Ukrainian MP explains why Russia could collapse as suddenly as the USSR
People’s Deputy from the Servant of the People party and Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Sviatoslav Yurash has warned that Russia appears strong only from a distance.
In an interview with Telegraph, Yurash explained that the country’s internal structure is fragile and could collapse instantly, much like the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Western analysts, he noted, did not believe in the USSR’s collapse until the very end, considering it unshakable — but reality proved otherwise.
Yurash cited the example of Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, who detached part of the front and marched on Moscow — a true “black swan” event that could have triggered a chain reaction of government collapse. Prigozhin paid with his life for this move, and his crimes in Ukraine leave no room for sympathy.
At the front lines, soldiers remain sceptical of “peace plans” and possible negotiations between former US President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. The key, they say, is not in the Americans, but in the aggressor itself: Russia still seeks to destroy Ukraine. Troops understand that the enemy’s ambitions have not changed.
Yurash urged Ukrainians to prepare for daily struggle without illusions of a gradual end to the war. Every morning should begin with actions that strengthen the state. The perceived stability of the aggressor, he stressed, is merely an illusion — one that can vanish at any moment.
