I suppose it comes with the territory, being the leader of a country, you are always in danger of starting to believe your own hype. A bit like anyone that is a leader in their field.
The following might not make sense in type, however I know what I mean in my head! On one level, world leaders can of course be thought of as extremely powerful. And indeed they are, in as far as they're the leader. However on another level, a moral level I suppose you could say, I view leaders like Putin as weak, deluded, pathetic individuals. So wrapped up in delivering their own version of society that individual life, pain and suffering carries absolutely no weight with them.
So keen are Ukrainians to be freed from their current society they're fleeing Ukraine ... in the opposite direction to Russia. However it's of no relevance to people like Putin, they'll spin it whatever way suits in their own head.
It's sad to think world leaders collectively have within their power the ability to work towards a genuinely peaceful world, however I'm not daft, I know that objective is never 'on their radar', regardless of whatever they spout. Oh and I include western leaders in that.