Russian Parliament Just Warned Putin... Russia Is on the Brink of TOTAL COLLAPSE

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A Russian lawmaker stunned the Kremlin by demanding Vladimir Putin deliver a plan to end the Ukraine war, openly blaming him for Russia’s mounting economic, political, and military crises. As criticism spreads from parliament to former allies and ordinary citizens, Putin faces growing pressure from within. Is Russia approaching a breaking point? In this video, we examine the explosive warnings, declining public trust, economic strain, and battlefield losses fueling unprecedented dissent against Putin’s leadership.  00:00 - Parliament Rebels Against Putin 02:28 - Elites Turn on the Kremlin 05:27 - The Hidden Polls Putin Fears 08:08 - Leaked Internal Kremlin Documents 11:32 - Massive Casualties & Forced Mobilization 14:03 - Russia's Economy on the Brink  Support us directly as we bring you independent, up-to-date reporting on military news and global conflicts by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow/join  #militarystrategy #militarydevelopments #militaryanalysis #themilitaryshow  SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/VEXE5XBd

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00:00Deliver a plan to end the Ukraine war. That's the demand roared by a member of Russia's

00:06parliament directly to Vladimir Putin and Russia's president is shaken. His parliament

00:11isn't supposed to say things like that. Don't these people know they're supposed to bend down

00:15and kiss the ring? Forbidden or not, it was just said the war has gone on too long. Russia is

00:22on

00:22the brink of collapse and it's all Putin's fault. Putin is furious but he also accepts that he has

00:29just been given a sharp dose of reality from the one place that is supposed to prop up his narrative.

00:35In statements that have rocked Russia's parliament and sent shockwaves to the very core of the Kremlin,

00:41Vyacheslav Markiev has delivered a blistering riposte to the narrative that Putin has spun

00:46ever since he launched his Ukraine invasion. A deputy of the state Duma and part of Russia's

00:52Communist Party, which is one of the few that attempts to oppose Putin in modern-day Russia,

00:56Russia, Markiev delivered a long tirade in which he accused Putin of ineffective leadership and then

01:02rattled off a list of the reasons why he claims that his statement is 100% accurate. Waves of

01:08corruption that flow throughout all of Russia, an oligarchy propped up by Putin's policies and,

01:14most damning of all, the destruction of what Markiev calls the most active and reproductively

01:20capable segment of the population, all now lie on Putin's shoulders. The message is clear,

01:26Putin has sacrificed an entire generation of Russians to his Ukraine bloodbath and it's about

01:32time he was held to account. The time of illusions is over, the country is on the brink of social

01:39explosion and the blame for this will fall squarely on the entrenched ruling power, Markiev declared as

01:45he blasted Putin in front of the entire Russian parliament. He added,

01:50if the situation persists, social unrest and chaos will become more likely. The West will inevitably

01:56exploit this to destroy the remnants of Russian statehood, Markiev said in his final message to

02:02Russia's leader. What's remarkable about these comments is how brazen they are. This isn't some

02:08policymaker making vague claims that maybe, just maybe, Putin has surrounded himself with the wrong

02:12people and needs to consider changing his course. This is a warning blared from Russia's parliament

02:18directly to the seat of power and it says that Putin is a failing leader who is going to be

02:24put in

02:24his place sooner rather than later. But here's where this gets really serious for Putin. This isn't just

02:30some rogue member of parliament going on the attack. Markiev embodies a growing wellspring of anger inside

02:36Russia that extends not only to other members of Putin's pro-Kremlin gang, but right down to the

02:42very people that Putin relies on to be happy to die for his bloody Ukraine campaign. Markiev is just the

02:48latest prominent figure inside Russia who has it out for the country's president. In mid-May, Renat

02:54Suleimanov, who is another state Duma deputy from Russia's Communist Party, explained in an interview that

03:00he believed that the special military operation was having a damning effect on Russia. Russia's economy will not

03:06withstand a prolonged continuation of the Ukraine war, the lawmaker said, as he pointed out that

03:11military spending now accounts for over 40% of Russia's budget and that military sector goods

03:17have no consumer value. At the same time, adopting a budget with reduced military spending is not the

03:22most difficult thing. But what will happen to the people employed in the defense industry,

03:26to those currently under arms? A million people will return to civilian life. Where are the jobs,

03:31decent salaries and social adaptation? Suleimanov asked. And he has a point. Putin seems to have as

03:38little plan for what comes after Ukraine as he does for what Russia is trying to do inside Ukraine right

03:43now. And another politician has put Russia's leader on blast. Okay, so these are figures from Russia's

03:49Communist Party. They're getting braver, but they are still a party that opposes Putin, so it's natural

03:54for them to say these kinds of things in the State Duma. Maybe, assuming you forget about Putin's

04:00propensity to ensure that those who oppose him somehow end up in the gulags or falling from open

04:04windows. But to hammer the point home, it's not just opposition politicians who are calling Putin out.

