{"id":1391985,"date":"2022-03-21T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391985"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:00:47","slug":"ukrainian-intelligence-reports-russian-elites-planning-to-overthrow-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-intelligence-reports-russian-elites-planning-to-overthrow-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Intelligence Reports Russian Elites Planning to Overthrow Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukrainian-intelligence-reports-russian-elites-planning-to-overthrow-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/518670D5-C7AE-4204-BDDC-51D028EABBAC-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new report claims that a group of unnamed Russian elites are planning to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoisoning, sudden illness, accident \u2014 Russia\u2019s elite is considering removing Putin,\u201d declared a Sunday\u00a0Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=274534258191335&#038;set=a.230157749295653&#038;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0from the Chief Directorate of Intelligence for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of influential people in opposition to Vladimir Putin is being formed among the Russian business and political elite,\u201d the directorate said, according to a translation. \u201cTheir goal is to remove Putin from power as soon as possible and restore economic ties with the West that were destroyed by the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence alleged that the group of elites is looking at Alexander Bortnikov, the Russian director of the Federal Security Service and a member of Putin\u2019s inner circle, as a replacement. The directorate said Bortnikov and Putin have had falling out after Putin blamed him for \u201cfatal miscalculations\u201d in the planning and execution of the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBortnikov and his department were responsible for analyzing the mood of the population of Ukraine and the capacity of the Ukrainian army,\u201d the directorate said. \u201cA certain part of the Russian political elite of the Russian Federation considers as the successor of Putin \u2013 the director of FSB Alexander Bortnikov. It is noteworthy that Bortnikov has recently fallen out of favor with the Russian dictator. The official reason for the disgrace of the head of the FSB \u2013 fatal miscalculations in the war against Ukraine,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Bortnikov and his department who were responsible for analyzing the mood of the Ukrainian population and the capacity of the Ukrainian army. It is known that Bortnikov and some other influential members of the Russian elite are considering various options for removing Putin from power. In particular, poisoning, sudden illness, or other \u2018accident\u2019 is not excluded,\u201d the post added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible that these processes are connected with the recent \u2018downpour\u2019 of the location of Chechen units in the north of Kyiv. The information came from the Russian side. Probably, this is how the FSB leadership is trying to weaken Kadyrov\u2019s influence. It may also be an attempt to establish cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities in advance, bypassing the current leadership of the Russian Federation,\u201d according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that both Russia and Ukraine have released propaganda to bolster their claims of dominance in the current war between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Others have called for the assassination of Putin, including U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he continues to be their leader, then he\u2019s going to make you complicit with war crimes,\u201d Graham said in an interview with Fox. \u201cYou\u2019re a good people, you\u2019ll never have a future, you\u2019ll be isolated from the world, and you\u2019ll live in abject poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m hoping somebody in Russia will understand that he\u2019s destroying Russia, and you need to take this guy out by any means possible,\u201d Graham added.<\/p>\n<p>He has tweeted: \u201cIs there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country \u2014 and the world \u2014 a great service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report claims that a group of unnamed Russian elites are planning to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201cPoisoning, sudden illness, accident \u2014 Russia\u2019s elite is considering removing Putin,\u201d declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}