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Military researcher on protracted war: 'Putin will have to make some unpleasant decisions' | Abroad | DR President Putin faces a difficult dilemma if he wants to continue the fight, Danish expert believes, after a US intelligence chief said yesterday that Putin is preparing for a long-term conflict. Even if Putin gains control of the Donbass region, This is not the prospect of an end to the war in Ukraine. longer conflict in Ukraine, where he is still trying to achieve goals beyond the Donbass region, it sounded from Avril Haines, among others. that Putin may well feel pressured to use more drastic methods. This is because Putin's ambitions do not match the performance that the country's military can provide. It writes, among other things. At the same time, the assessment is that Putin had expected that the Western countries' support for Ukraine would decrease as the countries struggle with rising - including rising energy prices. During the consultation, it also emerged that the Americans are is in a stalemate.Anders Puck Nielsen, a military researcher at the Defense Academy, agrees that Vladimir Putin is under pressure. He is most concerned with Avril Haine's assessment that Putin's actions in the coming time will be unpredictable, rather than that the fighting will drag on. According to him, Russia will not be able to continue a long-running struggle with the same intensity as now in for years. This is because Russia does not have the resources to do so. - He will have to make some unpleasant decisions and invest more in the war, or face the fact that it is not possible. At the moment, the Russians must lead with lights and lanterns to increase recruitment. - In the long run, he will face a choice to deploy them, and it will be problematic domestic policy and hugely unpopular, says Anders Puck Nielsen. Conversely, the Ukrainians are still dependent on weapons and support from the West, he explains.- It is. There is a need to maintain the pressure so that you can put the pressure on Putin in those dilemmas, says Anders Puck Nielsen. At the moment, the Russians and Ukrainians are fighting in the Kharkiv region, where the Ukrainians have recaptured several villages.