Russia’s Three-Front War: in Ukraine, at Home, and Against the West

While focusing on Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine, the West must not neglect support of Putin’s opponents, both in Russia and elsewhere.

Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian regime has conducted a war on three fronts. In addition to the hot war on Ukrainian soil, Vladimir Putin has engaged in a war against Russian civil society, closing all remaining independent media and drastically tightening repression. Russia has also intensified its hybrid war against the West, spreading disinformation, supporting anti-Ukrainian politicians, and interfering in the elections of democratic countries. The goal of these efforts in Western capitals is to undermine the unity of the West and weaken the West’s resolve to support Ukraine and to sanction Russia.