A split begins in the Russian "elite", which will lead to chaos.

The groups that today are part of the so-called "Russian elite" will want to remove Vladimir

Putin

from the board and seize absolute power in the Russian Federation.

Military expert Mykhailo Samus told about this on the air of "Suspilny" within the framework of the telethon.

"The split is just beginning. What is happening is just further chaos that will develop inside, let's say, the Russian elites, if you can call them that. In any case, the

elites here can be defined as the merger of the special services, crime and the oligarchy

. And these groups of such a mix among themselves, they

are trying to build their next strategies in conditions when Putin's regime will decline

or collapse rapidly. It depends on the development of the situation," he said.

Samus mentioned the private military company "Wagner", which is participating in the war against Ukraine, and its owner Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The expert noted that such PMCs are illegal in Russia, but as Putin's influence will weaken, their leaders will try to seize power in the Russian Federation.

"But Prigozhin, his group, we don't really know who is inside this group. Prigozhin is just a public figure who demonstrates that she is in charge of this army, which is actually outside the law of Russia, because there is no such thing in the legal field of the Russian Federation as private military company. No one is allowed to do this, except for Prigozhin, and now such private armies have begun to appear in other oligarchic-criminal groups, let's call them that. And this all leads to the fact that, indeed, as Putin will weaken, and he is weakening, everyone sees his failures, attempts to smile and demonstrate that everything is fine, everything is going according to plan, but everyone sees that a disaster has already happened and everything is going to a complete collapse, and therefore Putin will decline, and

these groups will try to seize more and more power

and we will see which of them succeeds.

Maybe it will be one group, maybe several, and maybe they will destroy Putin together and only then fight for absolute power

," the expert summarized.

Concerns in the "Russian elite"

Russian "elites" are increasingly concerned 

that players they once considered forgotten, such as Yevgeny Prigozhin, known for his mercenary company Wagner and recruiting prisoners for the war in Ukraine, are pushing Putin to further increase his war effort against Ukraine.

In turn, the owner of "Wagner" PVK Yevgeny Prigozhin 

quarreled with almost all the elites of the Russian Federation.

Russian opposition political scientist Abbas Gallyamov expressed the opinion that the Kremlin elites understand that defeat in the war is inevitable.

Therefore, they are frantically looking for options to prevent riots in Russia itself.

One of the options is the so-called "successor operation".

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