Khodaryonok's pessimism is not new, as he wrote a Nezavisimaya Gazeta article before the war that warned of no blitz in Ukraine. But him taking this stance on Olga Skabeeva's Rossiya-1 show, which is a hotbed of nationalist propaganda, is striking https://t.co/iinHWWRawm

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