Putin reduced the burden on a federal budget by getting rid of 10s of thousands of prisoners. Those same prisoners were thrown to the front line, which preserved the lives of the regulars and inflicted a massive loss on the Ukranian side. Quite a clever move. Every time Prigozhin spoke publicly, he was hoping to negotiate a better contract, nothing more nothing less.
You live in denial. The main problem for Ukraine is men not wanting to fight and a complete lack of a military strategy to fight Russia. Who is going to operate those weapons you are talking about?
"Ukraine has borne up under the unrealistic expectation that they can simply rise to the technical proficiency of a standing NATO member, and because their survival has demanded that they find a way to do so, the West continues to send more refined systems that might not even be useful in the long-term. More weapons without professionalization and coordination of those forces is not the answer."
