Ukraine war: Putin’s Reckoning Is Now “President Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is taking on water. Like the Titanic, it has struck an immovable object — in this case Ukraine — and it is sinking fast,” cheer Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth at The Hill . Volodymyr Zelensky’s war strategy is clear: “When Russia grows tired, change comes.” Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko has “ruled out sending troops to fight in Ukraine,” admitting that Belarus, too, is “very vulnerable militarily” to Ukrainian