Not long ago the Ukrainian President Zelensky made maybe a sharp remark on Putin:
‘It is difficult to know who or what Putin actually is at this point’.
Now, approaching the 1-year anniversary of Putin’s war, Russian soldiers even say similar:
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-omsk-troops-commander-putin-1782406
‘We do not know who our Commander is.’
The rise and fall of Putin’s Russian empire is in full flow in 2023.
As his grip on powers goes further as the days tick by.