Moscow Elite Are Plotting To Topple Putin

A smal number of Moscow’s elite secretly opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly plotting to topple him, Ukrainian intelligence has claimed.

- Chris Hughes

Among the conspiracies against him are poisoning or an accident, Kyiv sources say, who claim the cell wants to be rid of the Russian leader as soon as possible.

It is believed their preferred replacement is spymaster and once top Putin sidekick Alexander Bortnikov, who has fallen out of favour with the Moscow despot, over errors in the Ukraine war.

Putin has lashed out at and sacked eight generals in a bid to divert blame from himself for the bloody war which has killed almost 15,000 of his troops in just 25 days.

The increasingly paranoid leader has even publicly ranted about “traitors” and “scum” who he suspects of being disloyal to Moscow, possibly by leaking information.