Vladimir Putin’s inner circle “secretly hate” him and the dictator will be toppled in a “palace coup” within the next year.

This comes from lawyer Ilya Remeslo - earlier a staunch backer of the invasion ofUkraine, and seen as linked to the Russian security services.

He is taunting Putin, 73, to arrest him by saying he wants to be a leader of a newRussiaafter a “revolution” and “have some role in the future in ensuring the transfer of power”.

Remeslo’s incendiary comments came in an extraordinary interview with prominent media personality Ksenia Sobchak, who is known as Putin’s ‘goddaughter’.

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Warring Russia is beset by problems and the “root cause” is Putin — “the man at the very top, the one who runs it all,” he said.

“It'sVladimir Putin. It's obvious. Everyone knows it.”

He announced: “I am the person who knows how to fight Vladimir Putin, who knows the system's weaknesses, how to interact with it, and how to lure people out of it.”

Unlike tragic opposition leader Alexei Navalny - another lawyer widely seen as having been murdered in a Russian hellhole prison - Remeslo, 42, said he comes from within the system.

Source: Daily Express :: World Feed