Russia's defeat in Ukraine will spark vicious infighting between Kremlin elites that can plunge Russia into a brand new civil struggle, in keeping with a Chechen insurgent chief. He additionally predicted that Chechens would stand up and overthrow their brutal President Ramzan Kadyrov and a brand new state unifying all of the peoples of the Caucasus would emerge from the revolutionary ashes.

Over the previous 4 days, anti-Putin activists have been attending the third session of the Congress of People's Deputies in Warsaw, Poland.

Delegates continued their deliberations over a brand new Constitution for a democratic and free Russia, in addition to furthering their plans to overthrow Putin and his regime.

Ilya Ponomarev, one of many founding members of the Congress who sits on its Executive Council, informed the Express that whereas the "terrorist Putin" was nonetheless alive, there might be no peaceable or diplomatic options to the present disaster.

He mentioned the one strategy to cease the "nightmare" was to ship a decisive army defeat towards Putin.

The Congress was addressed by a lot of visitor audio system, which included Ruslan Kutaev - a veteran Chechen politician who served as a minister underneath President Dzhokar Dudayev after which as a deputy prime minister underneath his eventual successor Aslan Maskhadov after the nation had declared its independence from Russia firstly of the Nineteen Nineties.

He is presently the President of the Assembly of the People of the Caucasus, an organisation dedicated to creating an unbiased state that comes with all of the totally different nationalities of the area.

Mr Kutaev informed Express.co.uk that Russia was heading for defeat in Ukraine - a situation that will result in Putin's elimination and an almighty scramble amongst Kremlin elites to safe their monetary belongings.

The insurgent chief pointed to the creation of personal militias by Russian oligarchs as proof that Kremlin elites had been getting ready for political turmoil and battle.

He mentioned: "I think it's unlikely they can avoid a civil war. Why was there no civil war in 1991? Because in 1991 there were no rich people.

"No one had something to lose. But right this moment they do.

"Gazprom has created its own army and according to the latest information, between 30-50 oligarchs have created private militias.

"Why have they created these armies? They created their armies to guard their wealth.

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"It's known as a conflict of interests - they will definitely fight each other.

"There's no escape from it - there will likely be no energy construction robust sufficient to regulate them."

One of Putin's roles has been to manage the competition between elites for state resources - something at which he has proven particularly adroit.

That competition over the years has intensified considerably as resources become increasingly scarce.

Many political analysts believe that once Putin goes, elite competition will spiral out of control - leading to infighting and political anarchy.

Mr Kutaev, who was imprisoned for four years in 2014 and tortured during his incarceration, said that Putin's fall from power would inevitably weaken Kadyrov and allow rebels to retake power in Chechnya.

He claimed that ninety percent of Kadyrov's supporters would desert him and join the rebel side, once they realised the game was up.

He said: "We are preparing, placing the framework for change in place.

"We know every district and how many people we can count on. We say to our followers - 'be patient, don't rush things, don't let them imprison you or kill you - hold your fire. The time for change is coming.'

"When we resolve the state of affairs with Russia, we can't have any issues in retaking our nation."