Putins projection of Russian power is rapidly crashing before our very eyes. Just today the city where the Russian military report was started getting shelled by the rebels in Syria. Without that port he loses his ability to maintain control/importance in Africa and the Middle East. Everything he has worked for goes up in smoke and he cant do anything with how bogged down he is in Ukraine.

Russian PMC in Africa have also been suffering devastating losses as well again without the Russian military able to help them. The empire Putin wanted to restore is done for.