"One of the conditions of the negotiations will be a temporary ceasefire for the duration of the negotiations. This guarantees Putin a delay in losing," Zhdanov noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has realized, or his generals report to him, that today the RF Armed Forces have lost their offensive potential.

And tomorrow, the occupiers risk losing their defensive potential, military expert Oleg Zhdanov said to Argument: "This is what they are trying to convey to Putin: tomorrow the army may crumble, even a million mobilized will simply scatter."

It is precise with the fear of losing that Zhdanov connects the renewed talk in Russia about "negotiations": "For Putin, it is not the meaning and content of the negotiations that are important; he needs a fact."

“One of the conditions of the negotiations will be a temporary ceasefire for the period of negotiations. This guarantees Putin a delay in losing this war. He needs a ceasefire from our side to regroup and train these troops. Because there is nothing even to wear "mobilized"," Zhdanov explained.

The expert stated that the mobilization system of the Russian Federation turned out to be unprepared to receive mobilized people in numbers more significant than the usual conscription into the ranks of the RF Armed Forces. And this is somewhere around 120-130 thousand people.

• According to Western experts, the course of forced mobilization was temporarily suspended in order to free up bureaucratic capacity for the usual autumn draft.