Betrayed By EVERYONE... Putin's Inner Circle Just TURNED Against Him

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:05]starting from the president must be removed from office. Putin's system was built on a simple deal. Immunity for oligarchs, stability for the people, resources for the army, a platform for propagandists, security in exchange for obedience. For 25 years, this deal worked. Now, every side of that deal is tearing apart at the same time. From the doomer, from the streets, from the oligarchs, from the front, from the bloggers, the same voice is rising from all of them. Resignation demands, revolution warnings, even treason accusations. So much so that coup rumors are leaking from inside the Kremlin.

[00:00:45]Putin could suppress a single group. He always did. But when they all turn at once, there's nowhere left to hide. And in the middle of all this, Ukraine is not sitting idle. On the night of May 4th, 2026, a Ukrainian drone struck the Mosfilm Tower just 7 km from the Kremlin. Among the building's residents are senior SVR officials. If a drone can get this close in Moscow, surrounded by S400s, it can reach the Kremlin, too.

[00:01:14]After the attack, snipers appeared on its walls for the first time in 20 years. But what truly frightens Putin isn't the drones coming from outside.

[00:01:23]According to a leaked EU intelligence report published by CNN and the Financial Times, Putin fears being overthrown by his own political elite.

[00:01:33]And the most striking section of the report focuses on a single name, former defense minister and security council secretary Sergey Shooigu. For years, he was Putin's closest friend. They would go fishing together, hiking in the mountains. But now this friendship has turned into a security concern because Shyigu still has a powerful network inside the army and Putin knows it.

[00:01:56]Putin moved to dismantle this network.

[00:01:59]In March 2026, Shyigu's former deputy Rouslan Salikov was arrested for corruption. This is not an ordinary arrest. It's a violation of the Kremlin's unwritten rule. If you're in the inner circle, you don't go to prison. By breaking this rule, Putin sent Shyu a clear message. Your network is unraveling.

[00:02:21]But Putin's fear is not limited to Shyigu. The security perimeter itself is full of holes. On December 22nd, 2025, Lieutenant General Fenil Savough, head of the general staff's operational training department, was killed by a car bomb in his own building's parking lot in Moscow. If a general can be killed in the heart of the capital in an area that should be under FSB protection, then there is no safe place left for Putin. 3 days later, the security chiefs he summoned to a meeting blamed each other.

[00:02:53]Chief of the general staff Valeri Garasimoff harshly criticized FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. Bornikov cited insufficient resources as an excuse. Two institutions that should normally protect each other went for each other's throats. And the Savarov case is not the only one. Earlier in November 2025, the FSB announced it had foiled an assassination attempt against Shyu at Troy Kurovskoya Cemetery. It was known in advance that he would visit his mother's grave, information very difficult to obtain without an insider source. The FSB blamed Ukraine, but the idea of drugaddicted migrants planting explosives at a highsecurity cemetery suggests either someone on the inside opened the doors or the entire narrative is fabricated. In both scenarios, it leads to the same conclusion. The security perimeter no longer provides protection. The perimeter itself has become the threat. All these events shaped Putin's response. Investigative Journalism Project Systemma and RFRL documented that he had identical copy offices built at three different locations. Novo Aario, Si Valdi. The same panels, the same door handles, the same carpets so that even his guards wouldn't know where he is. Independent sociologist Constantine Gars it most resembles Saddam Hussein's. In 2026, he hasn't visited a single military facility. His family has left the residences. He stays in Kranadar bunkers for weeks. State media broadcasts pre-recorded footage. Putin is hiding in his bunker and looking for somewhere he'll find support. But every direction he turns, he gets hit. Perhaps the most unexpected reaction came from those who unconditionally approved Putin for years. On April 22nd, 2026, Communist Party leader Gennady Zuganov, the leader of the party that made the 1917 revolution, addressed Putin directly from the Duma podium. We've told you 10 times the economy is bound to collapse.

[00:05:00]The first quarter was a complete disaster. If you don't take immediate action, financial, economic, and otherwise, then in the fall, we'll face what happened in 1917.

