The U.S. has solid intelligence that Putin is expressing unusual bursts of anger at people in his inner circle over the state of the military campaign so far, officials said.
"This is somebody that's clearly been caught off guard by the size of the Ukrainian resistance," said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on MSNBC. "He has isolated himself, he's not been in the Kremlin very much… You've got less and less inputs and these inputs are from sycophants."
The U.S. has solid intelligence that Putin is frustrated and expressing unusual bursts of anger at people in his inner circle over the state of the military campaign so far and the worldwide condemnation of his actions, two current and one former U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence told NBC News.
Brennan said he shared those worries. Based on the release of accurate intelligence predicting Putin's pre-invasion moves, Brennan said he believes U.S. and Western intelligence agencies have good insights into his decision-making processes. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told NBC News that "Putin's severe miscalculations are going to cost him a grave price," adding that he "has become a political pariah to those he foolishly believed would support his unprovoked, premeditated invasion of Ukraine."
There were multiple reports Monday that Ukraine had been using its complement of Turkish drones to destroy Russian vehicles on the ground. The small drones, which can hover over a target and strike it with missiles, were used to devastating effect in 2020 by Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia. Putin could order his military to use brute force to seize Kyiv and other cities, by employing indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilian areas. That was Russia's approach in its air war in Syria, where it supported Iranian-backed fighters and Syrian regime troops, and in the Second Chechen War in 1999-2000.
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