Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing unprecedented internal pressure as his ruling elite grows increasingly impatient with the trajectory of the war and the collapsing economy, The Sun and AOL reported. Prominent figures within Putin’s inner circle are reportedly moving financial assets abroad as cohesion within the Kremlin fractures, sparking fears of a potential mutiny.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. German Gref, the 62-year-old head of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, and a former member of Putin’s top team, reportedly demanded an end to the faltering war in Ukraine, accusing the Kremlin of tanking the economy to avoid a humiliating peace deal. Weeks later, billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, a prominent oligarch in the fertilizer industry, made a public plea to the West for economic support, implicitly criticizing Putin’s one-man rule. Analysts note that it is virtually unprecedented for prominent Russian officials to make such demands publicly. The growing dissent is largely driven by financial self-preservation following a sustained campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes that have crippled Russia’s oil infrastructure and its largest e-commerce platform, Wildberries, severely disrupting trade and sparking fuel shortages. According to Jason Smart, an analyst on the war in Ukraine, Russia’s richest individuals have moved tens of billions of dollars abroad over the past year. “They understand that Putin’s regime is on very shaky ground. And at this point, there’s a very good chance that it will fall,” Smart told The Sun, adding that factions within the elite are preparing for a post-Putin Russia. “That also means there’s a high chance for violence.”