 Who told Putin the real situation on the front lines would lose his cap or his head? President Putin is being told Russia's special military operation is going to plan a top Kiev intelligence official said as anyone who told him the real situation on the front lines would lose his cap or his head. In an interview, Andrey Yusov, spokesperson for the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, told the Kiev Post that some details of the real situation may be reaching him with some delay but not the information on the situation in general. Referencing Russia's ongoing and disastrous attempt to take the town of Avdivka, Yusov said How can they tell him about daily losses of dozens of armored vehicles and hundreds of troops in one front-line section alone? The messenger risks being fired or worse, Yusov said. That's why he's told that everything's going according to plan. Yusov said this was in keeping with the general trend of information that the Kremlin has been receiving even before Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After all, if he had heard adequate reports and been ready to hear them, neither 2014 nor the full-scale invasion would have happened. He said because only an idiot would have believed that Kiev would be taken in three days and only an idiot would have believed that the Russian invaders would be welcomed here with flowers and that Ukrainians were looking forward to them as liberators. But those people must have painted some rosy pictures and believed in what they wanted to see. Yusov also said that the Kremlin's extensive propaganda machine has been propping up false narratives about the war in Ukraine. To us, what Kremlin propagandists Skabiva and Solovyov say sounds schizophrenic. But the Russian audience takes it as the real picture of the world and they live in it. He said this is also true for the people in the top positions in the aggressor state.