MUTINY IN MOSCOW: Putin's Elites Turn on Him & DEMAND His Resignation

That's just awful.Just look at what's going on in Moscow.A kilometer -long queue at the petrol station.We've been standing here for about 40 minutes.

Things are not going well for Putin.The mounting toll of the war, the fuel crisis hitting the pumps, the inflation turning grocery receipts into a nightmare, and the war coming to Russian cities — Russia's patience is wearing thin.Voices of criticism are now rising across the country.Moreover, these voices are not coming from the opposition.They are coming from those who were once the regime's most fervent defenders.We encounter the latest example of this in a video by the pro -war blogger Goleman.

Take a look at the footage on your screens.This man has supported the Russian army since the very first day of the war.He was even personally raising funds and supplies for the troops on the front line.But now, his words are much sharper.These very words are the summary of Russia in 2026.Furthermore, these voices are no longer isolated exceptions.

From the regime's propagandists to its military analysts and even its most loyal base, The chorus is growing every week.In this video, we are mapping out this fracture within the Kremlin's own ranks.The turning point of this map is the war literally hitting close to home.Today, Moscow's air defense shield can no longer stop the incoming waves of drones.According to the tally by ACLED, which compiles conflict data, the capital was struck 237 times in the first seven months of this year alone.Drones are now reaching even the zones considered safe.

Even Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg is being hit.The Kremlin was forced to cancel this year's Maybe Day parade, citing the drone threat.The most talked -about front of the campaign, however, is the one closest to the ordinary Russian people.Russia's Amazon.Wildberries.Since mid -July, 20 of the company's warehouses have been struck.

The bill for the incinerated inventory exceeded $2 billion.As confirmed to Reuters, the company has begun paying out compensation to those affected by the strikes.According to a post circulating on X, 70 % of the major distribution hubs are damaged, and the company's 1 .3 trillion ruble debt could morph into a systemic banking risk under these conditions.We report this claim with a note of caution, but foreign policy has clearly decoded the strategy itself.Striking the warehouses of an app that sits on every Russian's phone is striking the illusion of a comfortable peace that the Kremlin has been selling for four years.The legitimacy of these attacks sparked a debate even in the Russian opposition press.

But a sentence written by a reader to Meduza was the summary of the debate.Russia opened Pandora's box first.Furthermore, the war is knocking on the doors of the generals as well.On the evening of August 1st, as the birthday of the commander -in -chief of the aerospace forces, General Alexander Chayko, was being celebrated in one of Moscow's luxury restaurants, a bomb hidden in a gift box detonated.The general narrowly escaped.But this is not an isolated incident.

In recent months, attacks on high -ranking commanders have become so frequent that the Ministry of Defense distributed written advisory notices to officers.Grow a beard.Alter your routes.But the real shockwave this incident sent through the pro -war faction wasn't the attack itself.While everyone was talking about the bomb, the detail that frontline supporters like Goldman fixated on was different.As reported in the press, the bill for the party was 9 million rubles.

Our generals have become like oligarchs.Our boys on the front line are asking for a 400 ,000 ruble lada.From that 9 million,

is Goleman's outburst just an isolated fit of rage?With every loyalist who turns on their camera to speak, the answer to that same question becomes a little clearer.And to see that answer, one only needs to look at another figure hailing from the same world as Goleman.That name is Dmitry Borisenko.He was on the front lines of war propaganda for 12 years.an advocate for the annexation of Crimea and the editor of the anti -Maidan publication.

But in July, he stepped in front of the camera and crossed the line completely.I believe the president needs to resign.Moreover, it wasn't just Putin.According to him, the entire leadership, including the state Duma, had to go.Because, in his own words, this invasion was a catastrophic mistake that brought the country to the brink of total destruction.The price a propagandist pays for uttering this sentence in Russia is illustrated by the story of another loyalist.

Ilya Remeslow, a Kremlin lawyer who built his career by reporting Putin's critics, wrote a manifesto in March to his 90 ,000 followers titled Five Reasons Why I Stopped Supporting Putin.Days later, Reuters confirmed his whereabouts.He had been locked away in a psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg.Soviet -style punitive psychiatry has made a comeback.And the truly striking part is this.Even with this price clearly in sight, those who speak out are multiplying.

But not everyone is talking.The real breaking point at the very top of the regime is happening without a sound, in bank transfers.According to a report published by Bloomberg in July, Russia's wealthiest businessmen, including figures close to Putin, have been quietly moving billions of dollars out of the country for the purpose ofIt is estimated that tens of billions of dollars have flowed out through unofficial channels since the beginning of this year alone.The reason for this is not Western sanctions.The sanctions had previously forced these individuals to bring their money back to Russia.

Now the threat comes from within.The state has begun hunting its own wealthy elite.According to the figure personally announced by the prosecutor general, assets worth $51 billion were transferred to the state via court orders last year alone.The founder of the country's largest agricultural holding, one of its largest gold miners, and the owner of Moscow's Domodedovo airport have all lost their empires to the state.All three were wiped from the Forbes list this year for the exact same reason.At a closed -door meeting in March, billionaire Karamov's proposal for a significant financial contribution from big capital to the state, and Putin's glad approval of this proposal, completes the picture.

