Putin stands over the corpses of three hundred thousand people
The Russian President will not attend the major G20 summit in Indonesia, and this is not a surprising piece of news. It was natural that he would not find space to be present alongside the leaders of other countries, even if he has the serious support of Saudi Arabia’s bin Salman.
By announcing the order for Russian forces to withdraw from Kherson, Putin has complicated the equations of his aggressive campaign in Ukraine. The Ukrainians and their Western allies are pleased with this withdrawal, yet they do not see this move as a simple surrender of the region. We should expect the heaviest battles in recent months in these areas. Wherever the Russians retreat, they resort to widespread destruction and maximum landmine placement.
In a simple yet astonishing media event, Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the British Army, during a live television interview, called on the Chief of the Russian General Staff to stage a coup against Vladimir Putin.
The situation that Vladimir Putin has created is a tangle of multiple knots in regional and global politics, and now the announcement of the number of victims of his invasion of Ukraine by the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reveals the shocking dimensions of this aggression. The raw statistics and data overall indicate the loss of one hundred thousand Russian soldiers, one hundred thousand Ukrainian soldiers, and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians. A bitter reality that Putin has created, and ruthlessly implicated Iran in its creation.