Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s former speechwriter believes Ukraine’s incursion into Russia has ruined “everything” for the president, as the public become disillusioned with the war.

Exiled Abbas Gallyamov has been on Putin’s wanted list as a “foreign agent” since March 2023.

He served as speechwriter and adviser to the president but quit in 2010.

He left the country in 2018 to live in Israel when he started to fear the direction Russia was going in and has not been back for three years.

Speaking to Times Radio this week, Gallyamov suggested Ukraine’s shock incursion of Russia is unravelling Putin’s public image, now Kyiv has taken 1,000 sq km of land.

Russia has refused to move troops from the Ukrainian region of Donbas – which the Kremlin is determined to annex – to protect the Russian area of Kursk from Ukraine.

“It seems like he is ready to sacrifice Russian territory for Ukrainian territory,” he said, adding that this is behaviour “of a real fanatic, like not a normal........

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