US fears Vladimir Putin could throw fit and escalate if Kyiv attack fails

As Russian forces attempt to encircle Kyiv, the Biden Administration is increasingly concerned that if Russia’s efforts to capture Ukraine’s capital city are not as successful as Russian President Putin hopefully, the situation in Ukraine can twist further.

US intelligence has suggested that Putin’s likely plan is to encircle and then capture Kyiv – with hopes and dreams of installing a pro-Kremlin regime in Ukraine – but things did not go according to plan.

A senior US defense official told reporters on a call Monday. “They have been slowed down and they have been frustrated by their lack of progress towards Kyiv.”

And with that frustration comes consequences, the official warned.

“We certainly note that frustration could lead to a more aggressive approach by the Russians,” the official said, suggesting that Putin could escalate his forces’ tactics. “One of the things that could lead to a re-evaluation of their tactics and the potential for them to become more active and more public in terms of both size and scale of targeting Kyiv.”

The alarming warning of Putin’s possible fury comes after Russia watchers have voiced warnings about Putin’s activitiesfrom him angry speech began his invasion of Ukraine, to disregard for human and civilian life in Ukraine, to put its nuclear forces on high alert.

Leaders around the world are increasingly realizing how deranged Putin can be, and taking steps to show other countries what kind of person he is. Biden Administration Has Announced Plans personally punish Putin last week, putting him on a par with other dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. In the latest interview, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Nations, compared Putin to Adolf Hitler, seemingly suggesting that Putin commits suicide just as Hitler did a year after Western Allied troops fell. entered Normandy, France, and pushed the Germans back to Berlin.

“If [Putin] If he wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to resort to a nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in… 1945,” Kyslytsya said Monday at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on the Russian invasion.

According to the official, as of Monday, Russian forces were still about 25 kilometers from Kyiv – just under five kilometers from this weekend. And along the way, they had some setbacks.

The Biden administration is uncertain whether this delay is due to a lack of planning or because they delivered too quickly and failed to execute their plan properly. But they are certainly running out of gas, the US official said.

“Fuel and sustainability are the only challenges facing them right now,” the senior US defense official said. “Our indications are that they have had to depend on fuel and sustainability earlier in the process than we believe they planned… they are running out of gas and they are having problems. logistics”.

According to the official, part of Russia’s problems with maintaining forces is due to Ukraine’s resistance. Ukrainian officials say Ukrainians are protesting strongly in many Ukrainian cities that Putin wants to get his hands on.