Well, there is a reason a trainer is just that and a fighter takes instructions.
In reality, Putin is under the pump from the right of his politics who are getting increasingly frustrated by the very controlled response from his military. A full-scale launch of violence like the Gaza tactic defeats the objectives and with very few benefits. Putin has no interest in controlling the hostile part of Ukraine, only the traditional historical Russian lands that are meeting the objectives as his army is slowly moving eastwards to the Donbas border.
Just today from Twitter "news", yet another oil installation was bombed by Ukie drones so they are still capable of inflicting damage. The opinion about Kursk seems to suggest a distraction tactic to draw the successful campaign moving eastwards to divert to Kursk but those Chechen Akhmat SF are not to be scoffed at. Oh, Chechens are Muslims, patriotic to Mother Russia, unlike the racial issues within the entire Nato members.
