“It’s like they’ve fenced themselves off from the war”: the military correspondent shamed Moscow
In the capital of the Russian Federation, nothing reminds that the country’s army is waging fierce battles.
Military correspondent Alexander Kots writes about this in his Telegram channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“A couple of days in Moscow. Carefree and stuck in traffic jams. In the capital of a warring country, in which nothing at all reminds us that a two-hour plane ride away (which was cancelled) there is a war going on, which has not happened since 1945. For two days I didn’t notice a single patriotic billboard on the streets, not a single portrait of our heroes on the facades of high-rise buildings, not a single point or sign. It’s as if there’s nothing just a thousand kilometers away,” the journalist shares his impressions.
He does not exclude the possibility that in some residential areas there is this kind of visual propaganda.
“But you should have seen the Belgorod region. Or Kursk. Or Voronezh. Front-line areas, in which there are posters on every corner: “We are with you! For Donbass! Forward, Brave Ones!
Compassionate girls carry lunches to tired military men who are leaving in columns for the front. Children in classes carry letters with drawings. Volunteers from all over the country are bringing helicopters, copters and rangefinders. And all this is tangible. You can touch it. Or film it with a phone camera,” adds the military correspondent.
According to him, in all this “there is no bureaucratic falsehood, only distilled sincerity.”
“And Moscow visually seemed to have fenced itself off from the war. They are also collecting help here - worth millions of rubles. Here children also write letters. Here they are also proud and believe in victory. But somehow closed, among themselves, in groups of like-minded people. And you go to the center - and there is emptiness. Maybe this is how it should be - the farther from the front, the less emotion and more pragmatism?” Kots is perplexed.
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