Putin is not reported bad news: US General estimated the Armed Forces raid in Kursk region

He also believes that the onset of defense forces on the Russian Federation was also conditioned by the fact that the Russian President Putin was not reported by bad news. About it writes "Telegraph". Ben Gogess immediately noted that the Allies of Ukraine did not know all the goals and should not know them. "The Ukrainian Government and the General Staff worked very well on the protection of information," the General was pushed.

The journalist recalled that Putin's reaction to the Armed Forces surgery was quite slow. And now he continues to behave strangely, intensifying international visits. He recently visited Azerbaijan and met with President Aliyev. He also traveled to the Russian Federation, visiting Chechnya and talking to Ramzan Kadyrov and his Ordennost son. Goodges said he could only assume, but recalled that in the autocratic government of dictatorial type people reluctantly report the bad news.

"I think that he could not be informed about what was happening or the seriousness of the situation. And I think the same trend is observed at the lower levels," the general said. He also believes that Putin's subordinates also did not expect that the Armed Forces would start surgery in the Kursk region and did not want to bring bad news to the President of the Russian Federation.

"A slow reaction could be because people may have been surprised, did not want to recognize their astonishment, or did not want to bring bad news, or sought someone else who could be blamed for," Gogedes said. He also says Putin has a tendency to disappear during major crises. "He went to Baku and Chechnya and did other things to create a certain distance with himself and this problem," Hodes said.

In his opinion, Putin's behavior reflects the fact that in Russia the poorly established structure of command and management and all structures conflict with each other. "Who is responsible? There is the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, there is a FSB, there is Rosgvardy, there are internal forces, border troops, and they all hate each other.

Therefore, there is hardly good cooperation and exchange of intelligence between different staff These factors contribute to a slow, ineffective reaction at this point, "says Goodges. According to him, Russian structures will correct it and begin to gather strength from other places. Will they be able to do it quickly enough to organize some effective counterattack against the Ukrainian counter -offensive - Goodges cannot predict it.

"It seems to me that the Ukrainian General Staff was very well prepared for this and probably thought out all possible Russian reactions. I assume that they are ready to observe the response of the Russians and make it very difficult for them during it," the general said. He also believes that Russian troops can get into the surroundings in the Kursk region. And small centers of Russian forces do not pose a serious threat.

"They will either be forced or destroyed when Ukrainian troops are ready for it," Goodges summarized. We will remind, on August 14, journalists of the German edition noticed that Putin was noticeably nervous when he listened to a report on the offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region, and stated that he had very nervous and merged much more than when he listened to other news from the front.