"Stop Nurturing Illusions": General Gurulev Said About The Deadlock Of The Russian Army

• 2.06.2026, 14:45

Possible mobilization.

Russia may announce a new mobilization in the fall because of the difficult situation on the Ukrainian front, the failure of the winter-spring offensive and heavy losses, said Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev, a former member of the Defense and Security Committee, according to The Moscow Times.

"Now there is active talk in the sidelines and high offices about the need for a new large-scale mobilization. Moreover, people in the know say that a fundamental decision on this matter has already been made and it will be in the fall," Gurulev wrote.

He said that such a decision, however, "will not lead to a breakthrough" if the problem of the AFU drones, which "dismantle infantry" on the approaches, prevent assault groups from "raising their heads" and "literally swamp" both the front line and the near rear, is not solved. "We will simply get a multiple increase in casualties," Gurulev predicts.

He also draws attention to the situation in Crimea, where a gasoline shortage has emerged, and UAV attacks on the Novorossiya highway, which is meant to supply the peninsula by land. "The enemy is acting brazenly, trying to cut off the peninsula and our southern groups from fuel supplies," Gurulev is outraged.

He says the advance on the front has "essentially stood up," and "the SWO has finally moved into the format of a brutal positional stalemate," which is "a harbinger of exhaustion if the initiative is not intercepted in time."

"Stop harboring illusions that 'we are about to break through.' It won't happen unless we radically change our approach," Gurulev urges. - We have to restructure the management and, most importantly, we must strictly ask those who failed to secure the Novorossiya highway, so that others will not even think of negligence in such matters".