The US has noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was being misled by his military advisers on the situation in Russia’s war against Ukraine, British public broadcaster BBC reports.
On Wednesday, March 30, in the US, White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said the US had information that Mr Putin «felt misled by the Russian military» and this had resulted in «persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership».
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«Putin’s war has been a strategic blunder that has left Russia weaker over the long term and increasingly isolated on the world stage,» Bedingfield evaluated.
A US defence official stated, in turn, that some Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station area in northern Ukraine and heading to neighbouring Belarus. «We think that they are leaving, I can’t tell you that they’re all gone,» the official was quoted as saying by the BBC.
US: Putin misinformed by military advisers on Ukraine
