Andriy Piontkovsky, a political scientist based in Washington, noted that for the first time in 23 years in the Kremlin, the head of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, suffered "two very heavy hardware defeats."

The analyst told about this on the Espresso broadcast.

"Putin in St. Petersburg had the same appearance of a morel under a blanket, as during the May parade on Red Square. He was then in shock after the first major defeat of the Russian army and the "gesture of goodwill" when they were thrown out of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy. He could not have looked otherwise," said Piontkovsky.

According to the political scientist, for the first time in his 23 years in power, Putin suffered two very heavy hardware defeats.

"The first is on the night of January 10-11, when Shoigu and Gerasimov came to him and demanded to immediately release Surovikin in order to return Gerasimov to his post, and Putin complied," the analyst expressed his opinion.

According to Piontkovsky, Putin's second mistake was conniving with Prigozhin.

"When Prigozhin came to Putin two days later with the opposite demand, to stop the "program of discrediting" by the General Staff of Wagner's "heroic fighters" and issue an official statement about their "feats". After such two defeats, he is no longer the same person, he is no longer is perceived by the apparatus as a Führer. In the criminal world, and now we see in the Russian political and military elite a criminal community in particular, a lowered plow is no longer a plow. And here a plow is lowered twice in a week. What's more, Prigozhin was only insolent at this and deployed an attack not only on the military command, on the p***ers in the General Staff, but also on the traitors in the presidential administration," the analyst said.

Note that the Kremlin is preparing Russia for a long-term war in Ukraine.

Analysts believe that the dictator's entourage understands that "Putin's end is determined."

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