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The West has many unsettled score with Putin.
This time Putin himself invited all his own trouble.

He is slowly backed into a corner

“He!. Putin is not good at resolving crises,” Boris Bondarev, a former Russian diplomat who resigned two years ago in protest over the war in Ukraine, and is still living outside Russia, told CNN. “It’s risky, it’s not predictable. Putin likes comfort, he likes it when he is making the crisis for others, when he controls the situation.”


Shock offensive left Kremlin reeling. Experts say Russia’s military response in Kursk has somewhat mirrored the fumbling reactions of its president Putin himself.

“The initial response when they got over the shock of what was happening would have been who have we got in the cupboard left to defend,” retired Aus Major General Mick Ryan, author of a new book “The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire,” told CNN. “Whether it’s conscripts, whether it’s understrength battalions from Ukrainian theater, or strategic reserves.”
Battlefield accounts have backed up the sense that a motley selection of Russian troops were rushed in. Moscow grappled with dilemma of how to balance defending its own soil. The slow momentum on eastern front. Ukrainian said troops were redeployed from Kharkiv region southern front. As Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed early his special forces, Akhmat brigade, had been deployed. News from the front.