Nowhere in the first article did Hamas "admit to using human shields". Hamas gave Gazans orders to not evacuate like how Israel ordered. Why, you may ask. It's because Israel targeted evacuating civilians with bombings. The less you're seen and exposed, the safer you are, because IDF will want to kill you regardless of your civilian status.
Besides, Hamas never strapped a child to a truck and drove around using a literal human shield.
Putin can't stop the oligarchs and the military because they control all the wealth and power of Russia. They can kill Putin just like they killed Prigozhin or Navalny.
His abrupt collapse of the USSR led to shortage of food. Mix that with an economically incompetent successor (Yeltsin), and you've got lots of hunger. USSR gave up on communism 15 years before it collapsed. And the Glasnost and Perestroika made it pretty much as "free" as most countries at the time.
But Gorby wanted to end USSR because it was a symbol of evil. Doing so left every former Republic in an economic crisis.
