Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register The British Defense Intelligence Service believes that Russia’s dynamics in the war in Ukraine will slow down in the coming months as its army runs out of resources, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of European newspapers. In comments published Wednesday by the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Johnson said that President Vladimir Putin’s forces were pushing forward in the eastern part of Donbass, causing damage but at heavy cost to soldiers and weapons. “Our defense intelligence, however, believes that in the coming months, Russia could reach a point where there is no future impetus because it has depleted its resources,” Johnson was quoted as saying in an interview. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register “Then we have to help the Ukrainians reverse the momentum. I will support that at the G7 summit (in Germany at the weekend),” he said. “As long as the Ukrainians are able to launch a counterattack, they should be supported. With the equipment they demand from us,” he said. Asked what a victory for Ukraine or a failure for Putin would look like, Johnson said: “That at least we can restore the status quo that existed before February 24 and that its (Russian) troops are being repulsed by the areas they invaded “. The interview was also given to the French Le Monde and to Italian and Spanish newspapers. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Madeline Chambers Edited by Gareth Jones Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
