Mourning with missiles.
Nothing better sums up Putin’s Russia than grieving for the nation’s dead while continuing to attack civilians of a neighbor.
A day of national mourning was observed in Russia on Sunday. Billboards with candles on them have already appeared on the streets of Moscow to honour the memory of those killed.
Next to them are other, slightly less recent ones, imploring citizens to enlist in the army, now in its third year of invading Ukraine. Despite observing a solemn day of national mourning, though, Russia nevertheless scrambled 11 Tu-95 strategic bombers to attack a string of cities across Ukraine, from Kyiv and Odesa to Lviv. Nothing is more emblematic of the trap into which Putin has led Russia than the fact of these two simultaneous acts.
Pilots wearing mourning armbands in memory of the Muscovites killed at the hands of terrorists, apparently thought nothing of firing a missile salvo at civilians in Kyiv. The streets of Moscow are full of such symbolism: sincere mourning for slain compatriots co-exists here with the motherland’s calls to join the ranks of its murderers.
The FSB, whose bread and butter has become the identification of so-called Ukrainian saboteurs and LGBT extremist cells, chose to ignore the warning of the evil West, while Putin went one step further and called it Western blackmail and a provocation.
Z-propagandists are now performing painful contortions to link the terrorist attack with Ukraine in some way, in line with the fact that, as Z-propaganda has insisted for years, that’s where the “enemies of Russia” live.
They have no option but to follow the narrative settled on by the Kremlin and to blame Ukraine, even if they never receive a single scrap of supporting evidence for that claim. After all, it would quite simply be preposterous to wage war on Ukraine for over two years, kill thousands of civilians and raze entire cities to the ground, only to then concede that Russia’s enemies should actually have been sought elsewhere. So what likely lies ahead now is a vast effort to fabricate evidence pointing to Islamist fundamentalists who received their assignments from Kyiv.
It’s already clear that this attack was only made possible by the abject failure of Russia’s 'counterterrorism agencies', which in recent years have focused their efforts on intimidating political dissidents and covering up the crimes committed by occupying Russian forces in Ukraine.
In a democracy, such a catastrophic failure to protect the nation would result in an independent parliamentary inquiry, in which the elected representatives of the people would act as prosecutors.
Of course, in Z-landia the official investigation will instead be classified, and the so-called parliament will confirm whatever version has been approved by Putin.
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