While Russia's president annexes large areas of Ukraine, the truth on the ground looks very different.
For the past month Ukrainian forces have pushed Russia's military back and recaptured large chunks of occupied territory"The truth is on our side and truth is strength!" Vladimir Putin boomed into a microphone on Red Square last week, after a grand ceremony at which he proclaimed four large chunks of Ukrainian territory to be part of Russia.
Like many, the political analyst believes that Mr Putin was caught completely off-guard by strong Western support for Kyiv, as well as Ukraine's own fierce resistance to occupation. The president's latest address, delivered beneath the gilded Kremlin chandeliers, re-stated his vision of a new world order.The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible: things will never be the same. The battlefield to which destiny and history have called us is a battlefield for our peopleIt involves a mighty Russia, a cowed Western world that has been forced to learn respect and Kyiv subjugated once again to Moscow.
Regional politicians are falling over themselves in a Soviet-style race to overfulfill their quotas, calling up as many men as possible. Some of their posts - and videos by the men themselves - reveal grim conditions: poor food, old weapons and a lack of basic medical supplies. The women discuss sending sanitary towels to pad the men's boots and tampons to pack their wounds.
MP Andrei Kartapolov was the latest this week to urge the defence ministry to "stop lying" about Russian difficulties, because "our people are far from stupid".As many Russians have fled over the border with Kazakhstan as have been drafted into the army in the past two weeks
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