Posted on 05/24/2022 1:02:14 PM PDT by dennisw
Russian-Latvian outlet Meduza said Kremlin sources shared details of discontent 'There are almost no (Russian elites) who are satisfied with Putin', sources said
The discontent with the president is shared by pro-war and pro-peace elites alike Businessmen and government officials are said to be devastated by sanctions
While members of the intelligence community believe Putin has botched the war It comes as Ukraine's spy chief claimed Putin had escaped an assassination attempt and is isolating himself further due to concerns of a coup
Top-ranking Russian officials are said to be plotting a government without Vladimir Putin after Kremlin sources claimed the Russian President has turned almost everybody against him amid the invasion of Ukraine.
Three months to the day since Russian tanks first rolled across the Ukrainian border, a government source told Russian-Latvian outlet Meduza 'there are almost no people who are satisfied with Putin' among Kremlin officials and Russian elites.
'Businessmen and many members of the government are unhappy that the president started the war without thinking about the scale of the sanctions - it is impossible to live with such sanctions,' the source said - a sentiment which was later corroborated by two other government insiders.
'The problems [in Russia due to the war] are already visible, and by midsummer they will come from different directions: transport, medicine, even agriculture. No one simply thought of such a scale,' Meduza's interlocutor close to the government explained.
The revelation comes as Kyiv's spy chief claimed yesterday that Putin had escaped an assassination attempt around one month into the war, and declared the Russian leader's isolation is a preventative measure borne from a deep mistrust of his subordinates.
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Russia’s three-month long invasion, the biggest attack on a European state since 1945, has seen over 6.5 million people flee abroad, turned entire cities into rubble, and prompted the unprecedented imposition of Western sanctions on Russia.
A veteran Russian diplomat to the UN office in Geneva resigned yesterday over what he described as Putin’s ‘intolerable’ invasion of Ukraine, and lent further credence to Meduza’s claims in saying many Russian diplomats do not support the war.
Boris Bondarev, 41, resigned on Monday morning after 20 years in the diplomatic service before sending a letter to 40 diplomats in which he said he had never been ‘so ashamed of my country’.
In the letter, he condemned ‘the aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine and in fact against the entire Western world’ - and supported Meduza’s claims that high-ranking government officials in Russia are disapproving of the war.
‘It is intolerable what my government is doing now... not all Russian diplomats are warmongering. They are reasonable, but they have to keep their mouths shut,’ Bondarev claimed.
‘[The invasion] is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia... it is crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous free society in our country’.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov shrugged of Bondarev’s departure however, declaring the diplomat is ‘against us’ and that the ‘actions of the Russian leadership are supported by almost the entire population.
Please....They’ve probably discussed this 100 times and I’m sure Putin has named his successor. This is just something for the media to speculate on.
Even Russian elites who are in favour of the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine share the discontent of their peace-seeking compatriots.
Meduza claimed that high-ranking officials in Russia’s security services FSB and GRU - referred to as ‘hawks’ - believe Putin has botched the invasion and want to seize control of the operation.
‘The hawks are not satisfied with the pace of the ‘special operation’. They think they can act more decisively,’ a source said.
Putin reportedly removed the FSB - Russia’s domestic security agency - as the lead organisation responsible for intelligence gathering in Ukraine after early setbacks, and replaced it with military intelligence agency GRU.
But the Russian President has seized control of the military operation, personally handing orders out to generals and struggling to delegate responsibilities.
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.
‘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.
Meduza is based in Latvia.
Amd they are using the usual libtard route of using unnamed sources providing unnamed Russians and unnamed Russian sources or officials.
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That’ll make the NYT, CNN, etc, proud.
No one can guarantee their successor in a country like that once they are dead.
I thought this Russian diplomat’s resignation letter was a fake however it appears to be authentic.
Yep. Again...
Meduza is based in Latvia.
And they are using the usual libtard route of using unnamed sources providing unnamed Russians and unnamed Russian sources or officials.
Sad.
Dmitry Medvedev served as Russia’s president form 2008 to 2012 during Putin’s interregnum. My money is on him to replace Putin again.
The Daily Mail’s propaganda gets more ridiculous every day. As if Western intelligence is aware of everything going on in the Kremlin’s inner circle. Yeah sure *rolls eyes*.
I believe this as much as I believe a DNC press release.
If you assume the successor will be wanting peace at any cost. An alternative scenario might be the transformation of Western Ukraine into radioactive glass.
Another possibile candidate? Alexey Djumin
Alexei Gennadyevich Dyumin (Russian: Alexey Gennadyevich Dyumin)
Born August 28, 1972 in Kursk) is a Russian politician who has been the governor of the Tula Oblast since 2016. Before that, he served Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and was the head of the Russian special forces.
He also oversaw the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The following year he became Deputy Minister of Defense. He also holds the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
If they wanted to escalate the war, they would keep Putin.
The successor may not want peace “at any cost”. But they may well look to end this.
The stupidity of your post is monumental. Have you no self respect at all?
I have no respect for Putin. What he has done in Ukraine is horrendous. I hope Russia does replace him sooner than later, and brinks this nightmare to an end.
UK Daily Mail should be posted to the chat forum if at all.
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