{"id":1411336,"date":"2022-03-30T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411336"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:15:25","slug":"britains-gchq-spy-chief-says-russian-soldiers-refused-to-carry-out-orders-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/britains-gchq-spy-chief-says-russian-soldiers-refused-to-carry-out-orders-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s GCHQ spy chief says Russian soldiers refused to carry out orders in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritains-gchq-spy-chief-says-russian-soldiers-refused-to-carry-out-orders-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411336&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming delivers a speech as he meets with Britain&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth during her visit at the Watergate House to mark the centenary of the GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) in London, Britain, February 14, 2019. REUTERS\/Hannah McKay\/Pool\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Guy Faulconbridge<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     The head of Britain\u2019s GCHQ spy service said on Wednesday that new intelligence showed some Russian soldiers in Ukraine had refused to carry out orders, sabotaged their own equipment and  accidentally shot down one of their own aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands of people, displaced millions and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) chief Jeremy Fleming said President Vladimir Putin had \u201cmassively misjudged\u201d the capabilities of Russia\u2019s once mighty armed forces while underestimating both the resistance of the Ukrainian people and the resolve of the West, which has punished Moscow with largely coordinated sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin has massively misjudged the situation,\u201d Fleming said in a speech in Canberra at the Australian National University, according to a transcript of his remarks. \u201cWe believe Putin\u2019s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing new intelligence, Fleming said there was evidence that Russian soldiers had low morale and were poorly equipped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Russian soldiers \u2013 short of weapons and morale \u2013 refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,\u201d Fleming said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was unable to independently confirm GCHQ\u2019s analysis. <\/p>\n<p>GCHQ, which gathers communications from around the world to identify and disrupt threats to Britain, has a close relationship with the U.S. National Security Agency and with the eavesdropping agencies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand in a consortium called \u201cFive Eyes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s defence ministry says its armed forces are professional and carrying out their duty in Ukraine with considerable success. It says the West has spread lies about the operation in an attempt to bring down Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The United States assesses that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60% for some of its precision-guided missiles, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Putin was misled by advisers who were too scared to tell him how poorly the war in Ukraine is going and how damaging Western sanctions have been, U.S. and European officials said on Wednesday. The Kremlin made no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>Putin says the \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine is necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia and Moscow had to defend against the persecution of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine says it is fighting against an imperial-style land grab and that Putin\u2019s claims of genocide are nonsense.     <\/p>\n<p>Russia says that the West has effectively declared economic war on Russia and so it will now turn eastwards, away from Europe and build a partnership with China. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there are risks to them both (and more for China) in being too closely aligned,\u201d Fleming said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia understands that long term, China will become increasingly strong militarily and economically.\u00a0Some of their interests conflict; Russia could be squeezed out of the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Grant McCool)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming delivers a speech as he meets with Britain&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth during her visit at the Watergate House to mark the centenary of the GCHQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}