Putin’s Ukraine Failure Could Speed Russia’s Breakup, Historian Says

British-Polish historian Norman Davies stated that Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reconstruct the Russian Empire have failed, exposing military weaknesses and reducing Moscow to a vassal state dependent on Beijing. Regarding bilateral tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv, Davies validated Poland’s historical grievances over the World War II-era Volhynia massacres but emphasized that a war for survival is not the appropriate moment to press historical disputes.