Understanding the delirium of Vladimir Putin's Russia

Vladimir Putin and the people surrounding him wanted the 3 days Ukraine full invasion and the war they started will go in the third year in a few months, a war not easy at all for Russia: there were some Uktaine's reactions and they keep continuing attacks with missles and drones. Vladimir Putin has threatened the Europe and the world (at least NATO and the countries helping Ukraine with weapons, people, money and other resources) with the nuclear weapons he controls but, at least for now, he hasn't used them.

The darkness of Vladimir Putin's depravity is something hard for Westerners to understand, argues famed journalist David Satter in this exclusive interview with Kyiv Post's Jason Smart, however if the people from Ukraine wish to defeat the Kremlin, we must understand its origins.

According to his author's bio on Amazon, David Satter is one of the world’s leading commentators on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of four books on Russia and the creator of a documentary film on the fall of the U.S.S.R. In May, 2013, he became an adviser to the Russian Service of Radio Liberty and in September, 2013, he was accredited as a Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow.

On the other hand, Russian opposition activist told Deutsche Welle: ‘The Putin regime will fall’  and this is for the moment a great idea or a great dream - only time will tell if he is right or not. There’s plenty of evidence that questioning the government in Russia is more dangerous than it’s been in living memory.

On Conflict Zone Deutsche Welle’s Tim Sebastian talks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, an exiled Russian opposition activist, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail for criticizing the war in Ukraine. Kara-Murza was released from the Russian prison in the year 2024 in the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. Kara-Murza, a Russian-British national, decries a ‘sad history of appeasement of Vladimir Putin by Western leaders’. But he is convinced that one day Russia will become a modern, free European country, and from my point of view that can happen either tomorrow if Vladimir Putin drinks some poisoned tea or if he falls through the window from the most upper level in Kremlin or in a century.

Meantime, deserter reveals secrets of top-secret Russian nuclear base accordingly to BBC News. A former officer at a top-secret Russian nuclear weapons facility has revealed the secrets of life at the base after deserting from Russia. Anton, not his real name, said the nuclear weapons base he was serving at was put on full combat alert on the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He also rejected the view that Russia’s nuclear weapons mostly date from the Soviet era and might not work; saying they are fully operational and battle-ready. I hopw we'll never find out how good or not they function after they are fired.

The BBC is unable to independently verify all the events he described, although they do correspond with Russian statements at the time.