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Oleksiy Danilov, head of Ukraine’s security council, announced that eight Russian commanders have been fired since the start of the conflict amid heavy losses on the battlefield. Putin is said to be enraged with leaders of the FSB security service for handing him intelligence suggesting that Ukraine was weak, contained many neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if attacked as they had in the Crimea. In addition, some in the FSB are said to have leaked information to the Ukrainians. He blames them for seeding him the advice that led to the poor decision-making in Ukraine, which led to Russia suffering much higher casualties than it expected in its attack, which has now been going on for two weeks. The delay is allowing Ukraine to be rearmed by the West. Russia is also now feeling the impact of the sanctions. ’ A British Intelligence officer said.