He made “an incorrect analysis of the Russian threat in Ukraine” and thus of the risks of the invasion carried out by Putin at the time. With these allegations, the director of military intelligence in France was fired Eric Vidaud who had only been in office for seven months. The general, the French media write, is accused of “lack” of information about the possibility of a Russian attack on Ukraine. This is reported by the French newspaper L’Opinion, citing a source within the Federal Ministry of Defense vidaud He was dismissed for “inadequate briefings” and “lack of mastery over subjects”.
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The Chief of the French Defense Staff, Thierry Burkhardadmitted in an interview with Le Monde that the dismissal came when the French secret services including Vidaud realized that they had carried out an incorrect analysis in recent months and that this went against the assessment of the United States. Vidaud should have been told he would have to leave his post next summer, but the general preferred to leave the military institution immediately.
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