Russia’s invasion of Ukraine does not seem to be going according to plan, and President Vladimir Putin seems to intend to blame his former colleagues at the Federal Security Service (FSB) – the KGB successor to the intelligence service – for the stalemate. Putin has reportedly fired more than 100 agents from the FSB, and his government has sent the head of the department in charge of Ukraine to prison. RUSSIA INVASES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES About 150 FSB officers have been fired, the Times of London reported on Monday. The expelled agents belonged to the Fifth Service, a division that Putin – then director of the FSB – set up in 1998 to conduct operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with the aim of keeping those countries on the orbit of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to female flight attendants in comments broadcast on state television on Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Reuters Video) Authorities placed Sergei Besenta, the former head of the Fifth Service, under house arrest last month. He has since been transferred to the FSB-run Lefortovo prison in Moscow, the Times reported. The NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, used the prison for interrogation and torture during the Great Stalin Liberation in the 1930s. The move sent a “very strong message” to other elites in Russia, Andrei Soldatov, an expert at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), told the Times. FBI SUPPORTS RUSSIAN MILITARY HACKERS, ENJOYING BOTNET IN WAR OF UKRAINE “I was surprised by that,” Soldatov said. “Putin could easily have just fired him or sent him to some regional job in Siberia. Lefortovo is not a nice place and his mission is a message of how seriously Putin takes these things.” In this image from the video provided by the Presidential Press Office of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022. (Press Office of the Ukrainian Presidential Press via AP) Soldatov suggested that the Russian authorities may suspect that Beseda had passed information to the CIA. Analysts have previously told Fox News that Beseda’s house arrest sentence appeared to be a form of retaliation for misinformation in Ukraine. Soldatov said the Fifth Service represented “the most sensitive part of the FSB, which is responsible for espionage in Ukraine. And now it seems that Vladimir Putin has finally realized that the information he was given before the invasion was not exceptional.” “And he has started looking around trying to find someone to blame.” UKRAINIAN INFORMATION PUBLISHES NAMES OF MORE THAN 600 ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPIES While Russian troops are fighting to gain ground in Ukraine, Moscow is also waging an information war. The US FBI announced last week that it had shut down a Russian military hacking system to set up a “botnet” on victims’ devices in the US and elsewhere. At the end of last month, the Ukrainian intelligence service was released a supposed list of more than 600 Russian spies. Rep. Ritchie Torres, DN.Y., is called the FBI to investigate the Russian Diplomatic Compound, based in New York, which experts had previously told Fox News Digital that it houses housing diplomats who are in the US to spy on America. View of the Russian Diplomatic Complex at 355 West 255th Street. Insert: Russian President Vladimir Putin (Getty Images) (Getty Images / Google Maps) “We are terrified and worried about Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked offensive against Ukraine. “We are terrified of his war crimes against the Ukrainian people, and in this context I formally asked the FBI to launch an investigation into allegations of espionage in the Russian diplomatic corps,” Torres told reporters Tuesday about the white high-rise tower. located at 355 West 255th Streetin the Bronx. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION The Bronx Democrat called it “both a metaphorical and a literal surveillance structure.”
title: “Putin Purges More Than 100 Fsb Agents In Apparent Retaliation Amid Ukraine Invasion Quagmire " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Elenora Miller”
Putin has reportedly fired more than 100 agents from the FSB, and his government has sent the head of the department in charge of Ukraine to prison. RUSSIA INVASES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES About 150 FSB officers have been fired, the Times of London reported on Monday. The expelled agents belonged to the Fifth Service, a division that Putin – then director of the FSB – set up in 1998 to conduct operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with the aim of keeping those countries on the orbit of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to female stewardesses in comments broadcast on state television on Saturday, March 5, 2022. Reuters video Authorities placed Sergei Besenta, the former head of the Fifth Service, under house arrest last month. He has since been transferred to the FSB-run Lefortovo prison in Moscow, the Times reported. The NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, used the prison for interrogation and torture during the Great Stalin Liberation in the 1930s. The move sent a “very strong message” to other elites in Russia, Andrei Soldatov, an expert at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), told the Times. FBI SUPPORTS RUSSIAN MILITARY HACKERS, ENJOYING BOTNET IN WAR OF UKRAINE “I was surprised by that,” Soldatov said. “Putin could easily have just fired him or sent him to some regional job in Siberia. Lefortovo is not a nice place and his mission is a message of how seriously Putin takes these things.” Soldatov suggested that the Russian authorities may suspect that Beseda had passed information to the CIA. Analysts have previously told Fox News that Beseda’s house arrest sentence appeared to be a form of retaliation for misinformation in Ukraine. Soldatov said the Fifth Service represented “the most sensitive part of the FSB, which is responsible for espionage in Ukraine. And now it seems that Vladimir Putin has finally realized that the information he was given before the invasion was not exceptional.” “And he has started looking around trying to find someone to blame.” The story goes on UKRAINIAN INFORMATION PUBLISHES NAMES OF MORE THAN 600 ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPIES While Russian troops are fighting to gain ground in Ukraine, Moscow is also waging an information war. The US FBI announced last week that it had shut down a Russian military hacking system to set up a “botnet” on victims’ devices in the US and elsewhere. At the end of last month, the Ukrainian intelligence service was released a supposed list of more than 600 Russian spies. Rep. Ritchie Torres, DN.Y., is called the FBI to investigate the Russian Diplomatic Compound, based in New York, which experts had previously told Fox News Digital that it houses housing diplomats who are in the US to spy on America. “We are terrified and worried about Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked offensive against Ukraine. “We are terrified of his war crimes against the Ukrainian people, and in this context I formally asked the FBI to launch an investigation into allegations of espionage in the Russian diplomatic corps,” Torres told reporters Tuesday about the white high-rise tower. located at 355 West 255th Streetin the Bronx. The Bronx Democrat called it “both a metaphorical and a literal surveillance structure.”