04:10Another prominent figure who is calling for an end to Putin's reign is Ilya Ramezlo. For most of the war,

04:16he's been as much of a Putin brown noser as anybody, as he spent years going after critics of Putin's

04:21regime and running smear campaigns against journalists who dared to expose Putin's failures. Now,

04:28Ramezlo has turned his back on Putin. He's gone from pro-Kremlin to burn Putin down as he published

04:34a post on Telegram to his 90,000 followers explaining the reasons why he no longer supports

04:40the president he has professed to love for so many years. Again, we see the same type of reasoning.

04:45Poor military leadership, a generation of Russian people dead for a failing war, the collapse of Russia's

04:51economy. Putin is an illegitimate leader, Ramezlo blared in his piece, and he should resign and be

04:58put on trial as a war criminal. Make no mistake about it, these naysayers are rats and they're doing

05:02what rats do, which is flee the sinking ship when they see that it's on the verge of going down.

05:07That's what Putin is right now, a ship that has been blasted apart in open waters. Those who once

05:12supported him are fleeing. Those who perhaps pretended to support him for fear of what he might

05:17do if they didn't are getting a whole lot braver. The fear is gone, the message is being sent out,

05:22Russia is on the brink of total societal collapse, and it's all Putin's fault. Putin may be enraged

05:29about what these politicians and former cronies are saying about him, but he'll be terrified over

05:33the fact that their words seem to be resonating with the Russian population. If it were just a

05:38few prominent figures calling Putin out, Russia's leader wouldn't be too worried. There are plenty

05:42of open windows in Russia and more than enough opportunities for certain people to take dangerous

05:47falls. But Putin's real problem is that there is an undercurrent of anger among the Russian population

05:52to go alongside all of this fury spewing from the mouths of parliamentarians. Let's take a look at

05:57the polls. Oh, hold on a second. We can't. Why? As the Telegraph reports, the Russian Public Opinion

06:03Research Center, or VCIOM, which is a state-controlled pollster, is no longer going to publish what were

06:08previously open trust ratings for Putin. We're not saying open sarcastically here. VCIOM creates both

06:16open and closed polls. The latter sees the pollster ask respondents directly whether or not they trust

06:22Putin and his ilk. But open polls are different. They call on respondents to name politicians whom

06:27they trust without any sort of prompting. And it's these polls that provide you with the true state of

06:32the average Russian's trust in Putin in 2026. Back in March, over 70% of those who were quizzed in

06:38closed polls about Putin claimed that they trusted Russia's leader. Not as high as Putin would have wanted

06:44to see, but good enough for a type of poll that comes with the hidden warning that anybody who says

06:49they don't trust their leader could be punished. But in open polls from the same month, only 29.5%

06:55of

06:55Russians directly named Putin as a politician they feel they can trust, before this type of poll was

07:01mysteriously discontinued in April. That tells you all that you really need to know. When they aren't

07:07being asked about Putin directly, Russia's people are saying they would trust anybody but him to do the job

07:12he's been doing for more than a quarter of a century. Let's take a deeper dive into those polls.

07:17In a May 22 piece, Medusa revealed that surveys from the Public Opinion Foundation,

07:22which is another of Russia's leading polling organizations, revealed that Putin's overall

07:27approval rating had fallen to its lowest point in a year. It was still relatively high, with 71%

07:32saying that they believed Putin was performing rather well. But remember what we've already seen about

07:37these types of closed polls? When asked directly about Putin, most Russians default to saying that

07:42he's doing a good job out of fear. Far more interesting from this particular poll is that

07:4614% of those quizzed were brave enough to say directly that Putin is doing rather poorly, which

07:52again is the highest number in a year. So it's not just Communist Party deputies and former pro-Kremlin

07:57propagandists who have lost faith in Putin. The Russian people, when answering honestly, are telling

08:02their leader that they no longer trust his judgment. But these are just results and actions that we've

08:07seen publicly. The well of discontent in Russia goes so much deeper, as leaked documents have revealed

08:12that support for Putin isn't just faltering, it's falling off a cliff. That changes everything for

08:18Russia's leader. And a quick side note before we explain why. This is The Military Show and reports

08:23like these are why we make videos. We expose the reality of the Ukraine war and dig deep beyond the

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08:34In the wake of Markiev's blistering tirade against his leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

08:39revealed that Ukrainian intelligence has intercepted classified Russian documents from deep inside the

08:45Kremlin. The information on those documents isn't good for Russia's leader, Zelensky revealed.

