Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and huffs and puffs and TRIES

to Blow the House Down

In March Moscow refocused its efforts on seizing Ukraine’s Donbas area after failing to take Kyiv and other cities. Mr Putin still has the same goals as the ones he held at the start of the conflict, the US's top intelligence officer Ms Haines said - to take most of Ukraine. But, she says, Russia is unlikely to achieve that goal any time soon.

In March Moscow refocused its efforts on seizing Ukraine’s Donbas area after failing to take Kyiv and other cities. Mr Putin still has the same goals as the ones he held at the start of the conflict, the US’s top intelligence officer Ms Haines said – to take most of Ukraine. But, she says, Russia is unlikely to achieve that goal any time soon.

— BBC News Online

– BBC News Online

Credit: Dan Sperrin

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