Decision to invade Ukraine raises questions over Putin’s ‘sense of reality’

Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday. The Czech president Miloš Zeman denounced Putin a ‘madman’ after the invasion. Photograph: Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik/Kremlin/EPA

Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday. The Czech president Miloš Zeman denounced Putin a ‘madman’ after the invasion. Photograph: Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik/Kremlin/EPA

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/putin-russian-president-ukraine-invasion-mental-fitness