Vladimir Putin's risk of being deposed by a Russian security-service led coup is growing every week, a whistleblower has claimed.
Chaos and discontent over Russia's botched invasion of Ukraine has grown within the ranks of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), and Putin's position at the head of the Kremlin is growing increasingly unstable, the source claimed.
When Russia unleashed its invasion on February 24, a swift toppling of Ukraine's democratically elected government seemed likely. But with Wednesday marking four full weeks of fighting, Russia is bogged down in a grinding military campaign.
Speaking to The Times, Vladimir Osechkin - a man wanted for his work exposing abuse in Russia's prisons - has shared updates from a source within the FSB that suggests anger towards Putin is mounting.
The Russian president is said to blame the FSB for the failure to quickly take control of the country. FSB officers meanwhile are becoming disillusioned with increasingly oppressive sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, and are growing frustrated.
Citing his source, Osechkin told the newspaper that this has meant the country's high-flying secret service agents have been prevented from travelling to their holiday homes or have been unable to 'take their kids to Disneyland Paris'.
FSB officers are paid far more than the average Russian, and are also handed an apartment by the state. Putin himself was the director of the FSB from 1998 to 1999, before he become president in 2000,...
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