Wednesday, Trump appeared to have adopted a more skeptical posture toward posting, posting a link to a New York Post editorial on Truth Social with the headline, “Putin ‘attack’ bluster shows Russia is the one standing in the way of peace.” The Post’s editorial board noted it was “rich that Putin, who has waged a brutal war for nearly four years, believes that any violence in his vicinity merits special outrage” and asserted that “Any attack on Putin is more than justified.”
I wouldn’t care if Ukraine deployed the fucking Hammer of Dawn onto all of Putin’s properties and every Russian government building.
Russia is the aggressor and Putin is a fascist tyrant. The Russian state must be liquidated and Putin should be either executed or sentenced to life by the Hague.
But what if it was?
Russia would quite happily kill zelenski given any chance and when peace does come, with Putin left in power, I guarantee you that he’ll try to assassinate zelenski at the first possible moment
Sorry, but not sorry, Putin is a legitimate target and if killed might end this war (not to mention make the world a little better even)
Let them kill Putin, I only see upsides. This has nothing to do with him being Russian or whatever, this is him being a megalomaniac dictator who loves murdering people all the fucking time. How many people have been assassinated by now in Russia? How many outside Russia? Putin is a fucking menace to anyone, he needs to go
I think the issue was that Putin wasn’t there at the time. Only his daughter (i think) was, or possibly some other close member of his family.
Apart from that, I agree that Putin is a perfectly valid target, commander in chief and all that.
So what if they targeted him? He’s a war criminal, a legitimate target.
It matters if future security guarantees are conditional on Ukraine not attacking Russia. If Russia can claim they were attacked without any fact checking now, they might do the same in the future when it matters more. Showing Russia that their claims are not automatically believed is positioning for the future.
Fair
Fucksake, yes. If there were a fund I could donate to specifically for financing drones to target every place that SOB lies his head, I’d be writing checks to it today.
In countries where the military is aggressively attacking non-combatants in other countries, their war criminal leaders are the most legitimate targets imaginable.
Life isn’t exactly like chess, in that in life, it’s not always enough to eliminate the king. But, if you keep eliminating king after king until somebody reasonable assumes control, it seems like the least bloody way to end conflict.
Stepping on the tail only angers the snake. In order to defeat it, one must strike at the head.
Soldiers are killed on the battlefield. Kings are ransomed.
Should be the other way around. It’s the kings who want war. Not the soldiers.
Oh, absolutely. But that world doesn’t exist.
The Russians were LYING? I don’t know what to say, I really thought higher of them.
Must be the first time they have done such a thing!
Eh Trump will call the CIA fags and say Putin’s far more trustworthy
Or have them link it to Venezuela in some way so they can blow up more ports.
Or have them link it to Venezuela in some way so they can blow up more ports.
If only the POTUS would wait to hear from his intelligence officials before making public comments based on the word of an evil, lying, psychopathic dictator…
Regardless, you can count on Trump to repeat whatever Putin tells him to say.
Russians are lying? Who would have guessed?
No shit. If Ukraine were going to do, they’d still be trying to dig putins corpse out of a pile of rubble
My assumption is that since magically every single drone without fail was shot down and they masterfully saved the mansion from this devastating attack is that… Russia sent the drones themselves at the mansion so they could shoot them down and blame Ukraine for attacking “civilian” targets, because Russia would never attack civvies.
5 people fired at the CIA in 10… 9…
Too bad.
obviously
it makes no strategic sense to attack one of his many fun-houses
chuuuu
Well, if the CIA says it…
Well, if Putin says it…
Fucking obviously Ukraine didn’t waste ordinance on one of his fake houses. He lives underground where he belongs.
It’s a Russian friendly source, so may be believable.
