Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was hailed in Washington as a fighter for democracy. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised in Moscow that the war would be continued by any means necessary. Doesn't Putin realize that this path leads to a dead end? Putin doesn't know what to do. He has a mantra: the goals are achieved. But what goals? And when? Of all the goals he had set out at the beginning of the war, he achieved the opposite. He strengthened the national identity of the Ukrainians and promoted the rearmament of the neighbor. Putin has no strategy. Will he continue the missile attacks or rather intensify the ground war? Nobody knows.

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