Insights into Putin's Ukraine War Strategy and Potential Consequences.

Some of Putin's top officials and influential oligarchs are secretly against the war in Ukraine, according to former NATO intelligence chief Mikk Marran. Marran said tensions are growing within the Kremlin, but Putin still has a good grip on power. Reports suggest that 15 top businessmen withdrew from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, including billionaires Araz Agalarov, Leonid Fedun, and Alisher Usmanov. Marran said the oligarchs might be unhappy, but they are still worried about their businesses. Despite the problems caused by the war and Western sanctions, the prospects for the current regime collapsing and the country democratising are slim, according to Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service.