Well, lets hope they fail.
“War correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny is alive but in a very serious condition, the Zvezda TV channel reported. Doctors at the Kursk Regional Hospital are doing everything possible to save the journalist’s life, it said.”
https://x.com/josephineVV5/status/1821274402199384204
If he survives then he can have the fun of describing the fall of Putin to all the Russians who are sick of war and conscription. Wonder how that would affect his popularity?