Posted on 06/24/2024 7:12:47 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reported to have replaced an official within his Federal Security Service (FSB) who laid the groundwork for his country's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Sergei Beseda, 70, who served as head of the Federal Security Service's (FSB) fifth directorate, has been replaced by Alexei Komkov, who formerly worked as deputy head of the spy agency, Russian investigative news website Important Stories reported on Saturday, citing two sources.
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Putin reportedly relied on intelligence from the FSB's fifth directorate when he launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The fifth service is largely in charge of providing information about Ukraine's political situation, gathering intelligence inside Russia and on former members of the Soviet Union.
Beseda was reportedly placed under house arrest in 2022—days after the war began—after falling out with Putin. Andrei Soldatov, a leading expert on the country's security services, said at the time that the FSB attempted to downplay Beseda's arrest, "presenting it as a mere questioning of the powerful general."
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You were supposed to conquer Ukraine more than 2 years ago. Lol!
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“ You were supposed to conquer Ukraine more than 2 years ago. Lol!”
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Dude, I have zero interest in conquering Ukraine or any other country. I DO, however, as an American patriot have an interest in the U.S.A. not being continuously having debt piled on it along with not having American taxpayers’ money being PLUNDERED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS. Others such as yourself, on the other hand, are engaged in RELENTLESSLY PROMOTING the PLUNDERING OF AMERICA’S DWINDLING WEALTH BY FOREIGN ENTITIES,
Tell your Biden to tell your Elensky to withdraw what's left of the Ucrazian army from the future Russian Federation oblasts of Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa.
Putin’s “Victory Day” offensive? Lol! Kharkiv in 3 days!
It’s okay to admit Putin’s military sucks.
The “narrative” at the time was that Beseda told Putin that the Ukrainians would welcome the Russians as liberators, and that he had agents in place in Ukraine, with secret stores of fuel, food, and ammunition, for which Russia had paid billions of dollars. In fact, Beseda had merely padded his Swiss bank account, and had neither agents nor supplies in place, and the very last thing the Ukrainians looked on the Russians as was liberators.
The report of the 70-year old Beseda being arrested and now replaced comes from a Russian source. It is unlikely to be Ukrainian propaganda. Putin never would have initiated the latest war if he had had any idea how it was going to turn out. His, and other Russian officials’ intemperate statements have stampeded Finland and Sweden in NATO after seventy years of strict neutrality. That is not Ukrainian propaganda, it is simply facts on the ground.
Putin screwed the pooch. But he had help from his “intelligence” agencies. Russian intelligence agencies may be as screwed up as the CIA.
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