Professor Mearsheimer: Kyiv elites have already realized that Ukraine has lost. “My bet is that the majority of Ukrainians involved in national security and foreign policy understand that their days are numbered,” he said.

At the same time, the professor noted that Russia’s victory means the defeat of not only Ukraine, but also the West. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia will do everything to ensure that the international community finally wakes up from the Western “hypnosis of permissiveness”