Russian army general arrested for 'leaking Ukraine info'

March 19, 2022

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – originally forecast to be over in less than a week – limps into its third week, furious Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin is looking for someone to blame. Reports are emerging that General Roman Gavrilov, the deputy chief of Russia's Rosgvardia unit which was the spearhead of the first push into Ukrainian territory, has been arrested by the feared Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation – The FSB. Meanwhile Ukraine claims to have killed in the region of 13,500 invading Russian troops. CIA Director William Burns, himself a a former US. But the challenge that Putin faces, Director Burns says, is that he has “no sustainable political endgame in the face of what is going to continue to be fierce resistance from Ukrainians”.