In an interview with the New York Times, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently said that the Russian presidential election “is not real democracy, but costly bureaucracy.”
– Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90 percent of the vote, he said to the newspaper.
In retrospect, Peskov has claimed he was misquoted, but the statement has fueled speculation that the election may not go ahead as planned.
The counteroffensive is slow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recently admitted that the country’s counter-offensive is going slower than many wanted. A major challenge has been to break through Russia’s defense lines, which are heavily protected and mined.
In the video, SVT’s foreign reporter Carl Fridh Kleberg lists three things to keep an eye on in the war.