Last night, it was said that a top Kremlin official addressed Western diplomats and intelligence officials in an effort to assist resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
The insider is said to have indicated that a large portion of Moscow’s elite are very worried about the trajectory of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s incursion into the neighboring nation and are terrified by the bite of wide-ranging Western sanctions.
A memo reportedly sent to Western intelligence services and seen by The Mirror said, “A member of Putin’s closest circle has shown a willingness to engage.”
The elite in the Kremlin are in a state of fear.
The paper purportedly characterized the insider as a ‘pillar of the government’ in Russia, however it is unclear who of Moscow’s senior officials is believed to have thwarted Putin’s ambitions.
A Ukrainian diplomatic source told The Mirror that they would not be shocked to learn that high-ranking Kremlin officials are seeking to establish contact with Western intelligence services behind Putin’s back.
‘As was the situation in the concluding phases of the Second World War,’ the insider said, ‘officials on a side anxious about their future would frequently make attempts to secure it.’
If a prominent politician in Moscow expressed a wish for peace in Ukraine or criticized Putin, their life and that of their family would be in grave risk. Anatoly Chubais, a former deputy prime minister who managed Russia’s transition from a communist to a capitalist economy, resigned as Putin’s special envoy to international organizations in March and fled the country to live in exile in protest of the war.
Late last month, the 67-year-old became unexpectedly and gravely sick after feeling numbness in his limbs. He is now said to be in critical care with a rare neurological condition.
Since the beginning of Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions, more than a dozen inexplicable illnesses and violent murders have befallen Russian businesses, politicians, and their immediate relatives.
Alexander Tyulakov, a top director of the Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom, was discovered dead in his garage on February 25, the day after the invasion of Ukraine started.
The’senior finance and security professional at the rank of deputy general director’ had been hung to death.
The contents of a “suicide note” discovered nearby have not been revealed. According to reports, he was severely assaulted before to his death. Vladislav Avayev, 51, a senior Kremlin official and vice president of Gazprombank, the energy company’s financial subsidiary, was discovered dead in his family’s £2 million apartment on the 14th floor of a Moscow building by his daughter Anastasia on April 18.
Not only Avayev, but also his 47-year-old wife Elena and 13-year-old daughter Maria. All had been shot, and a handgun was found in the hand of the deceased.
Sergei Protosenya, 55, a wealthy and former deputy chairman of Novatek, Russia’s biggest private gas corporation and a significant shareholder of Gazprom, was also discovered hanging in his house garden.
His wife Natalia and 18-year-old daughter were were found dead in the residence. As they slept, they had been chopped to death with an axe.
In the aftermath of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian elites and their families have unexpectedly suffered untimely deaths in a number of incidents in recent months.
It is unclear what kind of assistance the Kremlin insider allegedly provided Western intelligence agencies to help resolve the conflict in Ukraine.