When Putin understood his defeat/Channel 24 Collage
The whole civilized world realized that Russia had already lost this war against Ukraine. However, there was a moment when the Kremlin dictator Putin himself realized that he was doomed.
A huge blow for Putin
About Andrey Piontkovsky, a Russian publicist from Washington, said this. He expressed his opinion during an exclusive stream on YouTube channel 24.
According to him, the key date in the Russian-Ukrainian war was June 16 – the arrival of three “capitulators” in Kyiv. They are talking about French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
In addition, as the publicist emphasized, there was one more main event: the defeat of the Russians near Kyiv .
After that, it became clear to both Putin and Russian generals that they would not be able to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. They made their main bet on the so-called “peace party” with its desire to “save Putin's face” and attempts to persuade Ukraine to make territorial concessions, Piontkovsky said.
However, their “mission” completely failed. They faced a powerful rejection of this plan. We are talking about both Ukrainian society and the authorities.
Help. After a visit to Kyiv, Macron, Scholz and Draghi supported the status of a candidate for accession for Ukraine and promised not to put pressure on the issue of peace.
“It was a huge blow for Putin,” Piontkovsky stressed.
I realized for the first time that I was doomed
So the defeat of Russia is already an irreversible process. This was understood even in Moscow, the publicist added.
“They, of course, are celebrating the 'capture' of Severodonetsk, Tarasovka, Mamontovka with salutes, but the strategic trend has finally taken shape. This is noticeable with every step,” he believes.< /p>
And he thinks that the head of the aggressor country realized for the first time that he was doomed, when none of his three ways of “victory” that Putin had hoped for worked. We are talking about such “cards” that the Kremlin dictator wanted to play:
- the first of them was “blitzkrieg”;
- the second one was < strong>use his agents of influence represented by 3 leaders of powerful European states to force Ukraine into a humiliating agreement that will destroy its statehood;
- the last one is the 3rd way Putin wanted to win “victory” is nuclear blackmail.
