Russian President Vladimir Putin had a long career as an intelligence officer in the former Soviet Union’s KGB – the former Communist spy agency – and likely took great efforts to plan his invasion of Ukraine before sending thousands of troops into the country earlier this week.
"Is Russia surprised by all this? Yes," he told Fox News Digital Saturday."Therefore, they didn't do a great job in collecting the intelligence that they needed. And that's pretty humiliating, because Ukraine's on their border and they were occupying pieces of it.
"Putin doesn’t want a successful democracy next door serving as a beacon of hope and inspiration for his own domestic opponents, who are denied basic civil liberties," he wrote at the time, along with Sir Nicholas Soames, a former United Kingdom defense minister.Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier this week, with Putin claiming the move was a defensive measure amid threats from Ukraine. The White House warned earlier this month that U.S.
Before dawn on the fourth day, a Russian missile strike blew up a civilian oil depot in Vasilkov, about 24 miles south of Kyiv, according to Ukrainian Member of Parliament Anna Purtova.She called it an"ecological catastrophe" and appealed to the U.S. and European Union to close down the sky over her country.
Ukraine has put up a valiant defense in the face of overwhelming force – but few experts expect that to dissuade Putin, who has a larger army and more resources available. Attacks on infrastructure could intensify as a way to overwhelm the resistance. Russia’s president has an extensive background in intelligence gathering and has helmed the country since 2000 – with a break in office from 2008 to 2012 due to term limits.
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