Putin Lays-off Eight Generals, Enraged By Slow development In Ukraine Invasion
The Ukrainian government claims that eight Russian generals have been fired as a result of the Russian Armed Forces’ gradual and unsuccessful invasion of Ukraine.
Since the start of the conflict, eight Russian commanders have been sacked, according to Oleksiy Danilov, the director of Ukraine’s security council, despite substantial casualties on the battlefield.
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According to another story, Putin is irritated with FSB security service leaders for providing him with intelligence showing that Ukraine was weak, plagued with neo-Nazi groups, and would readily surrender if attacked.
Philip Ingram, a former senior British intelligence officer, told The Times that Putin is obviously ‘very angry’ and is blaming his intelligence agencies.
‘He blames them for seeding him the advice that led to the poor decision-making in Ukraine,’ he said.
That bad advice caused Russia’s military to assault Ukraine less than optimally, resulting in many more losses than intended in a battle that has lasted more than two weeks.
According to Danilov, Putin believed the capital city of Kyiv would fall within two to three days, therefore he dispatched small forces to seize critical locations in the early days.
‘It hasn’t happened and never will,’ he said.
Danilov said ‘desperate’ Moscow has ‘now switched to a different tactic’ by changing leadership.
‘They had about 8 generals removed from their posts because they did not complete the task,’ he told state TV.
Another argument presented in the study is that the organization gathered valuable intelligence but was reluctant to tell Putin the truth, so they doctored their reports to placate him.
‘The problem is that it is too risky for superiors to tell Putin what he doesn’t want to hear, so they tailor their information,’ he said.
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They are now said to be making ‘apocalyptic’ forecasts about the weeks and months ahead as fighting grinds on and punitive sanctions isolate the country.
When asked how Russian politicians were reacting to the crisis, one source told Rustamova: ‘They’re carefully enunciating the word clusterf**k.
‘No one is rejoicing. Many understand that this is a mistake, but in the course of doing their duty they come up with explanations to somehow come to terms with it.’
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, over two million Ukrainian refugees have fled, as cities face shortages of food, water, heat, and medicine – with some having to resort to melting snow for water.
