The media asked Peskov to comment on the data of American intelligence, voiced by the White House, regarding misinforming Putin by his own advisers about how badly the Russian military is doing in Ukraine.
Intelligence officials believe that Putin’s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth. Thus, according to a representative of the US administration, information about the participation of conscripts in the war and cases of their death was concealed from Putin. Putin allegedly feels that the military is trying to hide problems at the front from him, which has already led to increased tensions between the president and the Russian Ministry of Defense, the American official said.
In addition, the United States believes that Putin is being misled about the damage to the Russian economy from sanctions.
“It turns out that neither the State Department nor the Pentagon have real information about what is happening in the Kremlin. And they simply do not understand what is happening in the Kremlin, they do not understand President Putin, they do not understand the decision-making mechanism, they do not understand the style of our work,” Peskov said, “This is not just a pity, but it causes concern. Because such a complete misunderstanding just leads to erroneous decisions, to rash decisions that have very bad consequences.”
War of Russia against Ukraine. The main thing (updated)
During the invasion, which began on February 24, the invaders managed to occupy several settlements in Kherson (including the regional center), Zaporozhye, Sumy, Kharkov and Kiev regions.
According to the Ukrainian Security Service, Putin planned a blitzkriegbut he failed. The department believes that the President of the Russian Federation expected to capture Ukraine in three days. One of the prisoners, whose testimony was published by the secret service, said that Russian servicemen were given provisions with a reserve for this period.
On March 5, Putin declared that the war in Ukraine goes “just according to planaccording to the schedule, everything is being done as planned by the General Staff”. He expressed confidence that the Russian army “will solve all the tasks facing it.”
Western intelligence believes that the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine actually “didn’t go according to plan.” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned that because of this, Russia may use chemical weapons in Ukraine.
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing information received from US officials, reported on March 20 that Russia, having failed to win a quick victory in Ukraine, goes to plan B. Officials in the administration of US President Joe Biden believe that now Putin’s plan is to force Kyiv to accept Russia’s claims to a number of Ukrainian regions in the south and east. At the same time, according to Western officials, he will continue shelling Ukrainian cities in order to force the Ukrainian authorities to agree to Russian demands, including the status of the occupied territories and the neutral status of Ukraine.
Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin said on March 29 following the results of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations that Russia “in order to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations” decided reduce military activity in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. However, the White House believes that the movement of Russian forces from the outskirts of Kyiv – “this is a redeployment, not a withdrawal”.
Officially Russia has not abandoned its demands on Ukraine, including “demilitarization” and “denazification”. At the same time, the head of the Russian delegation at the peace talks, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky declaredthat the treaty proposed by Ukraine at the negotiations, including its non-nuclear and non-bloc statusmeans that Ukraine “declared its readiness to fulfill the fundamental requirements of the Russian Federation.”
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