Putin not being told the truth on Ukraine - UK intelligence agency

Putin not being told the truth on Ukraine

The head of the UK's cyber and security agency, GCHQ, believes Russia has massively misjudged the situation in Ukraine and some of Vladimir Putin’s advisers are not telling him the truth, Qazet.az reports.

Sir Jeremy Fleming has given a rare speech during a visit to Australia in which he said that Russian soldiers ‘short of weapons and morale’ had refused to carry out orders, sabotaged their own equipment and even accidentally shot down their own aircraft.

Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, he said, but what's going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime.

"It all adds up to the strategic miscalculation that Western leaders warned Putin it would be. It's become his personal war, with the cost being paid by innocent people in Ukraine and, increasingly, by ordinary Russians too."