Vladimir Putin’s response to the attack on the Crimean bridge cheers the hawks of total war, who in the shadow of the Kremlin are pressing for a new escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian president at the beginning of the Security Council meeting told his followers that “at the suggestion of the Ministry of Defense and in accordance with the General Staff’s plan, a massive attack was carried out with high-precision air, sea and land weapons.” on Ukraine’s energy, military command and communication structures” and pointed the finger at Kiev’s Intelligence: “It is also evident that the main, organizers and executors of the latest attack are the Ukrainian special services. regime is on a par with international terrorist formations. It has killed public figures, journalists and academics, both in Ukraine and Russia. For eight years it has bombed the cities of Donbass”, said the tsar according to a report by the Courier which also gives space to the statements by the Russian “hawks”.
TV presenter Margarita Simonyan (pictured with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov) asked Putin for an immediate reaction after the explosion on the bridge. Yesterday he wrote on Telegram, commenting on the rain of Russian missiles over large areas of Ukraine: “Here is our answer.” Chechen leader Kadyrov frontally attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: “Miserable, what are you complaining about? We warn you that Russia has not started to get serious yet. Run Zelensky, run, flee to the West if you can. Now I’m finally satisfied with our special military operation.” Dmitry Medvedev, vice president of the Security Council, said: “The first episode has been staged. There will be others.” The so-called “oligarch of God” Konstantin Malofeev, owner of the Tsargrad channel who had voiced criticism of Cremlini, commented: “Now the rules of the game are finally changing.”
However, according to some analysts, Putin’s words that, in relation to Kiev, after talking about “Nazis” now refer to “terrorists”, mark an attempt to “expand the meaning of the special military operation” with a view to “victimizing the Russia”, the article reads. A movement that seeks to increase domestic involvement in the war in a situation that, due to the military mobilization that brings many Russians to the front, has seen a drastic drop in consensus.
Source: IL Tempo
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