Mafia struggle to begin with exit of Putin's group - Piontkovsky

Washington-based political scientist Andrey Piontkovsky said this on Espreso TV. 

“A mafia war will begin in Russia. If you recall the war in Soviet Russia, including the war in Ukraine in 1917, it was a war between the whites and the reds. They had certain beliefs, certain views on the future of Russia, on understanding life in general. Now it will be a mafia fight,” Piontkovsky explained.

According to him, with the departure of Putin's group, a huge amount of property is exposed.

“There will be a large-scale war for the redistribution of large property that will be left without an owner. In general, the Russians will have a lot to do over the next few years. The task of Ukraine and the West will be to take care of their own security so that post-Putin Russia will never again be able to threaten Ukraine and the whole world. And the processes inside Russia will be catastrophic,” Piontkovsky added.

• On May 15, it became known that Prigozhin allegedly offered Ukraine to disclose data on the positions of Russian troops for attacks in exchange for the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Bakhmut.

• The UK Defense Ministry reported that Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin has called for the election of a new president to restore relations with Europe.