Russia’s elite are “unhappy” with Putin over widespread military losses (Photos: Getty / Reuters)
Kremlin officials are secretly planning Russia’s future without Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
Behind the scenes in Moscow, his allies appear to be mistrusting the president’s war vision, and his successors are now lining up.
Among them are Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev and First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko.
According to the Russian-Latvian website Meduza, “almost no” member of the Russian elite is satisfied with its leader.
Ministers and companies are ‘unhappy’ the war began ‘without thinking about the extent of the sanctions’.
A source close to the administration said: “It is not possible to live normally with these sanctions. The” hawks “are not satisfied with the pace of the” special operation “.
‘The problems [in Russia] they are already visible, and in the middle of summer they will simply fall from different directions: transport, medicine, even agriculture. No one just thought about a scale like this.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev is being nominated as his successor (Photo: AFP) First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko is also on the list (Photo: Getty) The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, could follow in Putin’s footsteps (Photo): Getty)
He added that before the war, no one in the Kremlin considered the possibility of Western countries imposing a embargo on Russian oil and gas.
Two sources close to the president’s administration said Putin simply did not want to think about the obvious economic difficulties.
Metro.co.uk has not been able to independently verify the allegations, but reports of Putin’s intimate move to replace him have been circulating for weeks.
This comes after one of his top diplomats left his job at the United Nations in Geneva, sending a letter to his colleagues condemning “the war of aggression.”
Moscow has not yet ruled on Boris Bondarev’s resignation, but it will be another serious blow for Putin.
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While the Kremlin is trying to refute Putin’s health claims, it was revealed that he survived an assassination attempt two months ago.
He was attacked in the Caucasus, a mountainous region occupied by Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and southeastern Russia, according to Ukrainian officials.
MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove also predicted that Putin would be dethroned next year and sent to a sanatorium for his illness.
He said this could be the Kremlin’s way of overthrowing the leader without launching a coup.
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