The CIA director predicts a slowdown in fighting in Ukraine

National Intelligence Director Avril Haines said on Saturday that the intelligence community expects a continued slowdown in fighting in Ukraine in the coming months and sees no evidence of a decline in Ukraine’s willingness to fight back, despite the attacks on the network electricity and other key infrastructure factors.

“We’re already seeing sort of a slowdown in the pace of the conflict, and we expect that’s probably what we’re going to see in the coming months,” Haines said at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in California.

“Both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries are looking forward to trying to replenish and replenish to prepare for counterattacks after the winter,” the US official said.

“We actually have a fair amount of skepticism as to whether the Russians would be willing to do that or not,” he added.

And about the effect Russian attacks on Ukrainian electricity grid and civilian infrastructure On the other hand, Haines saw that “Moscow aims, in part, to undermine the Ukrainians’ will to resist.” “I think at the moment we don’t see any evidence of undermining (that it will),” she added.

The US intelligence chief accused Iran of having “supplied unmanned aircraft to Russia” and that “Moscow is looking for other types of precision munitions from Tehran”, believing that the issue would be “very disturbing in terms of capabilities” .

Last October, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian confirmed, Your country’s willingness to conduct a joint investigation with UkraineRegarding the allegations that Russia used Iranian drones during combat operations.

“In the past we took weapons from Russia and traded them, but not during the war in Ukraine,” said Amir Abdollahian.

The Iranian Foreign Minister said:Tehran will not supply weapons for use in war in Ukraine at any party.”