Kiev’s forces are dwindling despite supplies of Western weapons, Sergey Shoigu has reported Kiev’s attempts to advance on the front line remain fruitless and are resulting in high battlefield losses and decreasing morale among Ukrainian troops, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.

The crackdown takes place a week after the failed rebellion of the private military company Russia has blocked access to several news websites linked to businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, whose private military company, Wagner Group, was involved in a short-lived mutiny last week.

Since the late 1990s, multipolarity has been a key focus in Russia’s foreign policy doctrine. A more balanced world has been seen as a counterweight to the global hegemony of the US and its allies. Thus, modern international relations were considered to be effectively in transition from unipolarity, with Washington losing its grip on dominance, to…