Senior officials in the Joe Biden administration have disclosed that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels he was misled by his military leaders by withholding details about the failed invasion of Ukraine for fear of angering him.
“We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about the poor performance of the Russian military and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions, because his top advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth”, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield told reporters. his military leadership.
The statement by the director of the White House coincides with the statement made by a US official to NBC: “(Putin) did not even know that his army was using and losing recruits in Ukraine, revealing a clear failure in the flow of accurate information to the Russian president”.
The fact that there is tension between Vladimir Putin and his top brass has come to light at a crucial moment where the Kremlin has changed strategy after failing to achieve its initial ambition: to overthrow the Ukrainian government and install a puppet regime.
Now Russia has made it known that it has sent 190.000 soda to Ukraine was to “protect” the Russian-speaking Ukrainians in that country.
The leak of information about how Vladimir Putin feels, as well as the Russian army, makes it more visible every day that among the Russians there is a “mole” that at the end of the day represents a calculated risk.
“If the Ministry of Defense keeps Mr. Putin in the dark, when he finds out the truth, when he really starts to realize how badly his army is doing in Ukraine, he doesn’t know what kind of reaction he’s getting. cause in him,” said Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.