According to top Biden administration officials, newly declassified U.S. intelligence shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin felt misled by military leaders who did not tell him about the invasion of Ukraine.
The White House believes that Putin is being misled by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.
She said that the failure to tell Putin what was really happening resulted in tension between him and his military leadership.
A US official told NBC News that Putin didn't know his military was using and losing conscripts in Ukraine, showing a breakdown in the flow of accurate information to the Russian President.
The Pentagon and the White House wouldn't say how American intelligence agencies learned about Putin, or if they were told about it during meetings with his military advisers.
The decision to declassify and release the information now was the latest example of the Biden administration's use of a novel tactic that seems tailor made for the hybrid warfare age. The world was told about Putin's plans after it obtained top- secret intelligence.
The White House has declassified information about Putin's secret invasion plans several times. It has been proven accurate each time.
The European Union Research Center at George Washington University said that the White House intelligence has been spot on. They did.
She told CNBC recently that the U.S. intelligence is on its game.
At a crucial time for Ukraine, the revelation about tensions between Putin and his top brass came to light. After failing to topple the government of Ukraine and install a puppet regime, the Kremlin appears to have shifted strategies.
Russian defense officials claim that their primary goal was to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east of the country.
They say they are trying to surround Kyiv to points farther east and closer to Russian-controlled areas.
The Biden administration has stressed the need to avoid a clash between Russia and the United States in order to avoid escalating the conflict between Urkaine and Russia.
The release of intelligence like the details announced Wednesday suggests the U.S. has a mole in Putin's inner circle.
You don't know what kind of reaction Mr. Putin will have if he is kept in the dark by his Ministry of Defense.
Western officials will watch closely in the coming days to see if more Russian troops move to eastern Ukraine and if Russia expands its military draft. The decision is expected to be made by April 1.
It's not clear if more soldiers would give the Kremlin a strategic advantage over the Ukrainian resistance.
Kirby said that no amount of spin can mask what the world has seen over the past month.
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