Putin dropping confidence in Ukraine conflict, former Russian PM says

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Putin dropping confidence in Ukraine conflict, former Russian PM says

Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov stated that Vladimir Putin’s confidence within the conflict in Ukraine has been shaken.

In an interview with DW on Friday from an undisclosed location in Europe, he stated the Russian president could have been misled by his generals concerning the state of the conflict.

Kasyanov served as Putin’s first prime minister from 2000 to 2004 earlier than being sacked, and occurring to kind an opposition occasion and run for president in 2008. He turned a vocal opponent, and now lives in exile.

He informed DW that Putin was not talking from a place of power and even appeared “a little bit nervous” throughout a army parade speech he gave to commemorate “Victory Day,” the tip of World War II on May 9.

In the speech, Putin doubled down on the conflict, falsely claiming that Ukraine may have nuclear weapons and that the nation is being led by neo-Nazis. The Russian president stated the invasion was the “only right decision,” claiming that the West was planning to invade Russia.

“The response of Mr. Putin and his speech was completely weak,” Kasyanov said, adding that Putin was “already began to comprehend that he is dropping this conflict.”

Putin ‘misled’ by inside circle

Kasyanov supported the idea many analysts maintain about how Putin’s inside circle has withheld data or not offered him a full image of the state of the conflict, for worry of delivering unhealthy information.

“I’m sure he was misled,” Kasyanov stated, including that Putin “believed that his army [was] in a great shape” and that the invasion would take little or no time.

It all comes weeks after Russia retreated from Kyiv and refocused its power within the japanese a part of the nation.

With Russia experiencing a number of defeats on the battlefield, Kasyanov warned that Putin may look to push the battle into a brand new part.

“Now we’re coming to another stage — this competition of rivalry, of economic potentials, military potentials,” he stated, noting that the choice by western nations to ship heavy weapons to Ukraine will give Kyiv “a decisive advantage” going ahead.

Kasyanov knew a ‘completely different’ Putin

Having labored along with Putin, Kasyanov stated the Russian chief had undergone a drastic change. “I labored with him 20 years in the past. It was utterly a special particular person. It was a totally completely different state of affairs at the moment,” he stated.

“We had parliament, impartial parliament — we had impartial media, we had a judiciary. Today is totally completely different world,” he said. “Mr. Putin destroyed all options of democratic state and now simply we’ve [an] completely authoritarian regime and progressively transferring to a totalitarian one.”

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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