Given the drone attacks on Moscow, the indifference of Vladimir Putin and the slime of the Russians
The situation had to be serious for Vladimir Putin to break his silence. The Russian leader, who no longer commented on facts related to the war in Ukraine and even less on bad news, finally spoke almost heatedly about the large-scale drone attack that was aimed at the Russian capital on Tuesday, May 30 was.
Mr. Putin attended an event on the topic of “creative industries” in Moscow that day. According to the exiled journalist Farida Roustamova, a specialist in the Kremlin’s secrets, the president’s advisers had to insist on convincing him that it was impossible not to say anything, even if this development, given the “historical” as minor would appear “topics that focus His attention.
Moreover, in this brief, seemingly impromptu conversation with a businessman, Vladimir Putin couldn’t resist laying out the roots of the conflict and the atrocities behind the disappearance of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin chief also accused Ukraine – which denies any responsibility for the attack – of trying to “terrify Russia with terrorist methods”, while Moscow would be content with “only attacking high-precision soldiers” in Ukraine. . Weapons.
The Russian President has primarily tried to reassure his people by portraying this attack as a non-event. The anti-aircraft systems installed in the capital functioned “normally and satisfactorily,” he stressed, even comparing the incident to the Russian army’s fruitless attacks on the Hmeimim airbase in 2018 and 2019. Syria.
You can read the rest of the article by Benoît Vitkine, our correspondent in Moscow, below: