Avril Haynes. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 10 The US is seeing a decline in protest activity in Russia and evidence of popular support for the military operation in Ukraine, said National Intelligence Chief Avril Haynes. «I know many of us have seen protests that flared up after the invasion, and the crackdown that followed in Russia, including the passage of laws providing for very significant penalties in case of protests… We saw that they were actually reduced,» she said at a congressional hearing.
U.S. canceled Elbe meeting. She claims that one of the reasons for this was «the selectivity of information that reaches the population.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» Donbass.
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