'I wouldn't bank on anything happening in that respect,' Liz Truss told Newsweek about Western hopes for a Kremlin palace coup.
"I think there's a lot of wishful thinking going on," Truss said."Of course, we all think it's an appalling regime, but I wouldn't bank on anything happening in that respect."have so far proved unfounded, regardless of the reported discomfort within Russian elites and the vicious public struggle for influence between influential oligarchs and Kremlin officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Tyumen Region Governor at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on May 11, 2023. Putin has used the Ukraine war to further suppress domestic opposition.Putin has used his war to further suppress dissent at home. Thousands of Russians who marched against the war—and later against the"partial mobilization" that followed Moscow's early battlefield defeats—have been imprisoned, with some reportedly forced to the front.
Opinion polls—inherently unreliable in a totalitarian state where dissent carries a high cost—indicate a mix of popular sentiments regarding the war, but most surveys show little sign of an imminent anti-Putin wave.say they are focused primarily on the battlefield, not Kremlin corridors of power. Truss toldthat Kyiv's Western partners should also focus on the ongoing battles that will determine where, when, and how the conflict ends.
"In the longer term, of course, I would like to see Russia headed in the right direction and become a freer, more democratic country," she said."I think that's a very long-term project." "I believe the Ukrainian people will never give up," she added."I think the resistance to the Russian invasion is so strong that I don't believe it is possible for Russia to have any kind of long-term success in Ukraine. I think the question is, how do we prevent as much human misery as possible by ending this war as quickly as possible? I think that's the question."
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