It is very difficult to predict when the war in Ukraine will end, but in the near future the bloodshed can stop. This opinion was expressed by Bulgarian journalist, chief investigator of the international group Bellingcat Hristo Grozev in an interview to the editor-in-chief of the Internet edition "GORDON" Alesa Batzman.
"It's hard to name the end. Because it will most likely not be a sketchy kind of end, that "here's today the war ended." I am afraid that there will be a period in which it will be unclear whether the war has ended or not. But there will be no more bloodshed. And that is the most important thing. And I think we're getting closer to that. It's a matter of a week, maybe ten days," Grozev said.
In his view, Russia's position in this war is "weakening."
"They understand that. And it will be more profitable for them not even to call the war over, because they will have to admit that it is lost, but to stop it at some frozen stage," the journalist suggested.
After that, according to his prediction, a "domestic Russian political wave" will begin, which will provoke the fall of the regime faster than the end of the war.
"And then it will be over with a new regime, a new elite in Russia. That's the most likely way out for me," the journalist said.
In the same interview, Grozev suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "being kept in an information bubble," so he does not have complete information about the situation of Russian troops in Ukraine.
According to the journalist, the Kremlin is already looking for a "scapegoat" to blame for the failure of the blitzkrieg in Ukraine. He did not rule out that it might be Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu.