Avril Haines: “there are going to be moments when you--in your analysis--your agency's analysis is going to differ from the policy…”

Our analysts assess that Putin is unlikely to be deterred by such setbacks and instead may escalate essentially doubling down to achieve Ukrainian disarmament neutrality to prevent it from further integrating with the U.S. and NATO.

Putin is unlikely to be determined by such setbacks and may escalate essentially doubling down to achieve Ukrainian disarmament neutrality to prevent it from further integrating with U.S. and NATO if it does not reach some diplomatic…

Russia's failure to rapidly seize Kyiv and overwhelm Ukrainian forces has deprived Moscow of the quick military victory that probably had originally expected.

the intelligence community is continuing its investigations into what happened in these situations.