Official who gave Putin wrong intelligence on Ukraine war resigns.

Sergei Beseda has resigned as head of the 5th Service of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on the formal grounds that he had turned 70, the age limit for service.

"However, this personnel decision is explained not only by formal reasons: inside the FSB, there is a fierce feud between various power groups for several high-ranking posts being vacated this year, including Bortnikov's job," Russian investigative outlet Important Stories stated, citing its undisclosed sources.

The 5th Service is in charge of the FSB's relations with foreign partners and gathering intelligence in former Soviet countries, including Ukraine.

The service provided ruZZian dictator Putin with information about political developments in Ukraine on the eve of the full-scale invasion.

The intelligence provided by the 5th Service turned out to be inaccurate in many ways when the all-out war started. But based on this intelligence, the Z-regime was confident that the russian army would not meet serious resistance in Ukraine.

Beseda was replaced by Alexey Komkov and was appointed as an aide to Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB.

The director of the FSB will turn 73 this year (he is not subject to age restrictions due to the high rank of army general), and he has long been "asking to retire for health reasons," according to IStories sources. One of the candidates for his place is Sergei Korolev, the first deputy director of the FSB. He has numerous connections with the leaders of the russian underworld, including the "killer No 1" of russia Aslan Gagiev.

Alexei Komkov, appointed head of the fifth service, is considered a protégé of Korolev.

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