Putin was furious and surprised by the answer

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Johan Edgar

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President Putin says in a televised speech that his "special operation" in Ukraine is going according to plan.

But behind the scenes, he should be furious and surprised by the sanctions against Russia, states a leaked FBI report.

After the invasion, his behavior changed according to the informant, writes CNN.

After eight days of fighting, more Ukrainian cities are threatened with Russian control.

The rocket fire has escalated in recent days and thousands of civilians are said to have been killed in the attacks.

More than a million people have fled the country from the fighting.

Externally, Putin shows no tendency to back down from his invasion of Ukraine.

Bombed residential buildings on the outskirts of Kiev on Thursday.

Bombed residential buildings on the outskirts of Kiev on Thursday.

In a 90-minute conversation with French President Macron, he said on Thursday that he "continues to fight against the nationalists" without any compromises.

Leaked FBI report

The Russian president justified the invasion once again by saying that Ukraine must be "de-Nazified"

In a televised speech later on Thursday, he continued in the same way and stated that the "special operation" is going exactly according to plan.

He called the Ukrainian people brainwashed.

"They are neo-Nazis that Russia is fighting against and these neo-Nazis are using their civilians as shields," Putin told the people.

- Ukraine has snipers on its roofs. They are brutal. While we do everything to not waste any lives.

In a speech on Thursday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the operation was going exactly according to plan.

In a speech on Thursday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the operation was going exactly according to plan.

But according to a leaked FBI report that CNN has read, it is more messy behind the scenes in the Kremlin.

Putin is said to have expressed "extreme anger" over the sanctions imposed by the West after the invasion.

"He feels that the sanctions have escalated the situation faster than he foresaw and that they have gone further than he sees as reasonable," the report states.

Changed in recent days

The development is said to have meant that Putin has become more "unpredictable" in just the last few days after the invasion began.

The FBI also notes in the report that the lack of reliable information in Russia about the escalation before and after the invasion meant that not even the country's most powerful understood what was going on.

This has led to people with the opportunity to leave Russia before the sanctions closed borders and airports remained in the country, writes CNN.

There is a secondary source behind the information in the report, but the origin of the information must be a person with "excellent access" to the Russian top management who has previously provided information that could later be verified.

According to a leaked FBI report that CNN read, Putin is said to have expressed "extreme anger" over the sanctions imposed by the Western world after the invasion.

According to a leaked FBI report that CNN read, Putin is said to have expressed "extreme anger" over the sanctions imposed by the Western world after the invasion.

CNN writes that the FBI does not rule out that the source who provided the information does so as part of a Russian disinformation campaign to manipulate the United States in future decision-making on sanctions and other measures.

It is also suspected from the American side that Putin may have a strategy to appear unstable in order to get what he wants from the western countries for fear that he will do something much worse, writes CNN.

More sanctions against the elite

But according to CNN, other federal authorities see the report as interesting enough to have requested additional information from the source.

Neither the FBI nor the CIA wanted to comment on the information.

A US intelligence source tells CNN that it is extremely difficult to get first-hand information about Putin's condition and grip on power.

- It would need intercepted communication of a phone call or video when he loses his temper with his ministers or something like that.

- Real-time communication between government members is a very difficult goal.

At the same time, the United States continues to roll out new sanctions against the richest and most powerful in Russia in an attempt to put pressure on Putin.

Among the named figures in the elite now covered by the sanctions is Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov, a Russian billionaire whose luxury yacht was seized by Germany earlier this week.

During his speech to the nation on Wednesday night, US President Joe Biden warned the rich oligarchs that the Western world is on the hunt for their "illegal riches".

"Tonight I say to Russian oligarchs and corrupt leaders who have fraudulently earned billions thanks to this violent regime that it is over," Biden said.

Investigating crime

- The US Department of Justice is assembling a special force to investigate the crime of the Russian oligarchs. We join forces with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, luxury apartments and private planes.

In addition to sanctions against individuals, the United States and its allies have frozen the assets of Russian banks and closed their airspace to Russian aircraft.

On Thursday, Putin sent his spy chief Sergei Naryshkin to rage against Western sanctions against the country.

The head of the external intelligence service believes that the West is trying to "build a new iron curtain", according to the Russian news agency Tass.

But that the United States and NATO are too cowardly to take on Russia in open military conflict and therefore imposed all sanctions.

The spy boss's warning

He sees Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the "collapse of the unipolar world" in which only one actor, the United States in this case, rules and controls the world.

- The worst thing about the sanctions is that they take place with false slogans such as defending Ukraine's independence and European security, says spy chief Naryshkin according to Tass.

He also warns that one will see "a completely different Ukraine in the future".