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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Russian President Vladimir Putin had been preparing for his war against Ukraine for at least a year before inciting it and predicted that Putin could most likely carry out a prolonged offensive for “a long time. “
Scholz made the comments in an interview Thursday with moderator and lead foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan, at the NATO summit in Madrid. it’s your firepower to make more profit. Intelligence estimates that Russia lately owns about 20 percent of the country, most commonly in eastern Ukraine.
“When will Russia no longer have the ability to continue this fight?When will Putin run out of weapons, out of funds? Or it can last for years,” Brennan asked Scholz.
No one knows, Scholz replied, but Putin’s long-standing plans suggest he is in a position for a sustained war effort.
“He has, he’s maybe the leader of a very big country with a lot of other people living there, with a lot of means, and he’s doing this brutal war with him, and he’s been preparing for that. “a long time,” scholz says. I think the resolution to make this war was made a year before it started or maybe earlier because I was ready for it. And so the war can continue for a long time. “
Putin’s continued attack on Ukraine tops discussions at the NATO summit this week. Two other countries, Finland and Sweden, are about to join NATO for fear of Putin’s aggression.
“I was looking for less NATO,” Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Putin this week. “Now President Putin has more NATO on his borders. “
More of this interview will air tonight on “CBS Evening News” and Sunday on “Face the Nation. “
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