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Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly placed one of his top intelligence officials on house arrest, a move that one expert tells Fox News Digital would be a sign that he is seeking to shift blame for a Ukrainian invasion that U.S. intelligence believes has not gone according to plan.
According to a report from the Sunday Times, Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov claims that Putin has arrested the head of the Federal Security Service, Sergey Beseda. Fox News has not independently confirmed this.
Putin, in the wake of Biden’s comments, says Russia knows “how to defend our own interests.”
(Reuters)
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Beseda has reportedly been placed on house arrest along with his deputy Anatoly Bolyukh.
The Federal Security Service, known as FSB, is Russia’s top security and counterintelligence apparatus. One former U.S. intelligence officer tells Fox News Digital that the move signals Putin’s dissatisfaction with his intelligence community’s assessment of the Ukrainian invasion.
“It means that Putin is angry and recognized that he was not provided with accurate intelligence,” Rebekah Koffler, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency agent and author of “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America”, told Fox News Digital about the significance of the report.
Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine,
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian human rights activist, confirmed the arrests in the Sunday Times report and said that FSB agents carried out searches at more than 20 Moscow addresses of colleagues who are suspected of contacting journalists.
“The formal basis for conducting these searches is the accusation of…
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