Indeed, and there's also plenty of signs pointing to the possibility that Russia may suffer a 1917 style scenario of a financial catastrophy. The Russian budget for 2026 was planned around a 3 trillion ruble deficit. By April's end the deficit was already 5 trillion rubles by official Russian statistics, while accounting for unofficial expenses owing to Russian bookkeeping tricks to hide spending suggests it could be closer to 8-9 trillion.

Russia's vital oil and gas sector is burning with many major facilities being hit at a regular pace, destroying Russia's ability to profit from high oil prices aimply because they can't store or move the oil and gas to ships at full capacity.

The Russian steel sector, backbone of a war economy, is in the midst of war reporting bankruptcies and a 90% drop in profits to near zero margins.

The agricultural sector of Russia is similarly suffering an outright collapse at least for small farmers. This was brought up by a Russian pro war personality with an understanding in economics, whether it was Alexander Kalashnikov of Igor Lipsits, so this is coming from someone who wants Russia to defeat Ukraine and the West, a loyalist of Russia. You have Russian grocery stores importing Indian or Egyptian agricultural goods and refusing to buy Russian alternatives simply due to the sheer costs of getting domestic goods, plus other factors. You also have the Novosibirsk episode of the local government in collusion with big agricultural corporations killing off the cows of independent farmers, because that's a competitor to the big corporations with industrial farms, using a real cattle epidemic as an excuse to cull all the cows no matter if they're showing symptoms.

The Russian defence sector, the literal backbone of the economy which is rotting from within, is alsoa. Sheer mess. Much of it can be described as a mafia corruption racket of various officials and companies, with a bureaucracy worse than Germany or France. We are talking about the Russian military industrial complex cooperating with the state bureaucracy proceeding to tax, fine or regulate any ondependent Russian entrepaneurs say assembling drones at home for the Russian army into bankruptcy, because said drones are not ebing produced by the big companies. In one case a Russian drone producer runnikg a small time operation assembling drones was hit with the issue, that his attempt to get the paperork in order took like a year, while his operation was being taxed too, such that by the time any permit to operate came through properly, the entrepaneur's operation had gone bankrupt. Similarly the Russians are not adopting any local Russian troops inventions, such as in one example a crude weapon that was aböe to do something to drones. The Russians do not see innovations and scale up their production, but instead the invention is left stuck in permitting bureaucracy, while the army gives their soldiers jammers that are outdated that don't work because that is approved due to the supplier being a big guy.

The Russian logistics chain doesn't exist in any proper form and the Russian army isn't exactly supplying its troops. Instead the Russian contract soldiers, whose contracts are automatically renewed, have to use the money they got with the contract to buy their own gear. That is alongside with officers of the Russian army aimply stealing the new conscripts pay, if the soldier doesn't want to be immediately sent to charge Ukrainian positions and be killed.

The Russians have a facade of a rotting atructure, which would come tumbling down if the West marched against Russia as it claims with its full strength. However instead it is able to send thousand men each dya to die as Ukraine lacks the manpower for any major offensives