Putin Makes Humiliating Request as His War Costs Surge

Vladimir Putin is seeking handouts from Russia’s ultra-wealthy in order to help fund the war in Ukraine, according to reports.

Sources told The Financial Times that Putin wants more money so he can keep fighting until Russia captures the remaining areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that it has not already seized.

Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. / Alexander Ermochenko / Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

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