Russian stock market PLUMMETS: is Putin running out of options in Ukraine?

Europe will be drawn in and Russia will be destroyed

Excellent analysis. Always get good insights from Nina, fun fact she is indeed former Soviet leader Nikita K’s great granddaughter.

where my firestick ?

I've been predicting a September collapse in Russia since their communication fiasco began and nothing we've seen in the last four months has gotten me to think otherwise. It looks like Putin has created a perfect storm of blowback in business leadership, in the markets, in soldiers, and on the battlefield. They might all come to a crisis point at the same time. The world needs to start preparing for the aftermath as it is likely to be very chaotic.

the only people who cant risk peace are putin and his cronies.

Matt fry is hysterical. In love with his own voice and blind to anything other than his own thoughts.

Matt should let Mark Talk. Matt is irritating as he interrupts inappropriately.

What do the Russian population believe Putin is even fighting the war for now? Genocide, nazis, Ukrainian nuclear weapons development? Please... There are four years of global media coverage, a large amount of it being broadcast by countries that are completely independent of the Russia/Ukraine/NATO sphere of influence - impartial and hard to ignore. Russians have access to the internet, surely they are now questioning four years of global media coverage showing Putin bombing residential areas and zero evidence of Ukraine ever having committed genocide, zero neo-nazi movements, and zero nuclear weapons development?

russia cannot win, and never could. They cannot stop the defence production from Ukraine's allies without triggering NATO article 5. Meanwhile all of russias military and economical production is available for kinetic sanctions. If russia wants to stop losing EVERYTHING... they need to retreat and stop their failed invasion...

Putin is not a president, he is not an autocrat, he is a common criminal and he will react and act as common criminal. That is his essence and way of thinking.

The assumption is that the russian state pays the families.

This is how lemmings are led to their deaths, pathetic

They really ought to get themselves a new crystal ball.

Interesting guest! Somewone who understands (it seems) the Russian perspective.

When you are a person like putin how has killed hundreds of thousands of hes young men for wat ..at the end of this putin will end up being over throne by the people of Russia...

Putin has gold. He has plenty of options

... or you just print a stack of cash for each dead soldier, and hand it to the bereaved in a gym bag.

It was not just that they asked Musk. The IPO would have revealed all that money from Starlink going to spooky Russian actors which would have possibly hurt his big trillion dollar scam payday.

Slava Ukraine from Hungary.
Glory to the heroes of Ukraine.
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Uhm......no, Russia has never ran out of options, and there is no "options ". There's an objective and it will be accomplished, like it always is

The Brits forced a defeat on Germany in 1918 and look how that turned out; War 2 decades later. Now they are want to force a defeat on a Russia with thousands of nukes; what is the end game of that?? How is it going to turn out?

She is 100% right. And we in the west must wake up.

Russian patriotic mysticism has never been enough to stop an inevitable collapse of the system. The Soviet Union projected a perception of invicibility right up until it's collapse and that was in an age where the modern internet didn't exist, younger Russians in particular have been exposed to life outside the bubble created by Putin and although they obviously fear the regime I believe they understand the precarious position the country is in.
How that plays out is anyone's guess but Putin is clinging on to a world that only exists inside his head and general mobilisation along with the increasing affects of Ukraines deep strikes could be a tipping point.
Slava Ukraini!!!

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Who is complacent? Look at the military spending of the EU nations since Feb 2022. Please stop referencing the West, Trump has shown the world the USA only has one ally, Israel.

These guys are not experts. No idea

Two points for Channel 4:
1. The billions of roubles paid to the families of dead Russian soldiers are not a direct problem for the economy. Given that ordinary Russians cannot buy imported goods, they will either spend this money on domestic goods or save it. It circulates in the economy and can, in fact, be a booster. Elvira Nabulina, head of the Central Bank, understands this. 99% of Western commentators and journalists do not.
2. Under international law Hezbollah is defending Lebanon against an invading force, in the EXACT same way that the Ukraine is defending itself against Russia. It is not committing war crimes, unlike the invading Israelis. How quickly the British forget that they called Mandela, Kenyatta, Collins terrorists, when in fact they were, like Hezbollah, legally recognisable freedom fighters.

That lady must watch a lot of YouTubes😂

The Russian economy is a wartime economy, take away government spending on military and the economy crumbles. Russia has already sold off over 4 billion in Gold and since Dec 2025 it has failed to replace casualties rates in the army. Russia is losing and its people will rise up if Putin tries to increases conscriptions in Moscow or St Petersburg. Slava Ukraine

No families ever get that money. They don’t even bother to feed the ones being sent to their death so there’s no way they are going to pay large amounts of money to families

Putin needs an off-ramp. A way to de-escalate while saving face. Very hard to see what options Ukraine have to offer this if they want total victory. The rat is cornered, but the rat has nukes.

Trump should tell Putin the truth and deliver a wooden coffin!

There are other things brewing in Russia. The Chechnian leader might die and the anti-Putin Chechnians could rebel. And other regions could do the same.

Tsaritsyn Weapons Factory cough, cough

There is no way for Russia to keep Crimea therefore also no future for Putin. Another solution is just not possible.

I’m with the Russian lady on calling it a necessary escalation by Vladimir Putin to go ahead and announce the special military operation to be a full-fledged war on Ukraine fairly soon before the Kremlin gets embarrassed even more by heavy drone attacks on the oil refinery

Good…. May Mother Russia starve

Russia is the embodiment of a nation of hard headedness, stupidity and a nation that ALWAYS learns the HARD WAY

What Russia is and what we understand Russia to be are totally unrelated. Russia's deception is its security cloak.

Putin won’t blink till he sleeps forever.
Slava Ukraine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🫶🇺🇦

AZ here, thank you Gentlemen for your input and perspectives. 😊❤

Just amazing that C4 reporters need to have it so clearly explained to them that Vladimir Putin doesn't see the world the same way they do

I mean, the filter?