Endgames

Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression.

The Russian president will be sent to a sanatorium to receive medical treatment amid claims he is losing his grip on power due to his ailing health

Russian state TV’s top talk show about Ukraine. Military analyst & retired colonel Mikhail Khodarenok tells anchor Olga Skabeyeva “the situation for us will clearly get worse…we’re in total geopolitical isolation…the situation is not normal.”

General Petraeus is a retired United States Army general and served as Director of the CIA, he speaks to Carole Walker on #TimesRadio

Putin's giant mistakes are first and foremost tragic for Ukrainians. But they also are tragic for Russians, even if many of them, watching Putin's propaganda channels, don't know it.

On May 9, Vladimir Putin marked the 77th anniversary of Russia's Victory Day in World War II by co-opting its narrative to justify invading Ukraine and paint itself as a victim of Western aggression.

The regime offers Russians little more than selective memories of Soviet-era military triumph.

Whatever else Russia's Victory Day parade is supposed to represent, it won't be any sort of victory over Ukraine, regardless of the spin President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin will try to put on it, writes defence analyst Michael Clarke.

On #AxeFiles, former Amb. @McFaul
talks about Putin's tragic, massive miscalculations in Ukraine--and his fallback plan.

Retired Army General Curtis Michael Scaparrotti: Putin's ability to return "as a respectable leader on the world stage is done" and Russians will have to come to terms with the harm that's been done to them as a "nation among nations"