A Fateful Summer for Putin and Zelenskiy

A Ukrainian flag flutters over a public building in the city of Bucha, Ukraine.

Photographer: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskiy face a potentially decisive summer that may shape the resolution of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Putin unexpectedly finds himself having to worry about his domestic security as tensions within the Russian military over the course of the war have erupted into the open since last month’s mutiny by Wagner mercenaries.