As the war in Ukraine continues desperately, bad news is likely to make Vladimir Putin wince. Our colleagues from DailyMail explained that the Russian leader urgently needed regular and military intelligence agents to enforce his power in the two “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine, near Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv.
But the agents of the FSB (Federal Security Service of Russia, editor’s note) avoid assignments, obtain medical certificates from treating doctors for themselves or for their family members, indicated a source from the channel Telegram entitled “We Can Explain”. And salaries six to eight times higher than usual fail to persuade them to move to conquered areas, she continued. Some officers “exhausted” by these intensive months (with vacation canceled during the war, editor’s note) would even seek to leave the service.
Faced with this big problem, the Kremlin had to be forced to recruit untrained prisoners and even retired or fired agents. “But there is little or no interest”an FSB source told the channel Telegram. “We called 200 (retired) people and only three said they would think about it.”
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