08:50The so-called forecast indicators of Russian dissatisfaction with Putin

08:54will continue to grow steadily, Zelensky declared, adding,

08:58he has already begun to be accustomed to the idea that the growth of dissatisfaction cannot be stopped

09:03and this indicator will not plateau before September when parliamentary elections are scheduled in

09:08Russia. The numbers make for terrible reading if you are Vladimir Putin. According to the Kremlin's

09:14own internal projections, only 55% of Russia's population will approve of Putin's actions by the

09:20time that 2026 state Duma elections begin in September. Even more worrying for Putin is that 33%

09:27are projected to explicitly express disapproval, with another 12% either being undecided or falling

09:33into categories other than, we love and trust our president. Putin will already have been caught off

09:38guard by this report. But what really worries him is that the party he rules, United Russia, is

09:44experiencing a steady downward trend in support, Zelensky reveals. That's a problem come election

09:50time in September as it provides openings for opposing parties, such as the Russian Communist

09:55Party, whose members are calling Putin out to make significant gains in Russia's parliament.

10:00The United Russia Party's solution to this problem will apparently be to use significantly more

10:05falsifications to get the results that Putin needs to get for him to maintain control over the state

10:10Duma. No matter where Putin looks, he's seeing Russian people who are ready for a change.

10:15They see that Russia is on the brink of collapsing and their fingers are pointed directly at a man

10:20who spends more time hidden away in bunkers than he does leading his country nowadays. And somehow it

10:25all gets worse for Putin. The leaked documents don't just reveal a collapse in support for Putin and his

10:31party. They also claim that there has been a measurable growth in what the documents dub

10:35protest moods across several Russian regions. That claim gels with a May 14 report by United24 media,

10:43which claimed the protest potential inside Russia had reached its highest level in almost two years.

10:49According to that report, a poll conducted by the independent Levada Center

10:52revealed that 20% of Russians believe that protests against the declining living standards in Russia

10:58are possible, which gives an unsubtle hint about one of the reasons why Putin is seeing so much backlash

11:04right now. Another 14% say that they believe protests with political demands are likely.

11:10Back in November 2025, which is the last time the Levada Center ran this poll, the percentages were 16%

11:16and 11% respectively. The numbers have grown. And when taken with everything else that we're seeing,

11:22it's clear that the Russian people are sick and tired of Putin forcing a war onto them

11:26that is clearly crippling their country. That brings us nicely to why all of this is happening now.

11:32Zelensky tells us something about the leaked documents that reveals one of the reasons why

11:36Putin's popularity is plummeting and why he is now being called out in Russia's parliament.

11:41We believe that these reports do not even take into account the potential events of June,

11:45July, and August, which cannot but affect the situation in Russia additionally,

11:49Zelensky says. In other words, the deaths of Russian people on a massive scale

11:54play a huge role in Putin's decline in popularity, and it's only going to get worse as Russia launches into

12:00its summer offensive. The much-vaunted spring offensive was bad enough for Russia. Assaults

12:05that were supposed to set the stage for the collapse of Donetsk instead delivered death and injury on a

12:10massive scale to Russia. In both March and April, Russia lost around 35,000 soldiers to Ukraine's

12:16defenses. May wasn't much better, as Russia's battlefield losses exceeded 30,000, for a rough

12:22total of 110,000 Russians dead or injured as a result of the spring offensive. That's accounted

12:28for in the leaked Kremlin report, but the projections don't appear to account for what's going to happen

12:33to Russia over the course of a summer where it tries to ramp up its assaults even more. Early

12:51is getting higher. Putin's response to this has been to institute a creeping form of mobilization that

12:56will lead to even more Russian death and, as a result, yet more discontent among a public that

13:02already believes Putin is leading their country to ruin. On June 13th, Pravda reported that Putin

13:07had signed a new decree that increased the total authorized strength of the Russian armed forces to

13:132,399,130 personnel, with 1,510,000 of those being active service members. This, despite the fact that

13:22Russia is falling short of its volunteer goals. The Kyiv Independent reports that Ukrainian intelligence

13:27reveals that 70,500 people signed up to become soldiers for Russia during the first three months

