First signs of weakening US support for the war in Ukraine. Neither the Americans nor the Europeans will send hundreds of tanks to the Ukrainian army

Usually when Washington sends the head of the Central Intelligence Agency to a friendly capital it means that the most delicate issues in the relationship between the two countries must be discussed.
CIA chief William Burns’ visit to Kiev last weekend, which was his second visit in three months, in which he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and the heads of the Ukrainian military and intelligence, was not the only meeting between an American official and a Ukrainian official that week.
On Wednesday 12.1, meet in PolandChief of the American Armed Staff General Mark Milley Gen. Mark A. Milley With the Ukrainian Chief of Staff General Valery Zalosny General Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
The frequency with which the heads of the American intelligence and military system meet with the heads of the Ukrainian system indicates the discomfort in Washington with the way the war in Ukraine is being conducted and especially with the lack of signs that the war is going to end soon.
Both Burns and General Milley made it clear to their Ukrainian interlocutors that the American public’s support for the war was decreasing and that the opponents of the war and the broad involvement of the United States in it in the American Congress grew stronger after the Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives.
The head of the CIA and the head of the armed staff made it clear to the Ukrainians that the United States will not send 300 heavy tanks to the Ukrainian army and that there is a limit to the American economic aid in the war which within a year has reached 50 billion dollars.
All this is happening while the Russian army is recruiting another 330,000 soldiers in preparation for the big spring offensive which it is about to launch when the snow melts in the spring of this year.
Western military observers estimate, Because this Russian attack can determine the fate of the war, and without Ukraine receiving hundreds more tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, missiles and advanced anti-aircraft systems, it cannot win it.
On Friday, January 20, the German foreign intelligence agency, the BND, issued a warning about the large number of casualties that the Ukrainian army has suffered in recent days in the battles around the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. According to this intelligence assessment, several hundred Ukrainian soldiers were killed in battles every day of the last week. This is a number of losses that the Ukrainian army is unable to absorb, German intelligence warned.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov continued to say that supplying Western tanks to the Ukrainian army will not change anything in the war. ‘One should not exaggerate the importance of such supplies in terms of the ability to change something,’ Paskov said.
NUkrainian record Ludmir Zelensky took a similar line on Friday. In a letter he sent to the Western defense ministers gathered at the American Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Zelensky wrote: ‘I can thank you hundreds of times, but hundreds of thanks are not hundreds of tanks’, I can thank you hundreds of times but hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks.