Power uprising against Tsar Putin? Ukrainian intelligence claims that the idea of assassinating President Vladimir Putin is gaining ground among Russia’s political and business elite: the aim is to oust him as quickly as possible and restore economic ties with the West damaged by the war in of Ukraine were destroyed. This is what the Ukrainian press reports.
The “conspirators” have also already singled out a successor, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s intelligence services, Alexander Bortnikov, the man who fell from grace for miscalculating the war and not informing Putin of the difficulties of campaign to conquer Kiev. The powerful general and some other influential members of the Russian elite would work on the coup without ruling out any means, from poisoning to some other kind of “accident”, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
