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On the 17th day of the war in Ukraine, Russian forces are expanding their offensive for the first time in the west of the country. Major cities, including Dnipro and Lutsk, were bombed on Friday. The attacks have intensified further northeast and east of Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed the head of the FSB foreign service and his deputy under house arrest.
Reason: Intelligence failures, where his army suffered a series of embarrassing losses in Ukraine.
Andrey Soldatov, a respected Russian intelligence official, said sources inside the FSB had informed him that Sergey Beseda, 68, the agency’s foreign service chief, had been arrested on Putin’s orders.
Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda’s deputy, was also arrested.
Soldatov went on to say that Putin was ‘really unhappy’ with the agency – which he ran before becoming president.
The Russian president is said to have blamed the agency, which assured him before the invasion, that Russian forces would face only symbolic resistance from the Ukrainian army and that the Ukrainians themselves were eager to get rid of their leaders.
Among the reasons for the repression are the misappropriation of funds allocated for subversive and covert work in Ukraine, as well as deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine.
In fact, the Russian armed forces have faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian soldiers, who have fought them to the brink.
Earlier it was said that Putin had fired his top generals and that he was ‘furious’ as intelligence had failed and poor strategy saw his troops suffer a series of embarrassing losses in the early days of the war in Ukraine.
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