A Russian government source has told Russian-Latvian outlet Meduza that Kremlin officials and other Russian elites have turned on Putin. The source explained that there are "almost no people who are satisfied with Putin".
They said: "Businessmen and many members of the government are unhappy that the President started the war without thinking about the scale of the sanctions - it is impossible to live with such sanctions.
"The problems [in Russia due to the war] are already visible, and by midsummer they will come from different directions: transport, medicine, even agriculture.
"No one simply thought of such a scale."
This sentiment was later corroborated by two other government insiders...
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