I figure it’s Putin clowning Trump some more, but also Putin is massively embarrassed that his two recent “successes” were fake and Ukraine is taking/has taken those cities back (Kupyanks and Pokrovsk). There are Russian forces surrounded in and around Kupyansk as well and they aren’t going to be rescued. And Putin was lied to by his generals as well as Ukrainian intelligence fooling Russian commanders There is also the bigger problem for Putin that Russia is not able to match the losses in Ukraine with replacement forces. That happened within the last week or so. Sending fewer troops to the front than you’re losing is not sustainable, and Kupyansk and Pokrovsk are being used to chew up Russian forces and vehicles at a crazy rate. So Kyiv is going to get hammered a lot more going forward probably.
Darth Putin tweeting some oldies but goodies out To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten, comrade @MattWallace888 tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which have been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action. We started this war with 13 Ropucha class ships. We have 5 left. 3 years ago: