Washington Post: A close associate of Putin “sang” about mistakes in the war in Ukraine

THE war in Ukraine not evolving based on the original Moscow plan and narrow partner of Vladimir Putinreportedly directly expressed his protests about the mistakes that have been made throughout this time.

Specifically, the Washington Post claims that US intelligence agencies in one of their standard briefings informed US President Joe Biden about the details of the disagreements and the name of the person who disagreed with Putin, without mentioning his name.

According to the publication, the person in question conveyed to the Russian president the reservations that exist in relation to the organization of the operation, the inefficient administration and the mistakes made by the military commanders. In particular, according to US intelligence imgs, people from Putin’s circle are not satisfied with the losses that Russia has and the major mistakes in the operation of the Ministry of Defense that the war revealed.

As the newspaper points out, incidents involving people from Putin’s “immediate entourage” who directly disagreed with him earlier had not been made known. The new information from the intelligence services, combined with recent statements by Russian officials, suggests the existence of disagreements at the highest levels of power, the newspaper writes, apparently in light of the public criticism of the Ministry of Defense by people perceived to be close to Putin such as (Chechen leader) Ramzhan Kadyrov and (founder of the Wagner paramilitary organization) Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov he said that the information of the American intelligence services about the person from Putin’s close circle, in which he “directly provoked Putin” “absolutely does not correspond to reality”. Yet himself admitted the existence of “labor disputes” in the Russian leadership saying that such disagreements are not a sign of a split.