Digital Bureau, AnyTV, Brussels
Published by: Abhishek Dixit
Updated Fri, 18 Feb 2022 06:25 PM IST
Summary
Western countries say that Russia still maintains its intention to attack Ukraine. Now he can launch the attack anytime.
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Russia continues to deny that it is about to attack Ukraine. But Western countries do not believe his words. The US has been saying since the beginning of this month, quoting its intelligence agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that Russia has made full preparations for the attack. Earlier the US had also said that this attack would happen on February 16. Prior to that, the CIA was quoted as saying that the attack would take place before the end of the ongoing Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. These games are due to end on February 20.
Meanwhile, the CIA’s assessment has been questioned from many quarters after the Russian attack on February 16 did not take place. He has also been ridiculed in some of the comments. Among those who have questioned the credibility of the CIA is the President of the Czech Republic, Milos Ziman. He said in an interview that the CIA has an old record of making false predictions. In an interview given to the Czech newspaper MF Dienes, Ziman said- ‘First the CIA’s talk in Iraq proved to be wrong. No weapons of mass destruction were found there. Then he claimed about Afghanistan that the Taliban would never be able to capture Kabul. And now his third point has also been proved wrong.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has also been raising doubts about the CIA’s assessment. They went on vacation on February 16, when the CIA’s assessment was to have taken place on the same day.
The Chinese state media has also quipped in this matter. There, the pro-government newspaper The Global Times wrote in a comment on Thursday – ‘US intelligence agencies had calculated that on Wednesday, 16 February Russia planned to attack Ukraine. US President Joe Biden gave official information to the European Union and NATO about this. But what actually happened is quite the opposite of the noise made by America. A day before the due date, Russia announced the withdrawal of troops from the Russia-Ukraine border. In this way the balloon of Ukraine war crisis which was inflated by America and Western countries finally burst.