Russian President Vladimir Putin must contend with faltering morale at home and on the front lines of the war in Ukraine.
“The Russian soldiers are having a terrible, terrible time in the field,” former U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker, a one-time special envoy for the Ukraine crisis, observed to the Washington Examiner. “They’re freezing to death, some of them. They’re poorly organized. The least-trained are getting thrown up to the front lines as cannon fodder. It is absolutely abysmal for the Russian troops.
The Kremlin’s own polling data reportedly suggests that “fewer and fewer Russians believe Putin did the right thing by starting the conflict,” according to the Moscow Times. Calls purportedly intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence services leave an image of Russian conscripts turning to vodka to distract from the misery of their circumstances.
Another prominent analyst described a “crisis of strategic planning” on the part of the Russian commanders tasked with prosecuting the “special military operation,” in Putin’s preferred euphemism for the war. Putin, against that backdrop, touted the acquisition of territory along the Ukrainian coast of the Sea of Azov as a victory in the style of Russia’s most iconic emperor.That statement, which marks at least the second time that Putin has invoked his imperial predecessor, played into Ukrainian appeals for Western countries to provide additional weapons rather than hope for a ceasefire.
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