[00:05:13]a communist party leader warning against a communist revolution. This paradox alone shows the severity of the situation. Earlier in February 2026, Samara region duma deputy Gregori Yerv took the floor and said, >> "To immediately end the war in Ukraine, members of parliament must share responsibility with President Putin for the failure of the joint military operations JMO." His microphone was cut within seconds, but the sentences had already been recorded. The fuse for this courage was lit even earlier in the autumn of 2022 at St. Petersburg's Small Ninsko Municipal Council. They submitted an official petition to the state duma demanding Putin's removal from office on charges of high treason. Four arguments: destruction of the army, demographic catastrophe, economic collapse, strategic defeat. Its members were punished, but the message was delivered.

[00:06:10]And four years later, the discontent behind that message has multiplied.

[00:06:14]Meanwhile, even the Kremlin's most loyal propaganda weapon, Vladimir Solovio, is in panic. On live broadcast, he accused everyone complaining about internet outages of being revolutionaries.

[00:06:30]>> He was trying to scare the people, but he exposed the Kremlin's deepest fear.

[00:06:35]When a regime starts threatening its people with don't make a revolution, that regime has already crossed the critical threshold. No support from parliament. What about the streets? On April 30th, 2026, a video from the Samara region exploded on social media.

[00:06:53]Russian women stood directly in front of the camera and demanded Putin's resignation by name.

[00:06:58]>> The kind that's damp and full of rats.

[00:07:01]Go hide there along with all your officials. starting from the president must be removed from office. Around the same time, a citizen from Tuapsi is rebelling.

[00:07:20]The Touaps refinery had been struck four times in two weeks. The regime had been silent for days. In midappril, influencer Victoria Bona, a former reality show star with 13 million followers, addressed Putin directly in an 18-minute video. The people are afraid of you. Artists are afraid.

[00:07:40]Governors are afraid. The people are like a coiled spring. And one day that spring will snap. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Pescov acknowledged that the criticisms touched on affecting subjects, an almost unprecedented step in Kremlin history. State television host Vladimir Salvio hurled personal insults at Bonya and demanded she be declared a foreign agent and Bona hit back with an AI parody that got 10 million views in 24 hours. Solavio wanted to crush her. He made her bigger.

[00:08:13]Putin's former speech writer and political analyst Abbas Galamov summed up the situation. Revolutions are not started by professional revolutionaries.

[00:08:22]They are started by people like Bona, people who were never expected to speak up. No support from the streets. What about the elites? In the fourth year of war, the Kremlin is systematically seizing oligarchs assets to cover budget deficits. Since 2022, companies and assets worth 4 trillion rubles have been transferred to state control. Moscow's largest private airport, DoDovo, Russia's biggest pasta manufacturer, Makfa, and dozens more. The oligarchs did not stay silent. In December 2025, they sent a letter directly to Putin demanding the nationalizations be stopped. An unprecedented challenge in Putin's Russia. And even Putin's closest man is gone. Dmitri Kak, who hadn't left Putin's side for 25 years, who managed the most critical files from the second Chetchin war to the Sochi Olympics, resigned in September 2025. He had warned against the war in 2022 and he was proved right. In 2025, he submitted a comprehensive reform plan, peace negotiations, independent judiciary, economic reform. Putin rejected it. Kak slammed the door and leaked the reform program to the press. Even Putin loyal oligarch Oleg Deripasca criticized the government's failure with unusual harshness. Next year cannot be survived by relying on inertia. According to the Cariegi Center's report, the consensus mechanism within the Kremlin has completely collapsed. Even Ross Neft CEO Igor Setchin, Gennady Timchenko, and the Rottenberg brothers no longer feel safe.

[00:10:02]No support from Parliament. None from the streets. None from the elites. What about the army? A former tractor driver from the front, now fighting as a tanker driver, spoke openly. I'm not fighting for Putin. I'm fighting for money. We hate Putin. No patriotism, no belief, just a paycheck. Colonel General Vladimir Churkin, one of Russia's most experienced military figures, appeared on RBC radio and made a historic confession. We received a serious and brutal lesson. He openly gave a failing grade to the intelligence that told the Kremlin, "70% of Ukrainians support us."

[00:10:42]He mocked former defense minister Shyigu's presentation of the retreat from Kiev as a goodwill gesture. In a country where war criticism carries 15 years in prison, a top general is saying these things and nobody is coming to arrest him. Zed bloggers, those who have been doing the systems propaganda for years, can no longer hide the truth.

