You may be interested in Russian opinion on Ukraine having cluster munitions:
“Ukraine was given dangerous cluster munitions. What does this mean for our army?
The supply of American cluster munitions to Ukraine is bad news, they will seriously worsen the situation at the front. This was told to us by sources in the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, with whom we promptly contacted.
Firstly, our losses will increase at least two, and possibly three times. Also, unfortunately, the number of seriously wounded soldiers will increase, including those who will lose their arms, legs, and eyes.
Secondly, the number of deserters is likely to increase. “We learned about the supply of cluster munitions to the enemy from intelligence a few days ago. Many commanders are worried – now it will be even more difficult for them to send soldiers into battle. I’m afraid there will be orders of magnitude more deserters and soldiers who surrender to the Ukrainians. And there are a lot of them now, recently, for example, in the Zaporozhye region, a group of about 40 mobilized surrendered,” one of the interlocutors complained.
Thirdly, so far no one undertakes to say whether cluster munitions will affect the enemy’s offensive at the front. “The situation now is such that no one will give you forecasts at all. We can repel attacks, the front may crumble, something else may happen, there are a lot of options. I think there will be a new mobilization soon, it should help us,” the representative of the Ministry of Defense believes.
Whether there will be a large-scale mobilization, he does not know for sure, but claims that in the last two weeks “this issue is being discussed more and more often.”
The so-called referenda conducted in four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine cannot be considered legal under international law, the UN’s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the Security Council on Tuesday.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128161
BTW:
Exiled Russian oligarch says Putin went ‘insane’ after Ukrainians did not welcome his invasion and ‘meet him with flowers’ like he anticipated
Sarah Al-Arshani
business insider
Apr 3, 2022, 2:10 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/exiled-russian-oligarch-putin-went-insane-after-ukraine-resisted-2022-4?op=1
-Ukrainian resistance to Putin’s invasion led him to go “insane,” a former Russian oligarch said.
-Mikhail Khodorkovsky told CNN that Putin expected to be met with “flowers” in Ukraine.
-”It not only just angered him, I really think it drove him literally insane,” Khodorkovsky said.
“An exiled Russian oligarch said Putin went “insane” after he anticipated that the people of Ukraine would “meet him with flowers” when he invaded the country.
“At first, what he wanted was to change the power in Kyiv, put in his puppet, and was expecting that this would be met with flowers thrown in the streets by Ukrainian people,” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former CEO of the Russian oil giant Yukos, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday.
Khodorkovsky — who was once the richest man in Russia, and was imprisoned for nine years on charges of fraud and tax evasion until his release in 2013 — has been an outspoken critic of Putin. He has said his imprisonment was politically motivated.
He told Zakaria that when Ukrainians resisted the invasion, Putin went crazy.
“The fact that the people in Kharkiv did not meet him with flowers, it not only just angered him, I really think it drove him literally insane. That’s when he started bombing Kharkiv and Kyiv,” Khodorkovsky said.
Khodorkovsky said Putin has three ways out of this crisis: continue to pressure Ukraine, use weapons of mass destruction to force Ukrainians to retreat, or start “actual” negotiations.
Last month the exiled oligarch said the war in Ukraine would lead to Putin’s downfall.
“I’m convinced that Putin hasn’t got much time left. Maybe a year, maybe three,” he told CNN.
Former Russian Deputy Energy minister Vladimir Milov told CNN’s Erin Burnett top officials in the Russian government are “personally devastated” by Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, adding it was only a matter of months before Putin lost his grasp on power.”