General Roman Gavrilov, the deputy chief of Russia's Federal National Guard, has reportedly been detained by the much-feared FSB security service and accused of leaking information



As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – originally forecast to be over in less than a week – limps into its third week, furious Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin is looking for someone to blame.

Reports are emerging that General Roman Gavrilov, the deputy chief of Russia's Rosgvardia unit which was the spearhead of the first push into Ukrainian territory, has been arrested by the feared Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation – The FSB.

The reason for Gavrilov’s arrest is not immediately clear.

One source quoted by Bellincat’s Christo Grozev say the charge was "wasteful squandering of fuel” while a more serious charge of "leaks of military information that led to loss of life” has also been rumoured.

Russian broadsheet Pravda reported that Putin was throwing elite the Rosgvardia [Russian Federal National Guard Troops Service] special forces into the war against Ukraine, and listed a number of casualties that the unit had already sustained.

Estimates of Russia's total casualty figures vary wildly. According to official Kremlin sources, just 498 Russian servicemen have lost their lives in the invasion of Ukraine while a US estimate puts the figure closer to 7,000 – more than the number of American troops killed over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Meanwhile Ukraine claims to have killed in the region of 13,500 invading Russian troops.

Sergey Beseda, head of the FSB’s foreign intelligence branch, has also been arrested along with Anatoly Bolyukh, his deputy, according to The Times.

While the official charges relate to financial misconduct the real reason is likely to be Putin’s fury at receiving what he calls “unreliable, incomplete and partially false information about the political situation in Ukraine.”

Pentagon officials say that Putin is “angry and frustrated” at his army’s lack of progress and may be willing to cause “even more violence and destruction” in a bid to force President Zelenskyy to surrender.

CIA Director William Burns, himself a a former US. ambassador to Moscow, says the Russian leader is living in a “propaganda bubble” with no advisers daring to give him bad news,

'He's likely to double down and try to grind down the Ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties,” Director Burns said in an address to the US Congress.

But the challenge that Putin faces, Director Burns says, is that he has “no sustainable political endgame in the face of what is going to continue to be fierce resistance from Ukrainians”.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-army-general-arrested-leaking-26492398

Militant30:
Check the source of the News first

Putin is not winning the war but Zelensky is begging for cease fire

If a soldier is caught licking intels he should be arrested.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Pepper spray.. pepper spray.. pepper spray
This man is gone.. instead of him to be Court martialed.. Putin will likely eliminate him or throw him in a dungeon just the way evil dictators act..

Once you stand against him and question him you get wiped off..this is the man some persons on here are clamouring for.. praising him like he is a hero..a country where freedom of speech is blurred..
Boris Nemtsov who remember him?he protested against Putin's rule and invasion of Ukraine..the next thing he was shot dead by an unknown killer..he was silenced by the evil..and everyone knows who the evil is.. below is an article about that..
https://www.hudson.org/research/13970-who-killed-boris-nemtsov
Pure dictator..

Penguin2:
Where are Nairaland Putin urchins?

It’s going to a month since your lord and savoiur invaded Ukraine and still no headway.

Putin is now paranoid.

I smell coup.

Toktee:
Putin have not seen original international embarrassment.....

Militant30:
Check the source of the News first

Putin is not winning the war but Zelensky is begging for cease fire

If a soldier is caught licking intels he should be arrested.

rottennaija:


All are western media source. Believe it at your own peril.

rottennaija:


All are western media source. Believe it at your own peril.

Appleyard:


Pure propaganda. It's laughable that some gringos are rejoicing over a fake news when Ukraine is suffering immensely.

rottennaija:
Ukraine and the West winning the online propaganda war while Russia is winning in Ukraine

olatade:
Putin seems to have reached the "purge your own army" stage already. I get the feeling Russian army morale is not going to be helped by this.

Drenimarcus:


Watch as this will sweetly grace the front page. I know when Mariupol falls this weekend, they will cower.