Putin Faces Humiliating New Reality as War Hits Home

Alexander Kazakov / via REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine has begun to backfire at home as Kyiv’s attacks on oil infrastructure are leading to anger over fuel rationing and concerns about business losses. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky began intensifying drone attacks on Russian oil refineries in mid-June as part of a campaign to raise the war’s stakes for ordinary Russians more than four years after Putin’s full-scale invasion of his country. Thanks to more than a…