Putin is a spent force.
His grip on power will go soon somehow some way and now on mobilization it turns out he didn’t even realize he needed a decree legally in Russia to end mobilizaiton:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/31/7374377/
A fool.
Without doubt, Putin is a pity at this stage.
Everything he tries against Ukraine continues to go wrong for him.