The escape route is also clear.Crypto, gold, Dubai, and gulf funds.The picture is clear.The base speaks the language of anger.The top speaks the language of accounting.But both are expressing the same lack of confidence.

The diagnosis by Putin's first prime minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, is just one sentence anyway.Putin is facing very, very big problems.So what exactly is this trajectory that is terrifying both the propagandist and the billionaire at the same time?The answer is hidden in four distinct layers.The most persistent target of the drones has been a single sector from the very beginning.Oil refineries.

The toll of the four -month campaign has now gone beyond an energy crisis.It has morphed into a stress test of state capacity.According to the Ukrainian General Staff,statement in early July, 42 .7 percent of Russia's refining capacity has been knocked offline.Even the more cautious estimate by the International Energy Agency puts it at over 20 percent.Bloomberg's analysis, based on satellite tracking, ties the picture to historical lows.

Russia's crude oil processing volume has plunged to a 21 -year low.In the last 100 days, 24 of the country's 34 major refineries were struck.The Kapatnya facility, which supplies Moscow, took two direct hits.According to officials speaking to Reuters, it will remain shut down until at least the end of the year.The reflection on the streets is like frames torn out of Soviet photo albums.In at least 55 of the 83 federal subjects, fuel sales are officially restricted.

Some counts exceed two -thirds of the regions.In Siberia, teachers were deployed alongside the police to de -escalate fights in gas station lines.The administration's response, meanwhile, is a patchwork.While Deputy Prime Minister Novak claimed, the crisis is stabilizing, in the exact same week, Omsk was lifting its ban.whereas Altai was transitioning to a rule allowing a full tank only once every 24 hours.According to independent assessments, 40 percent of the struck refineries have no chance of coming back online within two months.

The most bitter irony of the crisis, however, is being experienced in the very home of oil.Restrictions have hit the pumps even in Kanti Mansi, one of the world's largest production basins.What a Russian resident of the region told the independent press is clearer than all the official statements.We are drowning in oil.Wells are being capped because there's nowhere left to put it.Yet there's no gas at the pump.

I say this as a Russian citizen.This is an absolute disgrace.The black market isn't sitting idle either.As noted in Goleman's video, profiteers on the highways have already started selling a liter of diesel for 100 to 120 rubles.The most official confession of this reality came from the Central Bank of Russia.Governor Elvira Nabulina stated it plainly during her press conference at the end of July.

The fuel crisis is driving up prices across a vast range of goods and services, starting with gasoline.The translation is this.The highest economic authority in the country has admitted that the drone campaign is no longer just hitting the refineries, but the grocery receipt of every Russian.And the patience of these lines has begun to boil over at the edge of the country.The viral words of a resident from Vladivostok in the Far East illustrate the tipping point of ordinary anger.There is no one more cowardly and pathetic than Putin.

Let us unite to get rid of this regime.At the very least, let's raise our voices.Let's do everything we can.For the Russians stepping out of the line, a second shock awaits on the way home — the grocery checkout.In the Kremlin's showcase, inflation is at 5 percent.But the household survey personally commissioned by the central bank delivers a completely different number straight from the kitchens of the very same country.

Russians feel that prices have surged by 15 % over the last year.In the lower -income demographic with no savings, this perception sits at over 16%.There is a gap of up to three times between the official figure and the lived reality.Behind what is felt are concrete price hikes.Value -added tax, VAT, was hiked to 22 % at the start of the year to fund the war chest.Utility bills saw an average increase of nearly 12 % this year, marking the sharpest spike of the wartime era.

The scene reported by the Moscow Times from the supermarkets of Moscow is the everyday translation of this math.Women are now doing their shopping late in the evening, because that is the hour when discount stickers are slapped onto meat and dairy products nearing their expiration dates.The exact same dual reality is operating on the wage front.On paper, the average salary is roughly $1 ,300.But the picture emerging from Rostov in the south is different.The phone of regional assembly member Alexei Misan is ringing off the hook with calls from public sector workers whose salaries have been slashed to the 20 ,000 to 40 ,000 ruble bracket.

Even though during that very same period, the official statistics agency was declaring a nationwide wage increase of 14%.The Russia the state describes and the Russia the people are living in are not the same country.And the structural reason for this is on the record.The street -level voice of this squeeze is now being documented.A Muscovite summarizes it in a single sentence on camera.The top guy tells us to be a little patient.

We've been patient for five years already.And in Russian street slang, everyone knows who the top guy is.In another piece of footage, a Moscow woman's voice trembles.Authorities stopped this war immediately.Enough is enough.To understand the weight of these sentences, remember the context.

In this country, discrediting the army means up to 15 years in prison.The number of those detained for anti -war statements has surpassed 18 ,000, meaning these people are speaking out fully knowing the price.And the echo of this kitchen table reality at the state level was voiced by a figure bred by the regime itself.The words of military analyst Maxim Klimov read like an uncensored balance sheet.The money is running out.The massive investment in our submarine fleet is a complete sham.

