'He sees enemies everywhere, and his condition is not improving,' Mark Feygin, a former deputy in the State Duma, told Newsweek.
"doesn't control" the progress of his disastrous war in Ukraine, according to a former member of the Russian parliament now opposing the Kremlin from abroad as a prominent human rights lawyer.
"He sees enemies everywhere, and his condition is not improving. He sees that it's a definite threat to his political future." Russia's wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine in 2014 did not threaten Putin's position in the same way as this year's invasion—now approaching its eighth month—has, Feygin said.
Feygin—who since February has gained a large YouTube following thanks to daily video discussions with Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych—said the dictator bought into the expectation that Russia's armed forces would overwhelm the Ukrainian defenders in short order.
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