Putin 'facing mutiny from Russian spies' furious at 'total failure' in Ukraine - source

dailystar.co.uk:

Vladimir Putin after he kept them in the dark over his Ukraine invasion. A whistleblower described the war as a "total failure" that could only be compared to the collapse of Nazi Germany.

A leaked report by an alleged analyst within the FSB - the successor agency to the KGB - said Russian casualties could already be 10,000.

The Russian defence ministry has only acknowledged the deaths of 498 soldiers in Ukraine.But the whistleblower said no-one in the government knew the true figure because "we have lost contact with major divisions".The report said the FSB was being blamed for the invasion’s failure but had been given no warning of it and was unprepared for the crippling effects of western sanctions. "You have to write the analysis in a way that makes Russia the victor…otherwise you get questioned for not doing good work," it said.

It said the reality was Russia was "like Germany in 1943-44 - but that's our starting position".A "provisional deadline" for the end of the conflict had been set for June because the Russian economy will have collapsed by then, it went on.The report said if an ultimatum was sent to the West threatening war if sanctions were not lifted it could escalate into an international conflict."What if the West refuses?" the author wrote."In that instance I won't exclude that we will be pulled into a real international conflict, just like Hitler in 1939."The report warns Chechen leader and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov was on the verge of outright conflict with Russia after his "hit squad" - sent to kill Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy - was destroyed by enemy forces.Even if Zelenskyy was assassinated the report says Russia would have no hope of occupying Ukraine."Even with minimum resistance from.