Anonyme Briefe über die Lage beim FSB - Guardian (Politik)

binneuhier, Duesseldorf, Donnerstag, 24.03.2022, 08:52 (vor 1367 Tagen) @ Thomas

The risk of coup by Russia’s federal security service (FSB) against President Putin is growing every week that the war in Ukraine continues, a whistleblower at the heart of Russian intelligence has said.

The whistleblower claims that chaos and discontent have engulfed the security services after Russia’s botched invasion of Ukraine.

Letters written by an anonymous Russian intelligence analyst to Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian activist and founder of the human rights group Gulagu.net, have since been published online.

Osechkin told The Times that the risk taken by intelligence agents in speaking out was a sign of their growing anger towards Putin and discontent from the effect that sanctions have had on FSB officers who will no longer be able to “go on holidays to their villas in Italy and take their kids to Disneyland Paris”.

Speaking from his home in France, where he has lived in exile since 2015, Osechkin told the newspaper:

For 20 years Putin created stability in Russia. FSB officers, policemen, state prosecutors — those people inside the system — were able to live good lives.

But now that has all gone. They recognise that this war is a catastrophe for the economy, for humanity. They don’t want to go back to the Soviet Union.

For every week and every month that this war continues, the possibility of a rebellion by those in the security services increases.”