Updated: Putin’s Ukraine Folly Enables Kremlin Rivals

Former Putin seechwriter says Kremlin ripe for military coup as wartime losses aggravate tensions with army, spy services, Wagner Group

AS WE NEAR the one-year anniversary of Russia’s all-out assault on Ukraine, the political fractures inside Russia are on public display—among the Moscow elite, the Wagner mercenary group, the intelligence services, the official propagandists and the Russian Defense Ministry. The “special operation” that Vladimir Putin expected to take three days is now …