Goris, Armenia

‘Where we deploy our own troops within our own borders is nobody’s business but our own,’ Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said a few months ago, as tens of thousands of Russian soldier gathered close to the border with Ukraine. ‘They pose no threat to anybody.’

Now, with Russia’s brutal invasion of the neighbouring country stretching into its fifth week, president Vladimir Putin’s credibility is dead, along with his reputation as a master strategist and countless young men he sent in to wage what was supposed to be a swift war.