Putin Got Trapped: Expert about the Change of Russia’s Strategy in the War  

Russian President Vladimir Putin has switched to the defense strategy in the war agaisnt Ukraine due to the inability to achieve the declared goals of the so-called "special military operation", as military expert Petro Chernyk said in his exclusive interview for TSN.ua, commenting on Putin's statement about his unwillingness to "spin the flywheel of the military conflict".

According to the expert, there are two key points in the statement of the President of the Russian Federation can be distinguished two main points.

"The first point is the signal that Putin gives indicating that they are moving from an offensive strategy to a defensive one. They have failed to achieve strategic goal of eliminating the Ukrainian statehood, so now they have realized that they have fallen into a trap, and they do not know how to get out of this trap. This signal that they allegedly don't want to continue the war is a signal not to us, but to the collective West We ask it to find some common ground in order to bring the Russians and Ukrainians to the negotiating table and find a way out of this situation. This is unacceptable for us," Chernyk explained.

According to him, the very fact that “Putin’s rhetoric has changed in such a way is a sign of their strategic weakness."

"The second point is that they are trapped. This is a fact. Now we ask the question - how do they get out? Frankly, I myself can't figure out what they need to do to get to that point of negotiation. They are well aware that if there is a classic defeat in Ukraine, and it will happen, since it is only a matter of time and circumstances, Putin will most likely lose his life, and Russia will be on the road to disintegration," the expert said.

According to Chernyk, the Russians "have only one logical argument - to drag out this war as long as possible in the expectation that Ukrainians will be exhausted, and there will be some negotiations”.

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