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Putin's Anger Turns on his spy chiefs and FSB

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A Russian spy chief is said to have been placed under house arrest in a sign that President Putin is seeking to blame the security services for the stalled invasion of Ukraine

Kremlin arrests FSB chiefs in fallout from Ukraine chaosThe defenestration of several senior spies is a sign of Putin’s growing fury towards the intelligence serviceshttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1647065591-1

Sergey Beseda, head of the FSB’s foreign intelligence branch, was arrested with Anatoly Bolyukh, his deputy, according to a leading expert on the Russian security services, who said that sources from within FSB had confirmed the detention of both men.

Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian human rights activist, also confirmed the arrests. He added that FSB officers had carried out searches at more than 20 addresses around Moscow of colleagues suspected of being in contact with journalists

“The formal basis for conducting these searches is the accusation of the embezzlement of funds earmarked for subversive activities in Ukraine,” Osechkin said. “The real reason is unreliable, incomplete and partially false information about the political situation in Ukraine”

The spy chief’s defenestration attests to Putin’s growing fury towards the intelligence services, which he believes provided false information over the situation in Ukraine, Soldatov said. “Putin has finally understood that he was misled,” Soldatov told The Times.
 
Personally, I hope that he fires more of his military and intelligence brass.

Eventually, the remaining ones will think: "It's time to 'retire' this nut case."
 
I don't believe that Putin was mislead. He has authored his own dark essay's on Ukraine.

But he is beginning to look for scapegoats.
 
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