Pjotr Sauer

Yeah, we've seen more and more drone attacks.

We've seen drone attacks last week in St.

Petersburg during Putin's famous SPIF, which is the Economic Forum, also dubbed the Russian Davos.

Guests walked into the conference hall as smoke rose above St.

Petersburg.

Obviously, these are symbolic attacks by Ukraine.

So the drones are penetrating most cities far, far away from Ukraine.

But at the same time, Putin has claimed on a number of occasions, including, I think, at this Victory Day parade, that the war is coming to a close.

And if so, why?

Yeah, that phrase made headlines around the world.

Yeah.

But I think many misinterpreted what Putin was saying.

Okay.

Later on, he also tried to explain what he meant.

And in his worldview, the war might be coming to an end, but not because he's willing to sit down and talk it out with Zelensky, but because he believes he's winning.

And I think that's a crucial thing that, you know,

listeners understand is in Vladimir Putin's mind, the war is going well.

Right, with half a million Russian dead soldiers.

you know, with drones flying into Russian cities every day.

You know, he believes that, and this is what I hear from people around him, he still believes that even though things are hard in Russia, things are harder in Ukraine.