Vladimir Putin 'entirely too healthy' says CIA chief

The director of the CIA has dismissed persistent rumours that Russian President Vladimir Putin is gravely in poor health, maybe affected by most cancers, by saying Putin is "totally too wholesome." 

Talking on the Aspen Safety Discussion board in Colorado, William Burns pressured that this was "not a proper intelligence evaluation," however given his experience with Russia - Burns served as America's ambassador in Moscow from 2005 to 2008 - it would actually give pause to these Putin opponents who hoped for indicators that he may quickly die from an undisclosed illness. 

"There's numerous rumours about President Putin's well being and so far as we are able to inform he is totally too wholesome," including "that is not a proper intelligence judgment."

Burns stated that Putin's personal views about Ukraine, and particularly the need of the Ukrainian folks to withstand the Russian invasion, have been primarily based on "some profoundly flawed assumptions." 

"Putin actually does imagine his rhetoric, and I've heard him say this privately over time, that Ukraine isn't an actual nation. He believes that it is his entitlement, Russia's entitlement, to dominate Ukraine."

'Dumb Russians are all lifeless'

Giving an replace on Russian casualty figures, the CIA director stated that round 15,000 Russian troops had been killed thus far, with roughly 45,000 wounded and described them as "fairly vital" losses. 

"The Ukrainians have suffered as nicely, in all probability rather less than that, however vital casualties." 

Director Burns stated that the Russian army has tailored after vital tactical failures in the beginning of the invasion and that one Ukrainian contact had instructed him "the dumb Russians are all lifeless", which means the Russians on the bottom who made battlefield errors had paid the final word value, and the Russian army had since realized to adapt. 

Russian forces had been concentrating on the japanese Donbas area over the past 90 days, stated Burns, advancing between six and 10 miles in that point. 

"However it's come at nice price, and it has been very painful to each side," he added.