Former leader of Russian Donbas separatists Igor Girkin, local collaborator from Donetsk Pavlo Gubarev, propagandist Maxim Kalashnikov and others announced the creation of the so-called “club of angry patriots” and published a manifesto, reports Ukrainian Pravda.

“Unfortunately, the situation on the contact line, which is polished in every way by the mass media, has an extremely negative effect on the situation in the country as a whole. I am not afraid to say that we are heading for military defeat… We entered into a long and protracted war for which our economy was completely unprepared. Our army and political system were not ready for this either,” said Girkin, who added that during the winter, Russia was unable to repel the enemy even 10 kilometers from Donetsk.

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Ihor Girkin, who often criticizes the country’s mismanagement, calling Defense Minister Shoigu a “cardboard marshal”, has repeatedly stated that Russia will be defeated in Ukraine if it does not mobilize at the national level, Reuters reports.

In September, Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, compared the collapse of one of the main front lines to the catastrophic defeat in the Russo-Japanese War that sparked the 1905 revolution in Russia.

In one of his most vicious attacks, launched in late July, Girkin said of Shoigu that he only knew how to “raise deer,” referring to the Russian minister’s Tuvan origins, and chop firewood.

Ihor Girkin is a militant nationalist and former FSB officer who participated in the resolution of the war in Donbas in 2014. He also commanded pro-Russian separatists in Donbas after the war started 9 years ago.

Girkin, who is accused in the Netherlands of shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, was one of the first vocal critics of the “special military operation” ordered by Putin on February 24.