Fifth General Killed, Top Russian Officials Divided, Intelligence Commander Arrested

MOSCOW, KOMPAS.com – Internal government Russia split related invasion of Ukrainewith a commander intelligence Russia placed under house arrest.

Colonel General Sergei Beseda, Head of the Fifth Service of the Intelligence Russia’s FSB, and Deputy Beseda are being held under house arrest, according to a report by the non-partisan think tank the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). The Jerusalem Post on Saturday (19/3/2022).

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Service Fifth Division Russian FSB Intelligence responsible for intelligence information to Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine in the run-up to the war.

“Looks like two weeks of war, Putin realized that he really did wrong. The ministry, afraid of his response, will only tell Putin what he wants to hear,” wrote Russian investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov in the CEPA report.

The two reporters added that they had monitored the Operations Information Department (DOI), the FSB’s foreign intelligence branch, since its founding as a directorate in the late 1990s.

The Russian side has yet to confirm reports that Colonel General Beseda is under house arrest.

Beseda was also the target of sanctions imposed by the United States, Britain and the European Union in 2014, when conflict broke out in Ukraine and Russia occupied Crimea.

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On Saturday (19/3/2022), a US official told The Wall Street Journal that reports of Beseda being placed under detention are “credible”.

The official also claimed a split occurred between the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Defense over the invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile foreign media reports and foreign officials indicated that the first Russian side initially believed it could take over Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in a matter of days.

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