PMC Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is also called "Putin's chef," said they were now in a state where they could lose Russia. And to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to introduce "martial law", declare "new waves of mobilization", transfer all factories to the production of ammunition, stop building new roads and skyscrapers, and work only for war.

Is such a scenario possible? Military expert of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future Ivan Stupak in an exclusive interview with TSN.ua told.

"They already have it working – 'everything for the front, everything for victory'. They work there in three shifts at military enterprises. But there is such a big dogma as Steve Jobs - you do not need to work 24 hours a day, you need to work with your head. And Russians have a big question — how to work? Can be set in three shifts. But what can they produce? Old pieces of iron. Something high-tech, new and large-scale without Western help and Western technology is not. They do not succeed. Yes, they will make some single copies. But massively and on a large scale - I am sure that 100% will not work. He is mostly a populist, a radical, trying to be and, in principle, is already a media marshal in this war," Stupak said.

The expert called Prigozhin, not Girkin, "the voice and face of this war."

"Girkin is already far away. But there is no support from civil society. He reminds of himself, says things that many like, supports Telegram channels are growing. But for now, the conversion into real influence is somewhere outside the front. I think that the Kremlin will not listen to him, because he has a lot of enemies in the Russian Federation - the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, even the leadership of the Russian Guard and the head of Zolotov dissociates himself from Prigozhin and he has literally two or three people left who continue to support him," Stupak added.

Russian oligarch Prigozhin said earlier that a "big chunk" of his "prison past" was allegedly used to "demonize" the Russian president.

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