{"id":1019,"date":"2022-03-31T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/russian-soldiers-disobeyed-putins-orders-shot-down-own-aircraft-says-uk-spy-chief\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:08:14","slug":"russian-soldiers-disobeyed-putins-orders-shot-down-own-aircraft-says-uk-spy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/russian-soldiers-disobeyed-putins-orders-shot-down-own-aircraft-says-uk-spy-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Soldiers Disobeyed Putin\u2019s Orders, Shot Down Own Aircraft, Says UK Spy Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Russian soldiers have been disobeying orders and accidentally shot down one of their own aircraft, the head of Britain\u2019s GCHQ spy agency has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin\u2019s advisers are \u201cafraid to tell him the truth\u201d about the war in Ukraine, according to Sir Jeremy Fleming, who will say in a speech on Thursday that the Russian president made a \u201cstrategic miscalculation\u201d in deciding to invade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Russian soldiers \u2013 short of weapons and morale \u2013 refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,\u201d the spy chief will say in a rare public address during a visit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even though we believe Putin\u2019s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what\u2019s going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all adds up to the strategic miscalculation that western leaders warned Putin it would be. It\u2019s become his personal war, with the cost being paid by innocent people in Ukraine and, increasingly, by ordinary Russians too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No evidence has been disclosed for the claim Russian troops shot down their own aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday US officials also said Mr Putin is being misled by advisers who were too scared to tell him how badly the war in Ukraine is going and how damaging western sanctions have been.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership,\u201d White House communications director Kate Bedingfield told reporters during a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisors are too afraid to tell him the truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces bombarded areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv just hours after pledging to scale back operations in those zones to promote trust between the two sides, Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian shelling hit homes, shops, libraries, and other civilian areas, they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandits on Sunday stormed Gpekure, Makuba and Galapai communities in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, killing five women and abducting 14 others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - 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