“The West got it so right and Russia did it so wrong in terms of pre-war information in Ukraine. Now, according to a Russian intelligence expert, President Vladimir Putin is looking for the spy who struck him. “We are hearing some new rumors and more information about an obvious hunt for a traitor inside the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, because many people are wondering right now in Moscow why US information was so accurate and so accurate before the invasion.” , said Andrei Soldatov.
Soldatov believes that the United States and NATO have learned the details of Russian planning from more than just electronic interception, because he says Russia has a Byzantine system and the way decisions are made is never clear. So Putin would assume that someone sang. And it would be convenient to hang his military losses on this man.
Ukrainian freelance journalist Volodymyr Solohub believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin can attack the press at any time. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
“It’s a very Russian way of solving your problems, as if something really went wrong. It’s always good to blame a traitor because then you’re fine. You’ve done nothing wrong. It ‘s all about a traitor.” Soldatov, who has studied and written for the FSB for many years, said that when the top searches for moles, they dig the entire yard mercilessly to maximize the information dump. According to the Bellingcat research team, 150 FSB members have either been liquidated or arrested in recent weeks.
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Soldatov says he is trying to confirm the information, but it would actually fit a pattern. What Soldatov believes is that Sergei Besenta, the head of the FSB’s fifth service, which has been tasked with keeping the former Soviet republics sweet, has been transformed from house arrest to the bars of the infamous Lefortov prison where . place in the hands of the NKVD, the secret police of Joseph Stalin. If Lefortovo is really where Besenta is, it sends a message to anyone who is even thinking of leaving the line.
But Soldatov says there is also a practical reason to keep him there. “The Russian prison system is very corrupt. So once you’re inside, you can find a way to communicate with the outside world. You can get your iPhone and you can make a call. So, almost, anything is possible, “But not in Lefortovo. In Lefortovo people can remain completely unknown. And as far as I know, he is basically being held there under a false name and there will be no choice but to communicate with the outside world.” Soldatov says, officially, it seems that the accusations against Besenta are embezzlement, but he believes that this may suit the authorities rather than announcing an overt hunt for a coat.
The Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region after being targeted (State Special Communications and Information Protection Service of Ukraine)
Soldatov tells Fox News that the noise he is getting from his sources is that many in the security services, even the military, are blaming not only the Fifth Service for failures in this war, but also Vladimir Putin himself. “In 2014, when we had the first stage of the invasion of Ukraine, everyone was happy with the way it was going … happy with Putin and on the same page,” he said.
Many inside were also in favor of the latest intervention, but he added, “they blame Putin and the Fifth Service especially for doing so in a way that caused so much trouble, damage and casualties.” Does that mean, I ask, that they are ready to turn to Putin? “Right now, they are building that distance between them. But that does not mean they are ready to do anything about it, because there are so many things against it. Lack of tradition. The KGB has never been very good at conspiracy and conspiracy.” “The only time they tried in 1991, it was a disaster because middle-level officers did not support the KGB leadership to get rid of Gorbachev. For the army, it is even worse.” says Soldatov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a room before a meeting of the Victory Organizing Committee in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 17, 2015. The meeting focuses on preparations for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II. (Sergei Ilnitsky / AFP via Getty Images)
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Soldatov says what he finds even more striking, and perhaps even ominous, at the moment in terms of security is that he says Putin has really turned against his troops.
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“The most amazing thing is that Putin decided to attack his own people. He trusted these people for 20 years. Even before the war, he started attacking and humiliating the head of his foreign intelligence service. Two weeks later, he attacked the FSB Three. “Weeks later, he attacked the National Guard. This is something completely new.”