13:33of 2026, which is 30,000 short of Russia's goal and almost 20,000 fewer than the 90,000 who

13:40had signed

13:40up during the same period in 2025. Yet Putin says that Russia's military must grow. At this point,

13:47it's looking like mobilization will be his only option, and that means the anger that is already

13:51inside Russia over losing a generation of its young men, as Markiev blared in the State Duma,

13:56will only intensify. That's bad for Putin. But what's worse is that Russian anger extends beyond the sheer

14:02scale of death that has resulted from Putin's invasion. As the Telegraph points out, Russian defense

14:07expenditure has reached levels that we haven't seen since the Cold War era. It says that military

14:13spending rose by 30% in early 2026, compared to the year before, meaning that Putin's war accounts

14:19for 46% of Russia's total budget spending. Militanyu confirms that assessment in a report,

14:25where it says that almost every second ruble in the Russian state budget is going toward the war.

14:30Think back to the Lavada Center polls we mentioned earlier. Lavada discovered that 20% of Russians

14:35believe that protests are likely because of the declining standards of living inside Russia.

14:41This ridiculous military spending would underpin those protests, as it's Putin's obsession with his

14:46war that is driving Russia off an economic cliff. But there are people who have spoken out about this,

14:52adding to the voices that are calling for Putin to either make a change or get out of the way.

14:57The governor of Russia's central bank, Elvira Nabulina, has been warning of an impending

15:02economic crisis for about a year now. At the 2025 version of the annual St. Petersburg Economic Forum,

15:09Nabulina, along with others, warned that Russia's economy is heading toward a recession. Almost a

15:14year later, in April 2026, she said that Russia had a labor shortfall of 2.5 million, in a situation

15:21she claims she has never seen before in the history of modern Russia. Nabulina may not be calling for

15:26Putin's head like those in Russia's Communist Party, but she has been making it clear that Putin's

15:31economic policies are to blame for Russia's situation. So what is Nabulina saying in the

15:36summer of 2026? Not much, as it turns out. Nabulina wasn't present at the 2026 version of

15:42the forum where she issued her recession warning a year prior, and she hasn't been seen much at all

15:47during the last few weeks. She also skipped an interest rate meeting with Putin and his ministers

15:52during the first week of June. The Kremlin says that she is on sick leave. This is Russia,

15:57and Nabulina has been pointing toward an economic crisis that Putin doesn't want to have exposed.

16:03Is she on sick leave, or is she being kept away from decision-making meetings

16:06that should revolve around her opinion? As he sees his country collapse and his popularity

16:11and trust ratings crater, Putin is trying to hide the state of Russia from its people. He has to face

16:17reality. As UNN reported on June 11, a study has revealed that Russia's financial reserves are

16:23almost exhausted. They've fallen to 1.8% of the country's gross domestic product, as energy revenues

16:29have declined by 45% year on year. The labor shortages that Nabulina warned of mean that the

16:35Russian economy has reached its limits in terms of production, and most of that production is focused

16:39on the war rather than the people. Another poll, this time by the Nest Center, shows that Russia's

16:45dire economic straits are a driver of discontent among the people. That poll says that only 15%

16:51of Russians have a positive opinion about Putin's economic policies, while a third have a negative

16:57view. Again, there are hints of anger coming from polls, but Putin won't waver. He's so hell-bent

17:03on taking Ukraine that he continues to drive Russia into craters. People die by the thousands every month.

17:09More and more money is needed to sustain the invasion. Yet, Putin responds by signing decrees to

17:14increase the size of Russia's army, only adding to these problems. Markiev is right. Russia is on

17:21the brink of a social explosion. But ignorant Putin still doesn't see it coming. He restricts and denies,

17:27keeping his attention on Ukraine even as the alarm bells ring and the warnings blare out. Russia is on

17:33the verge of collapse, and it's Putin that's leading the charge. Putin himself might be the one who destroys

17:38Russia and its ambitions for Ukraine. But Ukraine doesn't need much help to show Russia how bad a

17:43decision Putin's invasion has been. In less than a year, a brilliant new tactic unveiled by Ukraine

17:49has wiped out over 100,000 Russian soldiers. That's the sort of thing that keeps Putin awake

17:54at night, and it's the reason why he's letting his country go to the dogs as he puts all of

17:59his

17:59efforts into Ukraine. Find out more in our video and remember to subscribe to the military show if

18:04you want to see more of our analysis of Putin's many failures and the anger that has resulted inside

18:09Russia. And thank you for watching.

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