A senior Russian security service official is believed to have been detained for allegedly leaking information about the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine, a sign that President Putin may be seeking scapegoats for his army’s failure to achieve a rapid victory.
General Roman Gavrilov, the deputy head of the national guard, often called Putin’s private army, was taken into custody yesterday by the FSB state security service, according to sources cited by Bellingcat, the investigative journalism website.
His detention was also reported by Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian dissident who cited a source as saying that Gavrilov, 46, was being questioned in Moscow on espionage charges related to the movement of Russian troops that led to the death of more than 100 servicemen. “The
