The sinking of the Russian flagship Moskva goes bad in Moscow. In recent hours, Russian state television has seen presenters, analysts and commentators screaming furiously for retaliation.
The anger is quite remarkable: because according to the official Russian version of the facts, this was an accident. A fire is said to have broken out on the Moskva through sheer bad luck, which led to several explosions. The damage was not too bad at first, but then it started to storm and the Moskva sank after all. So, not at all – as Ukraine claims – that it was Ukrainian missiles that plummeted the ‘pride of the black sea’.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, Russia said it attacked a machine factory on the outskirts of Kiev where Ukraine makes missiles for shelling vessels or aircraft. It concerns the state-owned company Vizar in Vishneve on the southwestern edge of the Ukrainian capital. Russia says it has more targets in its sights in the Kiev region again, after it had been relatively calm in and around the city for some time.
The timing of the attack is controversial. Ukraine says it hit and sunk the ship with missiles from Vishneve. Remarkably, Russian media talk about the bombing of the factory in retaliation for what has been done to the Moskva.
So Russian state television has also called for revenge for something the Ukrainians did not do, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. In short, whatever the case, the Moskva has become a headache for Putin’s propaganda departments.
Images shared by Russian media analyst Julia Davis on social media show a presenter receiving live news that the Moskva has sunk. “Even the fact that there is an attack against our territory is case bellian absolute cause for war,” analyst Vladimir Bortko fulminates on state channel Russia-1† Russia-1 is the second most watched channel on Russian television and must only Channel One let go, the channel where Marina Ovsyannikova a month ago raised a protest sign against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine behind the news anchor.
According to Borto, the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine is now over. “It ended last night, when our motherland was attacked. The Moskva is an absolute cause for war. One hundred percent sure. It’s our flagship. We don’t have to think about anything. There must be an answer.”
Bortko goes even further and believes that the Ukrainian capital Kiev should be bombed. “That’s what needs to be done. We can only answer in one way: throw one bomb on it and you’re done.”
In another program on Russia-1 one commentator proclaims that the whole idea of Ukrainian identity must be obliterated. “It has been poisoning the lives of the Slavic peoples for a hundred years. It is in reality Russians who they have told that they are no longer Russians, but Ukrainians. Although the name itself is an insult. That will take its time. But before we do that and before they realize they need to be educated, they need to be beaten convincingly.”
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