‘It is a crisis’: Putin under increasing pressure from Ukraine war

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Russian President Vladimir Putin faces increasing domestic criticism amidst the prolonged Ukraine war. Challenges such as fuel shortages, inflation, energy infrastructure attacks, and military casualties are intensifying political pressure on his administration.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country.  Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, and mounting military casualties are prompting prominent figures to start pinning the blame…