^^ Better or worse are relative terms. Putin is emotionally and politically invested in this war. He may not physically survive anything that looks other than a clear victory in terms of territory (Ruzzia has already lost the war in any other aspect).
It's interesting that if you replace Putin with Zelensky in your speech, it will even make more sense.
oh... well the thing about dictatorships is that usually there is only one way of changing the government (not always, but mostly) which is removing physically the government. Ukraine can possibly change the government without having to decapitate anyone - although there are not elections in war period, there will eventually be.
But I do not think you really disagree with what I said about Putin.