Prof. Leguck of PISM: Russia's offensive just before the election. Putin wants territory

‘In fact, it is no longer a limited-nature “Special Military Operation” but a war, as Putin explained, affecting the safety of the Russian Federation, which is why society must offer its sacrifice. Putin uses the war against Ukraine to redesign the strategy to strengthen his power. War failure was a burden for the authorities in the first phase of the war, but the last year on the Putin front could turn into a victory," says Agnieszka Legucka, Russian analyst at the Polish Institute of global Affairs (PISM), prof. of the Academy of Finance and Business Vistula.