Vladimir Putin may eventually be forced to step down as Russian leader, Boris Bondarev, a former Russian diplomat who quit over the war, told Newsweek.
, saying that the Russian leader's war goals can now only be achieved by military means, not through peace talks.
"And we have if we look at history, we see that such dictators have been replaced from time to time. So usually, if they lose the war, and they could not satisfy the needs of the supporters, they usually went away," he said. Vlad Mykhnenko, an expert in the post-communist transformation of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union at the University of Oxford laid out three potential scenarios for a Russian defeat.
This scenario could see Putin agreeing to step down gradually"to make space for a new leader, providedMykhnenko said a third scenario could see the war in Ukraine rage on for another two years, with growing discontent in Russia, a slow Russian retreat in some places, and troops holding the frontline in others.
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