Don't take it from me. Take it from Prigozhin:

"The Russians realize the danger themselves, he said, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner private military company, which is doing much of the fighting at Bakhmut, publicly warned of the danger in a video post as he called for more military support for his own forces.

“If Wagner PMC rolls back, then the following situation will happen in history,” he said in early March. “It is clear that the front will crumble. The front will crumble to the Russian borders, or maybe further.”

Or Igor Girkin, quoted in Newsweek:

"Girkin offered a dire assessment for Russian forces in new remarks, accusing Russian state media, which typically toes the Kremlin line, of "polishing" the situation in Ukraine. He also lamented on how the lack of true information about the situation in Ukraine has affected Russia.

"It has an extremely negative effect on the situation in the entire country, in our entire state," Girkin said. "I am not afraid to say that we are moving toward military defeat."

Video of Girkin's remarks was translated and posted to Twitter by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, on Sunday morning.

Girkin continued to call out the Russian military over the lack of progress made during the winter. Combat in recent months have largely focused on the city Bakhmut, where Russian soldiers have fought alongside the Wagner Group, a paramilitary unit, to deliver a largely-symbolic victory to the Russian population.

Russia saw some success in the months-long campaign, which has featured some of the most intense and bloody combat of the war. However, analysts say progress has stalled in recent weeks as the number of recent Russian offenses dropped—the latest sign that Putin's forces continue to struggle.

"Over the winter, we were unable to push the enemy back even 10 km from Donetsk and not even because we left Kherson. We rolled back from Kharkiv region. We rolled back from near Kyiv," Girkin said.

Girkin pointed to the Russian economy and military being "totally unprepared" for the "long, protracted war." He has also criticized Russian authorities for legally classifying the invasion as a "special military operation," rather than a war, which he says limits soldiers' capacity in Ukraine.

Rajan Menon, director of the Grand Strategy program at Defense Priorities, told Newsweek Sunday that Girkin is part of an "increasing" group of right-wing nationalists who are dissatisfied with the war."

Russia needs no Ukrainian surrender hotline, as Ukraine does for surrendering Russians:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-07/la-fg-ukraine-russia-surrender-hotline

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