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John Ratcliffe: “Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine. When I came in as CIA…”

Featuring: John Ratcliffe, Republican | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | National

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Published | Video Starts at 06:52

And even more telling with respect to that is if you look the advancements that Russia made into Ukraine initially, right Now Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine. When I came in as CIA director 18 months ago, Russia occupied 19% of Ukraine. So the pace of their advance has stopped as Ukraine's mastery of emerging technologies and in this case drone warfare, asymmetric warfare is such a great equalizer and shows why … (06:52–07:05)

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Asserts that Russia's occupation of Ukraine increased from 19% to 20% over 18 months.

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