🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials during his visit last month that continuing the war could push Russia’s economy into a Soviet-style collapse, FAZ reports.

A diplomat described the U.S. assessment as concluding that “Russia is losing the war.”

U.S. intelligence saw the battlefield moving toward a stalemate while concluding that Russia could not sustain the war economically in the longer term.