High Level Russian Intelligence Officers Are Getting Fed Up With Putin

A source with knowledge of U.S. intelligence tells Newsy that Putin is more engaged now in the war than ever before.

Just how desperate is Vladimir Putin? 

 Two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence say that senior officers in Russia’s intelligence community are getting fed up with their president. 

There are indications that Putin’s critics there want to replace the former KGB officer with a current intelligence official, and a person may have been chosen, according to one source. It comes as major losses in Ukraine drove Putin to announce a partial draft — even as he still refuses to call his invasion a war: