Meanwhile, the senior U.S. defense official said the immense column of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles appeared to be stalled roughly 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Kyiv and had made no real progress in the last couple of days.
The convoy, which earlier in the week had seemed poised to launch an assault on the capital, has been plagued with fuel and food shortages and has faced fierce Ukrainian resistance, the official said.
How many miscalculations does Putin get before his fellow kleptocrats decide it's time to “retire” him?
Or will he negotiate a ceasefire with Zelenskyy, call it victory, and work on salvaging the Russian economy?
The longer Kyiv and Kharkiv put up a fight, the worse it gets for Putin.
A report from an anonymous 'senior U.S. defense official' is not my idea of unbiased information. AP is every bit as much of a propaganda source as RT. Unnamed sources? No thank you. Here's The Saker's latest update: http://thesaker.is/one-week-into-the-russian-special-operation-in-the-ukraine-update/ I've been following Andrei for many years and he's proven time and time again to be a reliable source. He's a former Swiss intelligence analyst who specializes in Russian affairs (and speaks the language).
Right on!
He planned to fill up in Kyiv in a day or two. Well, plans being plans...
A report from an anonymous 'senior U.S. defense official' is not my idea of unbiased information. AP is every bit as much of a propaganda source as RT. Unnamed sources? No thank you. Here's The Saker's latest update: http://thesaker.is/one-week-into-the-russian-special-operation-in-the-ukraine-update/ I've been following Andrei for many years and he's proven time and time again to be a reliable source. He's a former Swiss intelligence analyst who specializes in Russian affairs (and speaks the language).