After Vladimir Putin turned practically everyone against him during the invasion of Ukraine, top Russian officials are reported to be scheming a government without him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three months after Russian tanks first crossed the Ukrainian border, a government source told Russian-Latvian news portal Meduza that among Kremlin officials and Russian elites, “there are almost no people who are content with Putin.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Businessmen and many members of the government are angry because the president launched the war without considering the magnitude of the sanctions – it is impossible to live with such sanctions,’ the person said, echoing two other government insiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘The war-related issues in Russia are already obvious, and by July, they will be coming from all directions: transportation, medicine, and even agriculture. ‘No one could have imagined such a size,’ Meduza’s official interlocutor explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The news comes as Kyiv’s spy head stated yesterday that Putin avoided an assassination attempt roughly a month into the war, and that Putin’s seclusion is a precautionary measure based on his strong mistrust of his subordinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 6.5 million people have fled to other countries as a result of Russia’s three-month invasion, which has reduced entire cities into rubble and caused the implementation of unprecedented Western sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following early losses, Putin reportedly replaced the FSB, Russia’s domestic security agency, as the principal organisation responsible for intelligence gathering in Ukraine with the military intelligence agency GRU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken command of the military effort, personally issuing instructions to generals and attempting to assign responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the head of the main intelligence directorate of Ukraine’s ministry of defence declared yesterday Putin is cutting himself off from close contact with his subordinates to avoid any assassination attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Looking at some of his manic syndromes, he is afraid to seriously prepare a successor, realising that in preparation, this successor may want to take the chair a little earlier than Putin himself wants,’ Major General Kyrylo Budanov told Ukrainskaya Pravda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Therefore, he keeps everyone at a certain distance. And he believes that he will rule forever. But it will not be so.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: ‘Look at the history of any dictator of the 20th and 21st centuries. They all ended the same. In most cases, they died against their will.’<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Vladimir Putin turned practically everyone against him during the invasion of Ukraine, top Russian officials are reported to be scheming a government without him. Three months after Russian tanks … <\/p>\n