Russia has "
complete air superiority
" in Ukraine and wants to amass "
overwhelming force
" around the capital Kiev, a senior Western intelligence official said on Thursday.
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“
Ukraine's air defenses are now gone and they have no air force left to protect themselves.
The Russians will seek in the next few hours to massage an overwhelming force around the capital and the defense now falls to the ground forces and the popular resistance
, ”explained the official.
Russian troops will be massed around Kiev "
in a matter of days, if not tomorrow morning, at the rate we are advancing
", he stressed.
“
There is not much time left.
I think a lot will depend on the resistance of the Ukrainians
”.
“
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told me this morning that Russia wants to decapitate the government in Kiev and replace it with a puppet government
,” Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa said on arrival for an extraordinary EU summit in Brussels.
"
When you see what's happening on the pitch, that's what's happening
," he added.
