lot of speculation. he seems to be, and not seeing this is a certainty, he seems to be self isolating and there is some indication that he has fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers but i don't want to put too much stock in that at this time because we don't have that much hard evidence. there have been questions about what's happening inside the russian government, after american and british intelligence officials say president putin is not being given an accurate picture of how the war is going in ukraine. they say his advisers are too scared to tell him just how bad the situation is on the ground. here's sirjeremy fleming, head of the uk's security and intelligence agency gchq. it increasingly looks like putin has massively misjudged the situation. it's clear he's misjudged the resistance of the ukrainian people. he underestimated the strength of the coalition his actions would galvanize. he underplayed the economic consequences of the sanctions