Patrushev Puts Folder Called ‘Failure’ On Putin's Desk

The Kremlin is preparing for the defeat in the war.

Political scientist Mykola Davydyuk said on the air of «Radio NV» that the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, “put a folder called “failure” on the desk for Putin.”

“According to our intelligence services, there is information that Putin has a folder of loss modeling on his desk, that is, how to act in case of a failure. This folder did not exist, there was a quick victory, a long victory, a peace treaty, and now a fourth folder has appeared, which is called a failure. That is, how the president and other security officials should act in case of a loss, how to accept it, how to work with it, how to downplay it. This folder appeared on their desk,” Davydyuk told Radio NV, adding that Patrushev put this folder on Putin’s desk.

He called this folder “the preparation of an analytical report on what can and will happen”.

“Let's just say that this is what we believed in from the first day of the attack, and this is what they came to, realizing that they were simply drowning in the steppes of Kherson, in the fields of the Kharkiv region, and what they understand: really, no matter how many unprepared soldiers they mobilize, no matter how many prisoners they recruit and then shoot them in the back, the Ukrainian army cannot be defeated by this,” the political scientist specified.

According to The Times, it was Patrushev, along with FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, who convinced Putin of the need to invade Ukraine.

According to sources in the Russian government, because of Putin's age, who turned 70 in October, the main security forces decided that they were running out of time to finally resolve the issue of “Western aggression”. For this, in their opinion, it was necessary to “finally solve the issue of Ukraine”.

The Times calls Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu “a hesitant performer” among high-ranking security officials, emphasizing that the political initiative for the war came from the security bloc. At the same time, most of the Russian elites were not informed about the plans to start a war and perceived the preceding events as a bluff on the part of Putin.

One of the interlocutors of the publication, a longtime friend of the Putin family, claims that the presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told him shortly after the start of the war that most members of the Security Council learned about the preparations for the invasion only at a meeting on February 21.