I saw this recently on Alternet – ‘We ask you to relieve yourself of your post’: Kremlin officials have begun a mutiny against Vladimir Putin – Alternet September 11, 2022: https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/kremlin-officials-mutiny-vladimir-putin/ Longer article.
Brandon Gage September 11, 2022
Halfway through his invasion of Ukraine’s sixth bloody month, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Moscow is imploding as scores of Kremlin officials are calling upon the 69-year-old autocrat to quit.
Putin had anticipated his February 24th “special military operation” to be a cakewalk through the Russian-controlled East into the Ukrainian capitol of Kyiv. But with the aid of a Western coalition led by the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s unshatterable resistance campaign has decimated Putin’s combat forces and depleted his military’s offensive capabilities.
Casualties have climbed into the tens of thousands. Numerous allegations of genocide committed against Ukrainian civilians have flooded international watchdog organizations. The global economy has suffered major setbacks. Europe quivers on the brink of potentially multiple atomic disasters. And Moscow’s finest are either bogged down or on the run.
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