British Intelligence: Putin's Advisers Afraid to Tell Him Truth' about Invasion of Ukraine

British intelligence chief Jeremy Fleming said today, Thursday, that Russian President Vladimir Putin's advisers are "afraid to tell him the truth" about his "failed" war strategy in Ukraine, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

In a speech given by Fleming at the Australian National University in Canberra, he said that Putin “made a very big mistake in assessing the consequences of the invasion that his forces launched into Ukraine on February 24.”

The British official added, "We have seen Russian soldiers - lacking weapons and low morale - refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their equipment, and even accidentally shooting down their planes."

"Even if Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what is happening and how serious these miscalculations are, they should be absolutely clear to the system," he said.

Fleming repeats what was stated the day before by a senior official in the White House that Putin was receiving misleading information about the course of the war in Ukraine.