Waiting for US Congress poll
The Kremlin did not want to provide Presidential Administration Joe Biden with additional political success before voting. This was reported by the American CNN TV channel with reference to four sources familiar with intelligence. US officials recognize that intermediate elections have not been the only reason for the removal of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the region.
The invaders were running an escape for several weeks, and the United States thought when they officially admit it. Intelligence, as noted by the authors, is an informal assessment of Russia's intentions and a sign of Moscow's interest in continuing influence on political schedule in the United States. Russia has probably incorrectly calculated the impact of a statement about the withdrawal of troops from Kherson to polls, confident sources.
"I doubt that the Americans would really notice it," said the interlocutor familiar with Western intelligence. According to private researchers, a week before the intermediate elections of this year, Russian agents of influence used various media platforms to spoil the image of Democrats in several states. Russia could overestimate the level of interest in Americans with local fights in Ukraine, which indicates the imperfection of Russian information operations, said in intelligence.
"Despite all the noise about information operations and political intervention of the Russians, they are not so good in this grand plan. According to Western officials, the position of the Russians was based on reducing military assistance to Ukraine in the event of the victory of Republicans. There was no reliable evidence of such a view. "A similar statement (about the withdrawal of troops from Kherson - ed.
), Although, as the Russians represented it, they still show the surrender of a single regional center captured during a full -scale invasion," - said one of the people familiar with the intelligence. We will remind that Kherson was released from Russian invaders on November 11. On November 14, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky came to the city and participated in raising the national flag. Russia does not recognize military failures in the south and considers Kherson its territory.