Russian President Vladimir Putin has not necessarily given up on trying to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, even as Russia has shifted its focus in recent days to southern and eastern Ukraine, according to US and Western officials
Over the next few weeks, officials expect Russian forces to resupply and reposition with the aim of launching a brutal new offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. "They will be rearmed, because they've used a lot of ammunition," Stoltenberg said,"and they will be resupplied with fuel and all the things they need, food and so on, to launch a new big offensive.
"Russia's goal, in the end, is to weaken Ukraine as much as possible," he said.US, European and Ukrainian officials told CNN that they don't believe Russia is negotiating with Ukraine in good faith, and that the talks are little more than a"smokescreen." The officials also said they don't believe Putin has abandoned his goal of removing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Western-aligned government in Kyiv.
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