Putin sends foreign intelligence branch head into house arrest

Colonel Sergey Orestovich Beseda, is a Russian politician and government agent, who has been head of the 5th Service (Reserve Operational Information and International Relations) of the Federal Security Service since 2009.

Putin has blamed Beseda and his spokesman, Anatoly Bolyukh, who has also been arrested for failing intelligence calling in a series of shameful losses in Ukraine.

Andrey Soldatov, an author of Russian secret services, said that sources within the FSB told Sergey Beseda, 68, the head of the agency's foreign service, has been arrested at Putin's orders.

Putin reportedly blames the intelligence agency, which assured him before the invasion that Russian forces would only face symbolic resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to get rid of their leaders.

Among the reasons are deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine.

Security Service The FSB allegedly suggested Ukraine was weak, filled with neo-Nazi groups and would easily surrender if attacked.

In fact, the Russian armed forces have faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian soldiers who have fought them to stop, have caused great losses and forced Putin commanders to use a brutal siege war that has so far yielded few results.

What are biological weapons?

Biological weapons are different from chemical weapons. It's a phrase used to describe the weapons of a dangerous pathogen like Ebola.

Russia has accused Ukraine of working with the US for biological weapons. One of the reasons is that Ukraine, like many countries in the world, has worked in research on Covid and other pathogens and has sought ways to protect the population against them.

Ukraine has denied any charge it is working for biological weapons.

The problem is that there is a potentially gray area between working for ways to protect your population from harmful pathogens and underground work on how they can be used as weapons. Russia provided no immediate evidence of Ukraine's wrongdoing in this area.

Russia, while part of the Soviet Union, controlled a truly massive biological weapons program run by an agency called Biopreparat. After the end of the Cold War, scientists entered to dismantle it in the 1990s. They discovered that the Soviets had produced anthrax, small smallpox, and other diseases after testing them in live monkeys in southern Russia. They even loaded spores of anthrax into the heads of long-range intercectal missiles aimed at Western cities. /Dailymail