31 January 2026
Russia’s top leadership faces the fate of Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia, who was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars and died in prison, stated Igor Girkin (Strelkov). This is how the former head of the “Ministry of Defense” of the self-proclaimed “DPR,” who is serving a sentence in a Russian penal colony for inciting extremism, commented on reports that Moscow has agreed to an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, which, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, will last until February 1.
“What is our leadership counting on, I honestly don’t quite understand. Forgiveness? There won’t be any. Reconciliation? There won’t be any. It will all end like with Milosevic, that’s completely obvious now,” Strelkov wrote on Telegram. He believes the Kremlin is trying to “play a game of attrition” with Washington, which supplies the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weapons and ammunition, while Ukraine is “stupidly stalling for time, hoping to defeat Russia in a war of attrition.” Strelkov also claimed the Russian army has suffered “enormous” losses during the nearly four-year-long invasion. According to the latest report from the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Russia has lost nearly 1.2 million people in the war, 325,000 of whom were killed.
Strelkov, who called himself the instigator of the war in Donbas in 2014, is no stranger to criticism of the Russian leadership. In January, he published a series of posts in which he claimed that Russia was rapidly moving toward a repeat of the February Revolution of 1917, and that the elites were trying to sell out the country by approving what he called a humiliating peace agreement with Ukraine, which essentially amounted to a defeat in the war. The former FSB colonel also claimed that the volume of lies from officials and propaganda was breaking all historical records, and that the situation at the front and the economy was rapidly deteriorating.
In November 2022, a court in The Hague sentenced Strelkov in absentia to life imprisonment for his involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. In January 2024, a Moscow court found him guilty of “public calls for extremism” and sentenced him to four years in prison. The charges stemmed from two posts on Strelkov’s Telegram channel criticizing the Russian authorities.
The best case scenario is for the gutter rat being captured/kidnapped by the Ukrainians and brought to Kyiv, where he can be put into a cage on Maidan Square … naked. Then, we’ll see.
“…while Ukraine is “stupidly stalling for time, hoping to defeat Russia in a war of attrition.”
What else does this idiot think Ukraine should do? It has no other choice, seeing how its friends are acting.