A mass purge of 150 security officials has been ordered by Vladimir Putin in the wake of the botched invasion of Ukraine, claim reports.
The officers are said to be from the FSB security service, which is the successor to the KGB, with some removed while others were reportedly arrested.
All of those ousted were said to be employees of the Fifth Service, a division that was set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB to perform operations in former Soviet Union countries.
