Newsweek: Kremlin Is Looking For Successor To Change Putin

The transit of power will not be peaceful.

The Kremlin is looking for a candidate who will change Vladimir Putin.

Newsweek writes about this.

Newsweek indicates, citing unnamed sources in the White House and an investigation by Russian media outlet Meduza, that Putin underwent serious treatment for cancer in March 2022. Therefore, even during trips abroad, he is replaced by a double.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin is ready to use a double in the event of the temporary removal of the head of the Kremlin due to illness, the publication notes.

Newsweek journalists note that Putin does not consider the head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, to be his successor, although he is close to him, and therefore the transfer of power, when it takes place, will not be peaceful.

“Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev has already said that Putin is delusional and has given a clear order to ignore the will of the president. Putin, proposing Mishustin as a successor, did not say a word about Nikolai Patrushev, who today is not yet the first person in the state, but no longer the second. The situation is heating up and it may happen that a large transit will go completely differently than the main actors in the system expect,” the article reads.