Russia expert: ‘Putin looks slower, more hesitant. I see an old man’ | Abroad

AnalysisIt was a disaster week for Vladimir Putin. The performance during last week’s crisis causes astonishment. Why did the Russian president do nothing while Yevgeny Prigozhin was advancing towards Moscow with his Wagner group? “The energy has been missing for a while,” says Russia expert Hans van Koningsbrugge. “The man is getting old.” And so the question is how strong his position still is.