A bitter new blame game has erupted in Vladimir Putin’s secret services over the bogus intelligence that led him to go to war.
It comes amid claims that the spymaster seen as responsible for telling him that Ukraine was ripe for invasion has not been arrested, as widely reported.
Col-General Sergei Beseda, 68, head of the 5th Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB), was said to have been detained either under house arrest or under pre-trial detention in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo jail.