"It Will Go Into A Tailspin": Girkin Predicts Russia's Collapse

• 15.07.2026, 7:43

Ukraine has found Russia's "Achilles' heel."

War criminal and "Z-patriot" Igor Strelkov (Girkin) has come out with a new prediction about what lies ahead for Russia in the war against Ukraine. He expects defeat and internal collapse.

Girkin’s letters dated July 14 were published on his Telegram channel, according to “Dialog”. He reacted extremely sharply to new threats against Ukraine from Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Girkin called them “empty and baseless.”

He pointed out that over the past year, the Russian army had managed to advance only a few kilometers on the front lines, capturing a couple of destroyed villages. Ukraine, for its part, “has made major industrial and military facilities all the way to the Urals, inclusive, vulnerable to massive and highly effective strikes.”

Most importantly, no progress has been made toward achieving the stated goals of the “special military operation.” “Pathetic babbling… about some pitiful ‘security zones’ can elicit nothing but contemptuous mockery from our enemies,” — wrote Girkin.

He is particularly concerned about the state of Russia’s public finances. He expects that in just a year or a year and a half, the Russian economy will “go into a tailspin.” And the new mobilization being prepared in the Kremlin will only accelerate this process.

“The more people are pulled out of the economy for the war, the shorter the time until nationwide collapse… Victory requires not square kilometers, but the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces… Without this, there will be no victory, the war will not end, and the collapse of the economy—and not just the economy—will become inevitable,” Strelkov stated.