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Political scientist Piontkovsky names key condition for Putin's regime to fall

31 August, 2024 Saturday
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Political scientist Andrey Piontkovsky believes that the destruction of the Crimean bridge will start the inevitable processes of power struggle in Russia

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He expressed this opinion on Espreso TV.

“Party Z of the war, which now dominates the information space of the Russian Federation, has three groups that hate each other. Each blames the other for the failures of the war. These are the army, Putin and his FSB resource, and the so-called Prigozhin people's movement. One more humiliating push by Putin, in my opinion, would have disrupted this mixture. I am sure that the Ukrainian military command is preparing for this. I mean the destruction of the Crimean bridge. As far as I understand it, this situation in Moscow, this conflict between the three groups and the destruction of the Crimean bridge, will finally convince them that the tsar is not real,” Piontkovsky explained.

According to the political scientist, Putin is trying to maintain his place in power.

“Their criticism is no longer about denying new methods of warfare, but about accusing them of losing the war. The war has already been lost. The war that Putin declared on February 24, Kyiv a week later, and then for NATO to retreat deep into Europe, this war is already lost forever. Putin's group has already retreated. He is fighting for power. He is trying to maintain power in a country that has lost the war. To do this, he needs to name other culprits. Now he is naming generals,” he added.

  • On August 29, the Institute for the Study of War reported that the pace of Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation had slowed. The defense forces are trying to dig in and hold certain areas they recently captured.
  • On August 30, DeepState reported that Russian terrorist forces managed to recapture the village of Korenovo, Kursk region.
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