Vladimir Putin ‘blaming intelligence service’ as Russian Army being humiliated in Ukraine
Ukraine: Putin 'blaming intelligence services' says Kendall
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Vladimir Putin had reportedly planned to conclude his so-called “special operation” in Ukraine within days of its launch. But two weeks into the invasion, Russia has so far failed in its attempts to reach Kyiv or any other major city in the country, with their advance mostly limited to the south and east. Bridget Kendall suggested Putin could now be “blaming intelligence service” for failing to plan around Ukraine’s fierce resistance.
Speaking to Lorraine, the former BBC correspondent said: “It also suggests that up at the top they thought that if they had this sort of dash and element of surprise, risky, but they could do it.
“They haven’t managed that, clearly.
“The people who have to go to Putin, he says, ‘what’s happened? How come this hasn’t worked out?’
“I’m sure he’s blaming his intelligence services for terrible intelligence because it turned out Ukrainians didn’t welcome them with flowers.
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“Instead, they’re fighting back, actually putting up quite a lot of resistance which is making it longer and bloodier and more difficult and more uncertain how it’s going to finish.”
Ms Kendall also suggested Putin is not being driven only by a desire to confront the West but also by his belief he is “righting a historical wrong.”
Putin justified his invasion with claims Russia was seeking to “denazify” Ukraine and to stop the “genocide” of the Russian-speaking population of the Donbas region.
Neo-Nazi parties polled at two percent in the last general election in Ukraine, and no evidence of crimes against the population in the eastern Ukrainian region have emerged in the eight years of the ongoing armed conflict.
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