Our nuclear submarines are not combat capable.The scarcity that started in the kitchen has now reached the regime's most untouchable budget.Let's open this segment with the simple chain a Russian farmer laid out on camera.If there's no fuel, there's no harvest.If there's no harvest, there's no grain.If there's no grain, there's no feed.

If there's no feed, there's no meat nor milk.You might think this is the exaggeration of an angry man.But data from Ukrainian foreign intelligence puts the first link of that chain into numbers.As of early July, only 1 .3 to 1 .5 million hectares had been harvested in Russia.On the same date last year, that figure was nearly 4 .5 million.The ruthless nature of the calendar is underscored by the sector's most respected analyst, Soveykhan director Andrey Sezov.

Once the grain ripens, there is only a 7 to 10 day window to harvest it.If missed, the kernels fall, and if it rains, the combine harvesters can't enter the fields at all.And the math is clear.A single combine harvester burns up to 300 liters of diesel per shift.Meanwhile, the sales limit at gas stations is 100 to 200 liters.The permitted amount doesn't even cover a single workday.

The scenes coming from the field are the snapshot of this math.In the Kuban region, farmers are spending the night at gas stations in the hope that a tanker will arrive.Loss estimates are also on the table.In Rostov, which yields 10 million tons of grain annually, producers are talking about losses of up to 15 percent.And in Crimea, the epicenter of the fuel collapse, the machinery, in the words of an industry representative, is just sitting there.You know the source.

In the last two months, all 10 of the country's largest refineries were struck.Diesel production dropped by nearly 40%.And here is the most political aspect of this shortage.Distribution.As authorities redistribute the remaining fuel reserves, they are giving priority to the capital region and St. Petersburg.The fuel of the farmer who can't find diesel in the fields is flowing to the metropolises.

The figure diagnosing this choice in the language of rebellion is not an ordinary commentator.It is Igor Lipsitz, one of the founders of Russia's most prestigious economics school, HSE, and an economist now in exile.In his assessment, he describes the crisis as morphing into a class war and adds, I have never seen such immense hatred toward Moscow.Journalist Leonid Bershitsky's warning points in the same direction.As the center hoovers up resources for itself, debates over separatism are flaring up again in the regions.The state's response?

Deputy Prime Minister Patrushev declared that there are no systemic issues with the harvest, without providing a single figure.That bitter joke from the Soviet era is relevant once again 60 years later.Even if the crop is plentiful, it cannot be harvested.If harvested, it cannot be transported.What you have seen up to this point are the fragments of a trajectory, and every single rebelling loyalist is speaking from within these very fragments.So why, despite all of this, is the regime still standing?

First, in public opinion polling, support for the war still hovers in the 65 to 70 percent band.While Putin's approval rating has eroded, it remains at a level most Western leadersonly dream of.Second, the apparatus of repression is functioning.The Remeslow case we detailed in this video is the very proof of that.A clinic, prison, or exile awaits anyone who speaks out, and the 15 -year penalty clause is enough to silence millions of people.

Third, and this is the most critical honesty here, Most of the angry voices in this video are not anti -war.Look at Goldman's actual call to action in that same video.We must strike them so hard that a 50 meter deep crater is formed.That is the only way to deal with fascists.In other words, this rebellion is not a peace movement.It is a demand for a harder war in more honest governance.

And fourth, according to Levada's polling, a growing segment of society isn't even following the war anymore.One in five Russians has completely tuned out the news.Indifference can morph not into anger, but into apathy.And apathy is the climate regimes love most.Now, the response from the prosecution.Regimes rot not from their peripheries, but from their cores.

And every voice you heard in this video came from the core.If propaganda cannot convince its own propagandist, it means it has lost its function.If the army cannot silence its own analyst, it means its authority is being punctured.The sentence that analyst Maxim Klimov uttered in front of the cameras was the most dangerous sentence a military expert could ever construct in Russia.Vladimir Vladimirovich is a weak president.That is a simple fact.

Former U .S.Ambassador Michael McFaul, who watched Putin from across the table for years, uses the exact same word, along with his justifications.He is surrounded only by those who tell him what he wants to hear.He is terrified of every independent voice, and he makes decisionsout of an obsession with going down in history, rather than rational calculation.

From the inside and the outside, it is the exact same diagnosis.What's more, even the crater fury is not safe for the Kremlin.History shows that regimes are most often brought down not from their left flank, but by their own disillusioned hawks.The Golemans of today are saying, strike harder, Tomorrow they will be the ones saying, these incompetents can't even strike.And that is Putin's core problem.You can replace the lying propagandist, but once the distance between the country the propaganda describes and the country that people actually live in becomes visible, no amount of censorship can bury it again.

So, what do you think?How far do you think this fracture on the Kremlin's own front line will grow?Will the anger of the loyalists one day transform into a genuine political force?Or will the regime silence this chorus as well?And who do you think will be the next voice to break away?A general?

A minister?Or someone much closer?Let's meet in the comments.If you'd like to listen to the audio version of this analysis, TGN is now on Spotify.The link is in the description.This is the Geo Network.

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