Ten Kremlin officials question Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to go to war in Ukraine, saying it is a disastrous mistake that will take the country far backwards.
As Bloomberg reports, a small but growing number of senior Kremlin officials oppose the Russian president's war plans in the long-suffering country.
The ten officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the US agency, belong to various high-ranking government departments and state-owned companies.
Although they have expressed their views to him in an attempt to persuade him to change his strategy, Putin has "closed his ears".
He dismisses any warnings from officials about the heavy economic and political costs of war.
Indeed, some of them express fears that the Kremlin strongman could make limited use of nuclear weapons if he judges that his "historic mission," as he sees the war in Ukraine, will not have the expected results.
However, according to Bloomberg, regardless of the "dissenting" officials in the Kremlin, Putin has the support of the Russian elite, but also of the majority of Russians who believe that a clash between Russian and Western values is inevitable.
Putin insists that the decision to invade Ukraine was the right one.
This was reportedly taken by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and Russian Security Council Secretary General Nikolai Patrushev.
Nearly eight weeks after he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Putin is losing more and more soldiers, his country's image is tarnished as he kills civilians, and Russia goes into "isolation" from the international community.
The Ukrainians are resisting fiercely, defending every measure of their territory and not giving up their weapons, something that, it seems, Russia's "tsar" had not taken into account.
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