Putin has created such a power structure, including a chain of his advisers, that he only has the information he wants to hear.
The entourage of the leader of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, gives him false information about the course of a large-scale war against Ukraine and the failures of the military of the Russian Federation. It was reported on Friday, December 23 by The Wall Street Journal.
WSJ reporters based their conclusions on months of interviews with current and former Russian officials and people close to the Kremlin.
The newspaper’s interlocutors pointed out that Putin is surrounded by an administration that “supports his belief that Russia will succeed despite increasing human and economic losses.”
According to the WSJ, Putin receives a written briefing every morning about a “special operation in Ukraine.” However, this information is incomplete, subjective and far from the truth.
“Military commanders report to the FSB, the successor to the KGB, which edits reports for experts at the Security Council, who forward them to the Secretary of the Council, Nikolai Patrushev, the main ” hawk” who helped convince Putin to invade Ukraine. He was the one who passed the reports to Putin,” the WSJ said.
In addition, citing insider information, the publication emphasizes that Putin does not use the Internet for fear of digital surveillance. Sources have commented that this makes Putin more dependent on briefing papers written by ideologically oriented advisers.
WSJ interlocutors close to the Kremlin say Putin still wants to “force Ukraine into submission” and is willing to mobilize the economy and population of the aggressor country for years.
A municipal deputy from St. Petersburg, Nikita Yuferev, appealed to the Prosecutor General and the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to review Putin’s speech and “bring him to legal responsibility for spreading fakes about the actions of the Russian army. “
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Source: korrespondent
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