Faced With His Failures in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin Is Cornered by the Russian Elites.
The hawks no longer hesitate to publicly question the failures of the Russian army, without the approval of the Kremlin.
While Putin had just spoken a few days earlier of a period of “stabilization,” the explosion that occurred on October 7, 2022, the day of his 70th birthday, on the Crimean bridge, puts his new motto to shame. The defeats of the Russian army on the ground in Ukraine as well.
This bridge, built at great expense and inaugurated by Putin in 2018, symbolized …
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Sylvain Saurel’s Newsletter to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.