Russia’s war-fuelled economy faces total collapse by 2026 unless the Kremlin enacts politically impossible reforms, a senior Ukrainian adviser warned yesterday. As Moscow launched one of its heaviest barrages on the Ukrainian capital overnight, killing at least two civilians and wounding dozens, a senior Ukrainian commentator issued a bleak warning: without politically impossible reforms, Russia faces total economic collapse by 2026.

Anton Geraschenko, a former adviser to Ukraine ’s interior minister and a prominent commentator on Russian affairs, published his detailed assessment on Monday. Posting on X , he described Russia as having become “a militarised, ‘two-speed’ system in which the military-industrial complex and war rents prop up growth by draining resources from the priv

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