Introduction

Sergey Karragannov has been one of Russia's most influential foreign policy analysts and strategists for more than four decades. He became a key adviser to Boris Yeltsin and maintained an inside track to the Kremlin when the Putin era began at the beginning of this century. His ideas have had a role to play in the conflict now seen in Ukraine. After almost a year of war in Ukraine is Russia ready to acknowledge that it's going badly wrong?