Kremlin official 'secretly approaches West to end war in Ukraine'

Senior Kremlin official ‘secretly approaches West to bring Ukraine invasion to an end’

• A top Russian official allegedly contacted Western diplomats and spy chiefs
• The official is said to want to help the West to bring an end to the war in Ukraine
• Russian elites who publicly criticise Putin’s war are likely to meet a sticky end
• Several Russian officials, oligarchs and their families have been taken gravely ill or have turned up dead in the months since Russia invaded Ukraine 

A senior Kremlin official has approached Western diplomats and intelligence chiefs in a bid to help end the war in Ukraine, it was alleged last night.

The source is said to have claimed that much of Moscow’s elite are highly concerned about the trajectory of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion into the neighbouring country and are alarmed by the bite of wide-ranging sanctions levied by the West in response.

A document, purportedly circulated to Western intelligence agencies and seen by The Mirror, said: ‘A representative of Putin’s inner-circle sent a signal about the desire to negotiate. 

‘The mood of the Kremlin elite is panic.’ 

It is unclear which member of Moscow’s top officials is likely to have undermined Putin’s plans, but the document supposedly described the insider as a ‘pillar of the regime’ in Russia.

The source is said to have claimed that much of Moscow’s elite are highly concerned about the trajectory of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion into the neighbouring country (Putin pictured)

The source is supposedly a top Kremin official who was described as a ‘pillar’ of Putin’s regime (Red Square, Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow)

A Ukrainian diplomatic source told The Mirror they would not be surprised to hear that high level Kremlin officials are attempting to connect with Western intelligence agencies behind Putin’s back.

‘It is often the case as happened in the closing stages of the Second World War that officials on a side concerned about their future make approaches to ensure it,’ the source said.

If a top politician in Moscow were to publicly declare a desire for peace in Ukraine or criticise Putin, their life would be in extreme danger along with their family. 

Anatoly Chubais, a former deputy prime minister who oversaw Russia’s transformation from communist to capitalist economy, resigned his post as Putin’s special envoy to international organisations in March and left Russia to live in exile in protest over the the war.

The 67-year-old was taken suddenly and seriously ill late last month after experiencing numbness in his limbs and is now believed to be in intensive care suffering from a rare neurological disorder.

Pictured: The first Kremlin official to quit over the war, Anatoly Chubais, left, in March, and, right, in hospital in Italy in August 

The Chubais case is only the latest in a series of mysterious illnesses and violent deaths — more than a dozen — to have befallen Russian businessmen, officials and their close families, since Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine began and Western sanctions were imposed.

On February 25 — the day after the Ukraine invasion began — a senior official of Russia’s energy giant Gazprom, Alexander Tyulakov, was found dead in his garage.

The ‘senior financial and security official at deputy general director level’ had died by hanging. 

A ‘suicide note’ was found nearby, the contents of which have not been disclosed. Reports said he had been ‘badly beaten’ before death. 

Ex-Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice-president Vladislav Avayev, 51, (pictured) found dead by his daughter Anastasia, 26, amid suspicions he killed his ‘pregnant’ wife, Yelena, 47, and daughter Maria, 13, before taking his own life, in Moscow

On April 18, Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official and vice president of Gazprombank, the energy company’s financial affiliate, was found dead by his daughter Anastasia in his family’s £2 million flat on the 14th floor of a Moscow block.

And not only Avayev — but his wife Elena, 47, and their other daughter Maria, 13. All had been shot and a pistol discovered in the dead man’s hand.

Meanwhile, millionaire Sergei Protosenya, 55, former deputy chairman of Novatek — Russia’s largest private gas company of which Gazprom is a major shareholder — was also found hanged in his villa garden. 

The bodies of his wife Natalia and 18-year-old daughter were also in the house. They had been hacked to death with an axe as they slept.

These are just some examples of many cases in recent months in which Russian elites and their families mysteriously met an untimely end in the wake of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

It is unclear what kind of aid the Kremlin insider has purportedly offered to Western intelligence agencies to help bring the war in Ukraine to an end. 

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