I’ve been hearing that ‘the walls are closing in’ on either Putin or Zelensky since the beginning of the war.
Not that I don’t want the walls to close in on one or the other just to end the carnage of their citizens.
The people of Russia and Ukraine don’t have much input in how they are utilized right now. The only way they can take control is to flee their homeland, hope they don’t get caught, hope their families are not revenge/punished in the style of North Korea.
“I’ve been hearing that ‘the walls are closing in’ on either Putin or Zelensky since the beginning of the war.”
Much propaganda has circled this Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin actually hired folks to spread propaganda on U.S. social websites!
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1. “Russia’s economy is ‘sputtering,’ and Putin’s wartime spending model has pushed the country to an ‘economic, political, and military abyss’”
July 2, 2026
https://fortune.com/2026/07/02/putin-russia-economy-economic-mmilitary-abyss-csis-report/
2.”Russia’s steroid economy is wearing off
Russians live with fuel shortages and rationing as Putin insists the war against Ukraine will go on
By The Associated Press
July 3, 2026, 4:53 AM ET
https://fortune.com/2026/07/03/putin-shrugs-off-fuel-shortages-in-russia-as-he-ramps-up-attacks-on-ukraine/