Putin gets outdated reports about war in Ukraine, decorated with FSB - WSJ

The head of the Russian Federation does not go into the Internet, fearing tracking, so he studies only written reports that fall on the table for several days. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not understand the complexity of the situation in Ukraine because he receives outdated information adorned with his administration. About it writes The Wall Street Journal, referring to officials from the US and Europe.

According to some sources close to the Kremlin, new information about hostilities gets to Putin in a few days, so it becomes outdated. The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces report from the front line before the FSB, which edits reports for experts in the Security Council, they submit to the Secretary of the Council Mykola Patrushev, and he already sends the final reports to the presidential table.

According to a former Russian intelligence officer, Vladimir Putin wakes up about 7 am daily to study the written reports of war in Ukraine, where successes and reduced failures are decorated. Sources from the US and Russia added that the President has not gone on the Internet for a long time, fearing digital tracking, so he was forced to trust only paper documents drawn up by like-minded advisers. At the end of September, Russian troops lost the battle for the city of Lyman in Donetsk region.

The Armed Forces, as a result of the offensive with the support of foreign artillery, surrounded poorly equipped parts of the Russians, but Vladimir Putin ordered not to retreat from Moscow from Moscow against the orders of the generals. On October 1, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation still departed after fierce fighting, having suffered great losses in live strength and equipment, as well as left a lot of weapons to Ukrainians.

According to WSJ, Putin's bad awareness of the real state of affairs at the front was guilty. The Presidential Administration staff support the political leader's confidence that Russia will be able to win, despite the victims and economic losses through the war. Many exiners from Russia and people close to the Kremlin told WSJ that Vladimir Putin has built a system in Russia that would flatter and decorate information.

The President himself does not want to believe in Ukraine's ability to resist and win, having many like -minded people in the Kremlin. Some Russian officials, journalists and analysts tried to reach Vladimir Putin for months and inform him of real failures in Ukraine, but the administration did not allow them. All summer, military experts and weapons manufacturers left meetings with Vladimir Putin, doubting that he sees the full picture.

However, in the fall, after the obvious lesions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the President decided to receive "raw" information from the front, for this he gathered a working group from state television journalists, military correspondents and propagandists. With his decree published in December, Putin ordered the officials to help these experts make a monthly report on the mobilization of Russian troops.

Due to misinformation, Vladimir Putin still intends to conquer Ukraine, even if he has to sacrifice the Russian economy and the population for several years. According to experts, if the event reduces military and economic assistance, and the morale of Ukrainians will fall, then Russia will still be able to win in the war.