Putin is desperate, but not stupid | Lord McDonald

"The war has gone as bad as possible for Putin. He now finds himself having to explain himself to his hardliners, to his army, to his people - all of them are unhappy."
Putin is ‘desperate, not stupid’, former head of the foreign office Lord McDonald tells #TimesRadio.
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