Andrea Kendall-Taylor, the US deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia from 2015-2018, added that Putin is seeking individuals to ‘scapegoat and pass the blame’ to and thinks ‘he’s in a much more precarious position now’.
It comes after Vladimir Putin placed the head of the FSB’s foreign service and his deputy under house arrest after blaming them for intelligence failings that saw his army handed a series of embarrassing defeats in Ukraine.
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Soldatov previously told that most FSB agents are brought into the service as legacy hires based on their parents or grandparents being agents and are removed from mainstream schools to be educated in-house.
Experts aren’t entirely sure why pregnancy can raise a person’s risk of developing severe COVID-19 disease, but there are a few ideas. Changes in the body that occur during pregnancy could increase someone’s chances of becoming severely ill with a respiratory virus like COVID-19. It may also be because a person’s immune system is naturally depressed during pregnancy in order to prevent their body from rejecting the growing fetus, Dr. Ella Speichinger, an OB-GYN at University of Missouri Health Care, told CNET in May.
Last week, Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency’s foreign service, had been placed under arrest on Putin’s orders.
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Among the reasons for the repressions are the embezzlement of funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine, as well as deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine.
Putin is said to blame the agency for intelligence which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid of their leaders.
In fact, the Russian armed forces have faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian soldiers that has battled them to a standstill, inflicted heavy losses, and forced Putin’s commanders to resort to brutal siege warfare that has so far yielded few results.
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the pregnant person and their baby mostly center on delivery, as women with COVID-19 are more likely to give birth preterm or experience a stillbirth than women who don’t have COVID-19.
‘I’ve lost my niece, my little sister, my best friend ☹️ Life dealt you the harshest card but you always chose to win, you always fought to come out the other side above it all with a smile on your face.
Jeffrey Edmonds, a former CIA and National Security Council official, told : ‘It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like Putin’s beliefs about Ukraine.’
It’s normal to feel discouraged if you’ve done everything to prevent getting sick, but still test positive for COVID-19. Getting sick while pregnant, however, can cause a lot of extra stress and sometimes more serious problems — even with viruses less serious than the one dragging on a global pandemic. So if you get COVID-19 while pregnant, what do you do?
“We can provide treatment for COVID-19 in pregnancy,” Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, a maternal-fetal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins University, said in a post. “Several of the medications currently in use are also being used for our pregnant women, and early studies have shown they can provide some benefit.”
If you give birth with COVID-19, the ACOG notes that, according to current reports, the risk of a baby getting COVID-19 does not change based on whether the baby stays in your room or in a separately. Isolating your baby in another room may be encouraged, however, if you are very ill or if your baby is at high risk of getting very sick (all newborns are at higher risk, but some may have other medical conditions).
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Can I pass COVID to my baby during pregnancy? The ACOG says that there are some reports of COVID-19 being passed to a baby because their parent was sick during pregnancy, but these reports are rare.
Giving birth and breastfeeding with COVID: Can COVID pass through breast milk? According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, you most likely won’t need to change your birth plan if you test positive for COVID-19 before delivery, but talk with your OB-GYN or provider. Having COVID-19 also doesn’t necessarily mean your doctor will recommend a c-section.