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Is This Why Putin Expected No Resistance?

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In March, the leadership of the Fifth Service of the FSB, Russia’s main intelligence service, were reportedly placed under house arrest. The FSB has been in charge of providing Putin with intelligence on political developments in Ukraine up to and on the eve of the invasion. Sergey Beseda, head of the FSB’s foreign intelligence branch, has been arrested along with his deputy Anatoly Bolyukh. Beseda is charged with embezzling $5 billion, money which was supposed to pay for subversion inside Ukraine. Is this why Putin expected no resistance?

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)

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