Sooner or later Prigozhin and Shoigu will devour each other

He said this Espreso TV channel.

"Prigozhin is no longer just Putin's cook, he is already a rather large political unit. Prigozhin is actually running a personal army. The fact that the struggle for leverage in Kremlin has been going on for a long time, which is now entering a new phase, is evidence that Shoigu has also started to create their own separate army. Sooner or later, these poisonous spiders will eat each other, and one of the towers will die. Because it cannot be that there is no one to blame for losing the war," Chernyk explained.

According to him, the war against Ukraine has already been lost for Russians.

"The only question is when war will logically end. In Russian Federation, a change of power from below, some kind of civil putsch, is impossible. If a putsch is possible, then only under the strict control of one of the towers. I have no doubts that there will definitely be a mutiny in Russia. The only question is which tower will do it first. But Putin still keeps a balance between towers," Chernyk added.

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner private military company, justifies his inability to capture Bakhmut by the fact that there are "500 lines of defense" in the city, every 10 meters, in every house, they are forced to overcome resistance.

• Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War believe that Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of Wagner's private military company, is trying to shift responsibility for failures in Bakhmut to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

• Oleksandr Musienko, director of the Center for Military and Legal Research, noted that more Russian reinforcements are now arriving in Kreminna region than near Bakhmut.