Mikk Marran, who headed Estonia's foreign intelligence service until last year, told Newsweek that Moscow's spies are still conducting foreign operations.
"The Russian leadership and military made a huge miscalculation," Marran said."We could also say that the Russian intelligence services were somewhat failing."
"I wouldn't say that they failed totally, because we have some information that there were some reports available for the leadership. But most probably the information that was sent to the top levels of the intelligence services and from there to the Kremlin was fine tuned. So, the exact information was not forwarded to the top.", which Marran said he and his team had been expecting since the end of 2021.
"We knew from the start that it's not going to be a three-day or three-week war, but specifically when Russia was stuck north of Kyiv, that showed that something was terribly wrong with decision makers, with the military commanders, and also with the logistics, because they were not able to move, to fuel their vehicles, and so on."," Marran added.
A man pushes his bike through mud and debris past a destroyed Russian self-propelled howitzer as he surveys damage in front of the central train station that was used as a Russian base on March 30, 2022 in Trostyanets, Ukraine.Putin's rise to power arguably represents the seizure of the new Russia's levers of power by the remnants of Soviet intelligence bodies.
Among them are Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the security council; Sergei Naryshkin who runs the SVR foreign intelligence service; and FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov.
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