The drone attack on the capital Moscow was widely reported in Russia on Tuesday morning, angering some, while some Moscow propagandists appeared to be quite alarmed by the situation.

“By the way, the sooner the residents of Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and St. Petersburg understand that we have a war and go to war, the sooner we will win. There will be problems as long as people feel it [războiul] it is very far and not very important,” Volodymyr Solovyov, who is considered the favorite propagandist of President Vladimir Putin, said in his show.

“This must be understood! Guys, this is serious!” he urged, adding that the war will not end tomorrow and will “affect everyone”.

“NATO provided [Ucrainei] all for the sake of destroying Russia,” he charged, then suggested that the Poles would attack Russia “after the Ukrainians are finished,” referring to a favorite Russian propaganda trope that the US or NATO would fight Russia “to the last Ukrainian.” “.

“So we must be vigilant, not panic, be calm and ask ourselves: ‘What did I do to win?'” Solovyov urged before starting a new call for the destruction of Ukrainian cities, listing Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv . and other.

Some Russian propagandists perceive the attack on Moscow as positive

Military analyst Kostyantyn Sivkov, a former naval officer who held high positions in Moscow’s military command, expressed a similar opinion.

“I sincerely believe – and who wants to condemn me for this – that these strikes were very positive for us,” he said on the set of one of the programs of the Gazprom-owned NTV channel.

“Why? For a very simple reason: they mobilize society. Because yes, our society will really begin to realize the conditions we are in,” Sivkov explained his position, adding that the strikes on Moscow did not have a military impact, but had a “very serious socio-political”.

“Now people will understand that our enemy is very serious, that the enemy can blow up your car or apartment, that they can blow up the entrance to your apartment, that you have to be careful and carefully check where you live, who you spend time with and how you behave,” argued Sivkov, stressing that “these are very important things.”

The drone strikes caused further angry reactions from Prigozhin and Girkin

At the same time, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the “Wagner” PMC, reacted diametrically opposite, making new sharp accusations against the military command in Moscow in an audio message published by the press service of his catering company “Concordia”, and then deciphered by the administrators of his Telegram channel.

“Infectious beasts. What you do? (…) Get your asses out of the offices where you were sent to defend this country. You are the Ministry of Defense (…) How the hell did you allow these drones into Moscow?”, he responded.

“As a citizen, I am deeply outraged that these denials are being silenced (…) Therefore, I believe that the people have every right to bring these shameless people to justice,” he said, among other things, in the full address. invectives at the military leadership of Russia.

Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian separatists in Donbas and a war criminal sentenced in the Netherlands to life imprisonment, stated in his Telegram channel that the strikes on Moscow have nothing to do with the destruction caused, but rather their psychological impact.

“The leadership of the country did not promise a war, but a special operation. It seems to me (and I think to many others too) that a special military operation does not involve strikes on strategic aviation with [aerodromurile] Engels or from Moscow, which has had the best air defense and missile defense system in all of Russia since Soviet times,” he said.

Accusing Kremlin propaganda of being untrue, he asked “what is the real plan” of President Vladimir Putin’s administration. “What can this plan foresee, apart from the occupation of the Kremlin by Ukrainians?” he wrote.

At the same time, Girkin also accused the administrators of the Telegram channel “Rybar”, known for its unwavering support of the “special military operation”, that they unconditionally accept Kremlin propaganda and draw inspiration from the “propaganda manual” compiled by the Putin administration to present an unrealistic version of events to Russians.

A Russian general found an excuse for the failure of Moscow’s anti-aircraft defense

After announcing early Tuesday that its forces had shot down 8 drones that caused no casualties or serious damage in Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry rushed to try to deflect attention from their significance.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu came out in person to announce how many casualties his forces inflicted on Ukrainians in May, backed by General Igor Konashenkov, the ministry’s spokesman, who announced new strikes on “decision-making centers” from Ukraine.

But before them, General Andriy Kartapolov, a former deputy minister of defense who now heads the defense committee of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, came to the fore. His statement went viral on the Internet.

“We have a very big country, and there is always a loophole where a drone can fly, bypassing areas where air defense systems are located,” he told the Russian RBC TV channel.

One of his colleagues in the State Duma disagreed with his assessment of the situation, saying that the Russian parliament should discuss “issues related to security, civil defense” and suggested that Russian lawmakers have no right to discuss issues related to , as a “special military operation” develops.

In a militant address to Ukraine, in which he revived the thesis about the “Nazi regime” in Kyiv, he also threatened that “tactical nuclear weapons will not remain in their sheaths for long.”

Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of trying to “provoke” Russia, but the military did its job

Perhaps also in an attempt to minimize the symbolism of the new attack on the Russian capital, Putin did not appear in a televised speech on the subject. But he was asked about the drone attack on Tuesday afternoon during a visit to the Zolotov Center for Education and Culture in Moscow.

“Thus, two or three days ago, the Armed Forces of Russia launched an attack on the headquarters of the military intelligence of Ukraine. At the same time, the Kyiv regime chose a different path – intimidation of Russian citizens and attacks on residential buildings. This is a clear manifestation of terrorist activity,” he said.

Putin also said that the purpose of the drone attack on Moscow was to “provoke Russia’s response.”

The head of the Kremlin also noted that Moscow’s Air Defense Forces are functioning “according to plan, satisfactorily.” “However, we still have a lot to work on,” he added.

Ordinary Russians, rather fatalists

In a report published Tuesday night based on several interviews conducted on the streets of the Russian capital, Reuters noted that Moscow residents have taken a rather fatalistic stance following a drone attack targeting their city earlier in the day.

Very few expressed concern about what had happened, and many shrugged when reporters asked about the situation. But some expressed sadness that the war seemed to be escalating.

“The Kyiv regime has already crossed all the red lines. It’s very sad, especially since now these drones are directed at residential buildings, at the city, at the civilian population, where there are no military facilities,” said 59-year-old Nataliya.

Olga, another woman who told Reuters she lives near where one of the drones fell, instead said the strikes were “logical, they were expected, what else can we expect?”

“Of course, I’m glad about it [drona] it didn’t fall on my house, just nearby,” she said, adding that she was thinking of moving somewhere safer.

“It is necessary to understand the cause-and-effect relationships, why all this is happening. I think that these attacks are related to one thing: the fact that our leader started a war. No wonder he bounced back here,” a middle-aged man, who did not want to give his name for fear of what might happen to him, told reporters.

“All this is happening because of our leader,” he said.

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