Owen Matthews looks at the signs of war exhaustion in Russia and Ukraine and wonders if domestic turmoil could determine the outcome before attrition on the battlefield does. One the one hand:

In Russia, there was a rare example of the Kremlin responding to criticism earlier this month when influencer Viktoria Bonya posted an Instagram video addressing Vladimir Putin. “The people are afraid of you, artists are afraid, governors are afraid,” she said. “There is a big wall between you and the people.” It’s been watched more than 24 million times. Bonya is the former star of Russian Big Brother, famous mostly for being famous, and she lives in Monaco with the son of an Irish billionaire. Yet Putin spokesman Dimtri Peskov said her video touched on “very........

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