‘The main goal is to physically eliminate Putin’: Anti-Russian activists and former Moscow politicians gather in Poland to discuss Vladimir’s removal from power

• Group of anti-Russian activists and former politicians met near Warsaw, Poland
• They said that a revolution and civil war was the only way to remove Putin from power, with some suggesting that the Kremlin leader ‘should be killed’
• One former politician said that the ‘main goal is to physically eliminate Putin’
• It comes as Russian soldiers are suffering devastating losses in Ukraine

Anti-Russian activists and former Moscow politicians have gathered in Poland to discuss overthrowing Vladimir Putin and ‘physically eliminating’ the Kremlin leader.

The group, who met in Jablonna near Warsaw over the weekend, said that a revolution and civil war was the only way to remove Putin from power, with some suggesting that the Kremlin leader ‘should be killed’.

Other activists, such as lawyer Alexei Baranovsky, said that those who remained loyal to Putin throughout the Ukraine war should also be killed, reports Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Former Russian politician Viacheslav Maltsev pointed to how a revolution could occur given that some of Putin’s opponents are already involved in a ‘guerrilla fight’ aimed at ending the war in Ukraine which has seen around 100,000 Russian soldiers killed.

‘The main goal is to physically eliminate Putin,’ Maltsev, who fled Russia after the Kremlin accused him of being an ‘extremist’ for opposing the government, said during the meeting. 

Maltsev added that Putin’s assassination would lead to a civil war, but it would ‘not be as bloody as the war in Ukraine’.

Another former politician, who was not named, said: ‘The fight against terrorists requires terrorists’ methods.’  

Anti-Russian activists and former Moscow politicians have gathered in Poland to reportedly discuss overthrowing Vladimir Putin and ‘physically eliminating’ the Kremlin leader (pictured on Monday)

Volunteers of the Ukrainian World Foundation inspect a former Russian military fortification in the northern Kherson region

But some of the former Russian politicians and anti-Kremlin activists were opposed to a plan of killing Putin, saying instead that the Russian leader should be ‘handed over to international courts’ for a trial over war crimes committed in Ukraine.

The gathering of the activists in Poland is yet another example of growing anti-Kremlin sentiment, with even Putin’s troops staging mutinies against the warmonger for sending them to the front line with a lack of supplies and equipment.

In September, a group of Russian politicians from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kolpino risked their livelihoods to demand Putin resign in the wake of his collapsing invasion.  

‘We believe that the actions of President Vladimir Putin inflict harm on the future of Russia and its citizens,’ they said in a statement, adding: ‘We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the office of President of the Russian Federation.’

The talk of ousting Putin comes as he struggles to make gains in Ukraine, with his soldiers suffering catastrophic losses in the battlefield.

In an extraordinary move, Russian marines from Russia’s 155th Naval Brigade wrote a scathing letter to their regional governor after 300 men from their battalion had been killed or injured in four days of heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Videos show the desperate Russian troops fleeing from their burning tanks and a group of soldiers being blown up by Ukrainian missiles during the disastrous assault on the town of Pavlivka.

Footage shows Russian marines from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade driving a burning T-80BVM tank, along a road in the largely destroyed town of Pavlivka, as flames and black smoke erupted from the vehicle following a Ukrainian strike

A group of Russian soldiers can be seen climbing on top of the tank and jumping down before they ran away from the burning wreck

Footage shows the marines driving a burning T-80BVM tank along a road in Pavlivka, as flames and black smoke erupted from the vehicle following a Ukrainian strike.

A group of Russian soldiers can be seen climbing on top of the tank and jumping down before they ran away from the burning wreck. 

Another astonishing video shows dozens of Russian marines, packed closely together, running into a deserted house in the town. A few seconds later, Ukrainian missiles rained down on them in a deadly strike.

Further footage shows Russian soldiers driving their tanks through minefields, with their vehicles erupting into flames one by one. 

A number of Vladimir Putin’s men can be seen lying dead in the ditches of the fields surrounding Pavlivka after they were shot by Ukrainian soldiers after they tried to flee their burning tanks.

The videos show just how calamitous Russia’s assault on Pavlivka earlier this month was – and provides further evidence of Russian generals treating their recruits as ‘cannon fodder’.

The assault was so disastrous that the Russian marines from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, who led the four-day assault, publicly criticised their ‘incompetent’ generals in an open letter. 

Another astonishing video shows dozens of Russian marines, packed closely together, running into a deserted house in the town

A few seconds later, Ukrainian missiles rained down on them in a deadly strike

Further footage shows Russian soldiers driving their tanks through minefields, with their vehicles erupting into flames one by one

The soldiers wrote a scathing letter to their regional governor, claiming they had lost 300 servicemen in a four-day massacre in Pavlivka thanks to the catastrophic planning of Generals Rustam Muradov and Zurab Akhmedov.

The marines claimed Russian commanders were ‘hiding’ the mayhem in the Donetsk region and ‘playing down the number of losses for fear of being held responsible’.

The soldiers demanded in their letter that Vladimir Putin is personally told of the alleged massacre and that he will set up an independent military commission.

The disastrous assault comes as footage appeared to show thousands of mobilised Russian soldiers staging an extraordinary mutiny against their general for sending them to the front line with a lack of supplies and equipment.

Major-General Kirill Kulakov, 53, faced chants of ‘get out of here’, ‘shame on you’, and ‘down with Putin’s regime’ as thousands of mobilised men joined a protest at their training base in the city of Kazan, southwest Russia, on the night before they were due to be sent to the front line.

Soldiers who led the mutiny told superiors they could not fight because they had endured weeks of water shortages and scarce rations – and now they were going to be sent into battle with ‘rusty machine guns from the 1970s’.

Russia’s defence ministry took a rare step today of denying the allegations that the naval infantry unit had suffered disastrous losses of men and equipment in the battle.

It rejected the rejected the assertion that the marines unit had suffered ‘high, pointless losses in people and equipment’.

Ukrainian servicemen from the 127th brigade looks up to the sky after hearing the sound of a drone at their position near the Ukrainian border with Russia in the Kharkiv region on Saturday

On the contrary, in the course of 10 days it had advanced 5 km (over 3 miles) into Ukrainian defensive positions, RIA quoted the ministry as saying. The statement specifically denied that the brigade’s commanders had shown incompetence.

‘Due to the competent actions of the unit commanders, the losses of marines for the given period do not exceed 1% of combat strength, and 7% wounded, a significant part of whom have already returned to duty,’ it said.

The unusual denial suggested the reported losses had touched a raw nerve at a point in the war’s ninth month when Russian forces are under heavy pressure in partly occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow has proclaimed as its own territory – actions denounced as illegal by Kyiv, the West and most countries of the United Nations.

Russian military bloggers, some of whom command audiences of half a million or more on social media, have become increasingly critical of the failings of Moscow’s generals since Ukraine recaptured large parts of the northeast of the country in September.

It comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russia is suffering heavy losses in continuing ‘fierce’ attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.

‘Very fierce Russian attacks on Donetsk region are continuing. The enemy is suffering serious losses there,’ Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

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