Putin Just Bombed Kyiv for 11 Straight Hours — and a Leading Scholar Says It’s the Flailing of a Man Who Knows He Can’t Win

Putin's forces bombed Kyiv for 11 straight hours, killing at least 20 civilians. In this searing analysis, Rutgers professor Alexander Motyl argues the barrage is desperation, not strength: Russia's economy is buckling, more soldiers are dying than can be recruited, officials privately blame "the dwarf" in the Kremlin, and coup talk is no longer fantasy. His conclusion is stark — like Hitler, Putin will accept only "the peace of the graveyard," and will stop only when Russia is defeated on the battlefield.