Seems like the finishing touch in a war already lost.
It does seem like that. I believe the WRRF had to be evidently faltering at it's seams if Vlad had been confident enough in striking out on his own with his sub-standard army. Otherwise, if The Front still looked to be standing strong and steady, then it's a wonder why Vlad would take the risk and force his way through the lines when it would clearly look like such a move would end disastrously for him nor would it make sense what his plan was exactly if the conditions weren't favourable for him to set up a statelet within the WRRF's territory, unless he planned to cut through all the way towards somewhere out of Russia and the war itself.
I guess it depends on the personal view of the situation.
From my own view, both leaders had understandable motives. Vlad's family was being held hostage and Vlasov was facing the fairly high prospect of dying in a POW camp and perhaps getting executed by the Soviets for "failure" and getting captured as well (though I can't say if the WRRF would have been as prone to that as Stalin was, in which case we could only consider the awfully fatal Nazi POW camps). The rank-and-file is where the differences are more clear-cut, with Vlad's followers being those Whites who rallied to him when he was coerced into collaboration, even including Whites who hadn't co-operated with Germany OTL.
Whereas Vlasov's ROA was mostly composed of POW like himself whose lives under German captivity tended to be (bluntly speaking) shitty and short, and were desperate for any avenue out of it. In addition to some special cases like Bunyachenko, who not only had to endure pains of being a POW in Nazi custody (I believe TNOTL, he was a forced labourer in a Coal mine) but also bore a bitter grudge against their nation, like when Bunyachenko had been screwed over and sentenced to death-in-absentia by the Soviet Gov't for following one of
their orders, that which had turned out to be counter-productive to the war effort.