How long will Putin survive?

Ukrainian emergency workers practice decontaminating a man from radiation during training on radiation exposure in Zaporizhzhia (AAP).

Ukrainian emergency workers wearing radiation protection suits disinfect a man from radiation during training on radiation exposure in Zaporizhzhia (AAP). Credit: SOPA Images/Sipa USA

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C-I-A Director William Burns says Russia's war in Ukraine is a strategic failure, that has exposed military weaknesses and damaged the economy. The armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Lt.Gen. (Ret.) Bambang Darmono last served  as Head of the Papua and West Papua Development Acceleration Unit. To SBS Indonesian Program he says that he believes that there will definitely be implications from the Wagner group's rebellion for the conditions in the Kremlin itself. To what extend?  The general explaines.

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