There are no signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been weakened more than a year after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Germany’s secret service.
This was reported by the News Agency of Nigeria, with reference to dpa.
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The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND, Bruno Kahl, said on Monday at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin that there are no discernible cracks in the “Putin system”.
He said Russia was still in a position to “wage war over the long haul’’ with newly recruited soldiers, and the same applied to armament and ammunition.
Mr Kahl said the German intelligence BND only knew that Russia would attack Ukraine 14 days before the start of war.
“About 14 days before the start of the war, we also detected phenomena that could not be interpreted in any other way,” he said.
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Russia launched the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
Mr Kahl rejected criticism that the intelligence services in the United States and Britain expected an attack much earlier than the BND.
He said those intelligence services predicted the probability of war strongly based on their observations.
The BND, on the other hand, emphasised that the decision to attack would ultimately be made by Mr Putin.
The Kremlin leader had made this dependent on many things, “which did not consist of counting missiles or tanks,’’ he said.
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