"Putin is unmoored from reality." The Russian President's isolation isn't helping his judgement, but it's unlikely his successor would be any different, says Robert Service, Emeritus Professor of Russian history at St. Anthony's College, Oxford and a bio...

"I do not think that the regime will survive. The Russians are going to suffer a lot. And at the end, he will not survive this."After Putin announces a mobilization, Russia expert Samantha de Badern says Putin’s regime ‘will not survive’ on #TimesRadio.

"Putin cannot afford to lose this otherwise the danger is he will lose power. And there are people around him who are harder on the aggressive end of the spectrum than he is." If Putin loses the Russia Ukraine war, replacements are likely to be more ‘aggr...