Leonid Volkov, a Russian opposition leader and chief of staff to the imprisoned Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, says support for Vladimir Putin inside Russia is crumbling. Volkov tells The World’s Marco Werman that Putin is unlikely to retain sufficient support within Russia to continue his military campaign in Ukraine in the months ahead.
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