"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...

"Putin needs to demonstrate that he is not that weak as he looks now." Putin ‘wants the image of an anti-western bloc leader’, but will need to show that he is not weak, former Russian parliament adviser Nikolai Petrov tells #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...