French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings
Gen Eric Vidaud loses his job as military intelligence boss for not predicting Russia’s invasion. …
Early in March the head of French armed forces, Gen Thierry Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicised to pile pressure on Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, they were right,” he told Le Monde newspaper.