Tuesday 10 May 2022 03:56 PM Putin is preparing for a 'prolonged conflict' in Ukraine, Biden's spy chief ... trends now

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Vladimir Putin is preparing for a 'prolonged' war in the Ukraine, President Joe Biden's spy chief warned on Tuesday, and he will grow more 'unpredictable' and 'escalatory' in his invasion. 

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned the fighting will grow worse and that Putin will expand his reach beyond the Donbass region in southeast Ukraine.

'The next month or two of fighting will be significant as the Russians attempt to reinvigorate their efforts,' Haines said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Lt. General Scott Berrier, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Directory, described the war in Ukraine as at a 'stalemate.'

'I think I would characterize it as this. The Russians aren't winning. And the Ukrainians aren't winning. We're at a bit of a stalemate here,' he said in his testimony.