Abbas Galiamov, former speechwriter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned that while Moscow is "blindly pursuing its bloody invasion" in Ukraine, the situation at home is heading towards a military coup, he said.
The conditions are already in place for a full-blown insurrection, Galliamov says, writing in a new column for the opposition channel Open Russia (Mozhem Obyasnit): "The longer the war drags on, the more obvious its futility becomes."
The American "Daily Beast" website - which reported the news - pointed out Galliamov's observation that the Russian people have begun to realize to a large extent that the Kremlin's dream of overthrowing the Kyiv "regime" will not be achieved, and that the consolation prize of new "Russian" lands will not attract any Person.
Galliamov argues that the dispute is also increasing in the army, where "Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, questioned the credibility of the system in the eyes of the military personnel, and anger at the authorities allowing a criminal who trampled on them to grow stronger," he says.
He commented that the image of Putin, "proud and cunning" - as he described it - has disintegrated "with the accumulation of problems in the country and the army that the authorities cannot solve, and Putin is constantly transforming in the eyes of the people from a brilliant strategist to an ordinary, lousy dictator."