maybe president putin knows what has been kept away from him. >> reporter: there's certainly been concern raised about sergei, the russian defense minister. he is one of the people who's sort of in the innermost circle and most trusted by president putin. they've known each other for decades, grew up in st. petersburg and there were hunts that he had been removed from putin's inner circle. it isn't clear but putin has demonstrated that he isn't getting accurate information. he overreached by going for kyiv. what we heard from the head of uk's gshq, like the nsc in the united states, they're saying that the russian troops sabotaging their own equipment, didn't have the right equipment, mistakenly shot down one of their own aircraft, wouldn't go into combat when they were ordered into combat. this is information that they believe, the british believe, is being withheld from president putin. but i think you're also seeing