Claims by Russian propaganda and Russian officials that Russia is allegedly “close to victory” in the war against Ukraine actually indicate the opposite and are an attempt to conceal the aggressor country’s growing internal problems.
Czech expert Pavel Havlíček, a research fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO) in Prague, made this statement in a comment to Ukrinform.
According to him, there is a clear trend in Russia toward declining support for continuing the war and for the regime itself, which is “significantly exacerbated by the successful, deep strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on Russian territory.”
“When they talk about an ‘imminent victory,’ it means the opposite. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to hide the problems,” the expert said.
In this context, the expert believes, the Kremlin exploited the visit of U.S. Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow for its own propaganda purposes.
