Putin uses Peter the Great as prop for faltering Russian morale

Russian President Vladimir Putin must contend with faltering morale at home and on the front lines of the war in Ukraine.

“The Russian soldiers are having a terrible, terrible time in the field,” former U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker, a one-time special envoy for the Ukraine crisis, observed to the Washington Examiner. “They’re freezing to death, some of them. They’re poorly organized. The least-trained are getting thrown up to the front lines as cannon fodder. It is absolutely abysmal for the Russian troops.”