🤡 Putin is trying to impose on the world a sense of inevitability of Ukraine's defeat, — FT
📍Putin is actively promoting a narrative of an allegedly close victory in the war, claiming that Russia has overcome sanctions and seized the strategic initiative at the front.
📍The Kremlin is betting on creating a sense of "historical doom" of democracies in a global confrontation with the West.
📍Moscow is broadcasting a story where the war has gone far beyond the borders of Ukraine.