Russian FSB agents form 'firing squad' to take out Putin over Ukraine war, expert says

dailystar.co.uk:

unfolding disaster in Ukraine puts Russian leader Vladimir Putin in very real danger of being deposed in a coup by the security services, according to a Moscow source.

Dissident Vladimir Osechkin – who is on Russia’s most-wanted list for his work in exposing abuse in Russia’s prisons – says he has received letters from a source at the heart of the FSB security service, the modern equivalent of the KGB, revealing growing discontent within the agency.

One of the communications from Osechkin’s course predicts that the invasion of Ukraine will be a “total failure” and could lead in “real international conflict” in the coming months.

The FSB source said said they could not rule out the possibility of a “real global horror” beginning by the summer, saying they expected “some f***ing adviser to convince the leadership” to send an ultimatum to the West threatening a third world war if sanctions were not lifted.FSB agents are Russia’s ”new nobility”, using their sky-high earnings to send their children to posh boarding schools in the UKBeing able to “go on holidays to their villas in Italy and take their kids to Disneyland Paris” is seen as a perk of the job.But Putin’s catastrophic campaign in Ukraine, meant to take a few days but now dragging on for weeks, has allowed time for the Western powers to reach agreement and implement swingeing sanctions that take away all the Russian ruling class’s little luxuries.And now, Putin’s biographer Mark Galeotti says, a “circular firing squad” is beginning to form in the halls of the Kremlin.“Senior FSB officers are ruthless, highly competent opportunists,” he writes in the Daily Mail.“They do not support the war out of patriotic mania, or because they subscribe to Putin’s bare-chested cult.