{"id":1359410,"date":"2026-02-18T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-believes-in-victory-how-much-longer-is-the-russian-dictator-ready-to-fight-for-donbas\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:47:21","slug":"putin-believes-in-victory-how-much-longer-is-the-russian-dictator-ready-to-fight-for-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putin-believes-in-victory-how-much-longer-is-the-russian-dictator-ready-to-fight-for-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin believes in victory: how much longer is the Russian dictator ready to fight for Donbas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin is convinced that the Russian army is winning the war, so he is ready to continue fighting for Donbas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/trump-witkoff-kushner-diplomacy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is stated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the material of The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to military and Western intelligence officials, Putin believes he has an advantage over Ukrainian troops on the front line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Russian dictator is ready to fight, even if it takes 18 months to 2 years to capture the eastern region of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, in his opinion, the Russian missiles and drones with which they attack Ukrainian energy and the homes of civilians will only give Russia advantages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Zelenskyy previously stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dlia-zakhoplennia-skhodu-ukrainy-rosii-znadobliatsia-dva-roky-i-800-tysiach-vtrat-zelenskyy\/\">Russia would have to spend at least two years and pay the price of about 800,000 dead<\/a> soldiers to occupy eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Let us remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vtraty-rosiian-u-25-raziv-bilshi-nizh-v-ukrainy-brytanskyy-ministr-oborony\/\">in some areas of the contact line, the Russian Federation is losing 25 times more than Ukraine<\/a> , so the occupiers are forced to attract foreign mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin is convinced that the Russian army is winning the war, so he is ready to continue fighting for Donbas. This is stated in the material of The New York Times. According to military and Western intelligence officials, Putin believes he has an advantage over Ukrainian troops on the front line. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":968588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1359410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}