The Kremlin says that President Putin will not be holding his annual marathon news conference. Observers say the break in the long-held tradition reflects Moscow's uneasiness about several Russian battlefield setbacks in Ukraine.
“Although questions are almost certainly usually vetted in advance, the cancellation is likely due to increasing concerns about the prevalence of anti-war feeling in Russia,” it said. “Kremlin officials are almost certainly extremely sensitive about the possibility that any event attended by Putin could be hijacked by unsanctioned discussion about the ‘special military operation.’”
Putin and his officials hoped to rout the Ukrainian military in a few days, but a fierce Ukrainian resistance quickly derailed those plans. After a botched attempt to quickly capture the Ukrainian capital, the Russian troops pulled back from areas around Kyiv in March.In September, Ukraine won back large swaths of land in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and last month it reclaimed control of the strategic southern port city of Kherson.
In a rare acknowledgement last week that the campaign in Ukraine is taking longer than he anticipated, Putin admitted that wrapping up his “special military operation” could be a “lengthy process.” At the same time, he continued to claim that the campaign was going according to plan and will achieve its goals.
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