[00:11:04]They write openly. The average lifespan of Russian offensives is 12 days. They compare the front to a slaughter house.

[00:11:13]Due to the current leadership's inability to adapt to the realities of war, victory is not possible. Zed blogger Yavghi Gleman cried out in desperation, "We're ruined. 80% of my friends closed their businesses. The system collapsed. They're lying to Vladimir Vladimirovich."

[00:11:32]People no longer say, "If Thesar only knew, he'd fix it." They understand that Thesar knows and doesn't care. And the fate of loyal Zed Patriot lawyer Ilia Rameslo is the most striking of all. On March 17th, 2026, he published a manifesto titled Five Reasons I Stopped Supporting Putin. Putin is not a legitimate president. He should resign and be tried as a war criminal. On March 18th, the anniversary of the Crimea annexation, he was admitted to St. Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital number three. The message is clear. If you speak, you face the consequences. But every silenced voice pushed even more people to speak. Every direction is striking. And Putin's response is to bury himself deeper. But isolation disrupts information flow. Disrupted information produces bad decisions. Bad decisions increase discontent. And the numbers confirm this. Vitzom, Putin's own state polling agency, announced that as of April 2026, his approval rating had dropped to 65.6%, the lowest level since the start of the war. The trust rating declined to 71% with the decline continuing for 7 weeks.

[00:12:51]24.1% of Russia does not trust Putin.

[00:12:55]Seeing these numbers, even from a state poll, means the real discontent is much deeper. Putin's repression apparatus is still massive. FSB, Rosvadia, state media. There is sufficient capacity to suppress disscent, break protests, and silence voices. There is also 25 years of experience. Putin is a master at purging rivals. And the probability of a full-blown uprising is low. There is no organized opposition in Russia. Nalli died in prison. Independent media was shut down. Civil society was crushed.

[00:13:31]The anger on the streets is scattered, leaderless, uncoordinated.

[00:13:36]The 2022 anti-war protests were suppressed within a few weeks. The Kremlin can do the same again. But there is a critical difference here. In 2022, the protesters were people from outside the regime, opposition, liberals, anti-war activists. They were easy to suppress because they could be labeled foreign agents. You cannot label doomer members, retired generals, and zed patriots as foreign agents. If you put them in prison, you lose your own base.

[00:14:07]If you don't, the criticism grows like an avalanche. And the second difference, the economy. 100,000 rubles is now equivalent to 56,000 rubles in 2021.

[00:14:19]Salaries have lost half their value. The labor force has dropped from 7 million to 4.4 million in 4 years. Even central bank governor Nabulina acknowledged the situation. Such a situation has never been seen in Russia's modern history.

[00:14:36]Propaganda. Solivv has lost his credibility. The public trusts bloggers and influencers more than television.

[00:14:43]Mobilization. In 2022, hundreds of thousands fled. According to Yandex data, searches for moving out of the country doubled in 3 months, 40,000 in March. Putin can suppress the discontent of ordinary Russians. But he cannot sustain this war without the support of his own circle in the Kremlin and the oligarch crisis, the doomer rebellion, the military confessions. These are signs that support is eroding. Bony said the people are a coiled spring. Zugenov said 1917 will repeat. The soldier said we hate Putin. Kak resigned after 25 years and 40,000 Russians searched how do I flee the country in a single month.

[00:15:32]These are not separate complaints. They are different faces of a single truth.

[00:15:37]Putin's 25-year promise of stability in exchange for obedience is dead. There is no stability, no security, no victory.

[00:15:46]Regimes don't collapse from the outside, they collapse from within. When soldiers lose their faith, when the people lose their trust, when the elite turn their backs, and when even the word revolution is heard from parliament, that regime is approaching its final pages. And perhaps the heaviest words were spoken by a Stalinrad veteran. He addressed Putin directly. We fought so that you, your children, and your grandchildren would always have clear, peaceful skies above your heads. This is not just an emotional reproach. It is the heaviest treason accusation directed at today's regime by a generation that paid the price with its blood. When will the coiled springs snap? Nobody knows, but the spring is being stretched a little tighter every day. The red lines have been drawn. If this content caught your interest, don't forget to like, leave a comment, and follow the channel.