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  "textContent": "Ilya Remeslo (left) hit out at Vladimir Putin (right) earlier this week in a series of attacking posts on Telegram He is now inside a facility (Pictures: East 2 West news)\n\nA pro-Kremlin lawyer and propagandist who suddenly turned on Vladimir Putin has reportedly been admitted to a psychiatric clinic.\n\nTV pundit Ilya Remeslo, 42, was previously a staunch Putin supporter and endorser of Russia’s illegal invasion into Ukraine.\n\nBut earlier this week, he posted a series of messages on the messaging website Telegram, describing him as a ‘war criminal, liar, and thief’, and forecast a coup would topple him this year.\n\nHe said Putin’s war in Ukraine had turned into an abject failure with up to two million casualties.\n\n‘Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president,’ he posted. ‘Vladimir Putin must resign and be prosecuted as a war criminal and a thief.\n\n‘[Putin] is becoming weaker and weaker, year after year. You can see what is happening now, complete disarray and instability.\n\nRemeslo described Putin as a ‘war criminal, liar, and thief’, and forecast a coup would topple him this year (Picture: Ilya Remeslo/e2w)\n\nHe said Putin’s war in Ukraine had turned into an abject failure with up to two million casualties (Credits: EPA)\n\n‘There are already clear signs of an approaching collapse of the system. Because Putin is afraid to surround himself with worthy rivals, people who could genuinely compete with him, he will lose power.\n\n‘This will most likely happen this year, in 2026.’\n\nHe criticised Kremlin propaganda which claims the West is preparing WW3 against Russia.\n\n‘No one is calling for war against Russia,’ he said. ‘But now the war is being waged solely for Putin’s ego complexes, and we ordinary citizens get nothing from it, only losses.’\n\nSuch was the disbelief of his furious onslaught, which spread like wildfire among Kremlin officials, that Remeslo posted a video to insist these were his words and he had not been hacked.\n\nHours later, Remeslo was reportedly admitted to a psychiatric facility in St Petersburg.\n\nFriends have said they have been unable to reach him at the Skvortsov-Stepanov City Psychiatric Hospital in the city of St. Petersburg.\n\nHe was reportedly sent to a ward for patients suffering from ‘delusions, thought disorders, and incoherent speech’.\n\nFirefighters put out the fire in an multi-storey apartment building following a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Picture: AP)\n\nRescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine (Credits: via REUTERS)\n\nThe hospital – in Putin’s home city – was used in Soviet times for ‘punitive psychiatry’.\n\nIn recent years, there have been allegations of torture inside the jail.\n\nRemeslo denunciation of Putin – the strongest since the war started from an insider – raises questions of whether figures in Putin’s elite are now turning against him.\n\nIn recent weeks, the regime has been blocking mobile internet access in Moscow and on the frontline amid the failing war and looming economic calamity.\n\nSecurity has been stepped up around the Kremlin.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Putin supporter admitted to psychiatric hospital ‘hours after he turns against leader’"
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