Tuesday’s drone attack on Moscow could be the “beginning of a turning point” that could lead to the end of Vladimir Putin’s power as Russia’s leader, an international business analyst said.

Speaking to Sky News, Michael Botsyurkiv, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said Tuesday’s attack was an “extraordinary overreach of Russian defenses”.

Botsyurkiv said he would “go so far as to say” that “this could be the beginning of a turning point that could lead to the end of President Putin.”

Putin is losing control / We will see such attacks again

“When you combine that with the incursions into Belgorod in the last few days, a few other things that are going on, it looks like he’s losing control on his own territory,” the analyst said.

Botsyurkiv said that we will “undoubtedly” see more attacks like the one in Moscow in the future.

“It’s hard to believe that this is happening … I cannot overstate the threat and the enormous impact this has on the regime in Moscow,” he said.

Kremlin control is still strong

Of course, all this does not mean that tomorrow Vladimir Putin will be overthrown from power. He maintains strong control over the population and the elites who serve him.

But the more militant his statements become, the more they show that he is becoming increasingly vulnerable.

By mobilizing the population to fight in Ukraine, he violated the agreement made with the Russians, who would not comment on his decisions as long as they were allowed to live in peace as long as they did not cause problems.

And with his attempts to shift the full responsibility for his failures to his subordinates, he first created a reason for the elites to unite against him.

Add in the increasingly unstable state of the economy, the effect of increasing sanctions, internal subversions that destroy the myth of public security, and the imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive, and we have all the ingredients for an anti-Putin. movement.

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“The defeat of Russia is necessary for the end of Putin.”

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“Step by step, we are doing everything possible and everywhere so that Russian revanchism loses in every element of its aggression against Ukraine and the freedom of peoples in general. Russia must lose on the battlefield, in the economy, in international relations and in attempts to replace historical truth with some imperial myths. The Kremlin is losing in its efforts to spiritually enslave our people. A large-scale defeat of Russia will be a reliable guarantee against new aggressions and crises,” Zelenskyi said in March.

At the conference, held at the spectacular Wilton Park, some of the world’s leading military thinkers discussed the consequences of the war in Ukraine and how the West can cope with the future challenges it is likely to face from authoritarian powers such as Russia and China. .

And while opinions differed on how best to achieve that goal, including improving NATO’s ability to meet such challenges, there was general consensus that ensuring a humiliating defeat for Putin’s Russia would be a good starting point, Con Coughlin wrote in The Telegraph.

Fortunately, this prospect has come much closer to us after the stunning successes of Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.

In the east, the Ukrainians increased their considerable territory, already conquered in Donetsk, expanding the offensive to Luhansk.

If the Ukrainian army can maintain this momentum, Putin’s claims of control over the two regions that make up Donbas will soon be exposed as lies.

A similar situation exists in the south, where Ukrainians reported serious progress around the strategic city of Kherson, which is considered the gateway to Crimea.

From here, it is tempting, but difficult to imagine the prospect that soon the Ukrainians will be able to recapture Crimea itself, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is located, which will truly become a dagger to Putin’s heart.

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