In the evil Putin war in Ukraine his latest move to mobilize more people in Ukraine has instantly gone wrong for Putin.
The Ukraine President detailing the devastating, brutal response they have been met with over the last couple of days:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-offensive-donetsk-oblast-down-205000093.html
Effectively Putin is just using his own Russian people as cannon fodder at this point.
He could care less about them.
As long as his alternative to the SWIFT system fails with China, which it is currently, he gets nothing.