Strains of Putin’s War May Be Starting to Show

Two events briefly parted the curtain yesterday on Kremlin tensions over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They raise the question of whether cracks may start to emerge in the Russian leadership after a month of war that was intended to last only a few days.

Anatoly Chubais, a longtime political heavyweight, resigned as Putin’s climate envoy, the highest-level departure so far over the war. Then it emerged Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina had tried to quit after the invasion started, but Putin refused to allow it.