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Vladimir Putin is poorly informed about the course of the war in Ukraine, said Thursday, October 6 in “Le Talk” franceinfo on Twitch Kevin Limonier, lecturer in Slavic studies at the University of Paris 8. And this poor communication explains a part difficulties of the Russian army since the beginning of the conflict.
While the war in Ukraine has taken a new turn since September 21, the day Vladimir Putin announced mobilization in Russia, how does the Russian President experience this phase in which Ukraine is regaining ground, and then that many of its soldiers seem to surrender or flee rather than go to the front?
The Russian president, isolated, would only read dispatches from the FSB, the Russian intelligence services. As for the information reported by his close guard, the Russian information space specialist Kevin Limonier believes in “Le Talk” franceinfo that they are very far from reality.
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“He is at the top of a security apparatus which returns a lot of notes to him. But in the FSB notes, for example, we know that the information that reaches him is very often biased”explains Kevin Limonier.
The reasons why this information is biased are manifold, according to the lecturer in Slavic studies.
It’s linked to the administrative structure, to the hierarchy, to the fact that you have to please the boss, that it’s better to put certain problems under the carpet rather than send them back to your boss…
Kevin Limonier, specialist in the Russian information sphereat franceinfo
“And we were able to see totally absurd things that partly explain Russia’s initial military failures during the first phase of the invasion of Ukraine”adds Kevin Limonier. “The intelligence services had brought up information that was simply false, in particular on the fact that the Russians would be welcomed as liberators in certain Ukrainian cities.”