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Kremlin’s Response to Drone Attacks: ‘Ukrainians Are Terrorists’
Shock sets in as Putin tries to ignore the obvious failure of his war
If you watched the video of the drones sauntering across the silvery Moscow night sky, you might get the sense that the buzzing drones were a new delivery method for a local e-commerce company: Toaster on the way.
Then the explosion rang out and a small mushroom cloud was seen rising in the distance. The standard Russian language reaction could be heard in the video — “blyaaaa…pizdyeeetz (f****, c***). That was the reaction most Russians felt upon waking up and learning of the assault by Ukraine on the homes of peacefully sleeping Russians.
A barrage of attack drones were downed over Moscow on Tuesday, the first time civilian areas of the Russian capital have been touched directly by the Ukrainian conflict and a signal that a distant war may soon begin to feel somewhat less so for ordinary Russians (Drone Strike in Moscow).
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, seemed unfazed by the drone attack saying something like “Well, it must mean that we are doing something right.”
“If the goal was to stress the population, then the very fact that drones have appeared in the skies over Moscow has contributed to that,” wrote one…
