Pekka Haavisto told Newsweek the Russian dictator is playing a 'survival game' amid battlefield defeats and diplomatic escalation.
The unrest was the most significant since the early days of the war. Internal dissent, Haavisto said, could shape the war's end game.
"Russia can change," he said."I am very carefully looking at the different opposition voices...there are people who are brave and express themselves publicly," the foreign minister added, noting the work of jailed campaignerRussian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a ceremony marking the annexation of four Ukrainian regions at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on September 30, 2022 in Moscow, Russia.
Putin and his inner circle, meanwhile, are engaged in a"survival game," Haavisto said."Putin has all his cards on the table at the moment." "It's obvious that Russia always changes, as we have seen in the last 100 years. It always comes to a breaking moment, and there's something new appearing. The tragedy, of course, is that we don't know whether it goes better, or worse, or more of the same."
"We are a neighbor, and we have to be prepared for all kinds of changes. But the change is usually not smooth."
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