"It Will End Like With Milosevic."
- 31.01.2026, 18:17
Girkin predicted Putin's trial in The Hague.
The Russian top leadership will face the fate of Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia, who was convicted by the International Tribunal on charges of war crimes during the Yugoslav wars and died in prison, said Igor Girkin (Strelkov). This is how the former head of the self-proclaimed "Defense Ministry" of the self-proclaimed "DNR," who is serving time in a Russian colony for calling for extremism, commented on information about Moscow's agreement to an "energy truce" between Russia and Ukraine, which, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov will last until February 1, reports The Moscow Times.
"What our leadership is counting on, I honestly don't quite understand. On forgiveness? There won't be any. On reconciliation? There won't be any. Everything will end like with Milosevic, now it is quite obvious," Strelkov wrote in his Telegram channel. In his opinion, the Kremlin is trying to "play a pact" with Washington, which supplies the AFU with weapons and ammunition, while Ukraine is "stupidly stalling for time in the expectation that in a war of attrition" it will be able to defeat Russia. Strelkov also claimed "enormous" losses of the Russian army during the nearly four-year invasion. According to the latest report by the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Russia has lost nearly 1.2 million men in the war, 325,000 of them dead alone.
Strelkov, who called himself the instigator of the 2014 war in Donbass, is not the first time he has criticized 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 1917 revolution and that elites were trying to sell the country by approving what he considered a humiliating peace agreement with Ukraine, which was essentially a defeat in the war. The former FSB colonel also said that the volume of lies from officials and propaganda was breaking all historical records, and the situation on the front and the economy was rapidly deteriorating.
In November 2022, a court in The Hague sentenced Strelkov to life imprisonment in absentia on charges of involvement in the crash of Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 in 2014. In January 2024, a court in Moscow found him guilty of "public calls to extremism" and sentenced him to four years in prison. The charges were based on two posts in Strelkov's Telegram channel criticizing the Russian authorities.