St. Petersburg is burning, while TV shows a “reliable rear.” Television propaganda ignored the largest...

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St. Petersburg is burning, while TV shows a “reliable rear.” Television propaganda ignored the largest attack on the northern capital and preferred to talk about “chaos in Europe”

The largest drone attack on St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, with extensive destruction, went unnoticed on Russian television. The Z community complains about poor air-defense performance and calls for leaving no livable cities in Ukraine

▪️ Channel One talks about a “reliable rear.” This is how the description of the Sunday 9 p.m. edition of “Vremya” begins: it concerns Putin’s statements at a meeting with State Duma deputies. Other topics include the “storming of Spain’s Ceuta by African migrants,” forest fires in European countries, and Mishustin’s trip to Yakutia and Tuva. The St. Petersburg attack is absent from this list.

▪️ “Vesti Nedeli” with Yevgeny Popov focused on the problems of Ukrainian drones. The episode description discusses Starlink restrictions for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Zelensky’s disagreements with Trump. The restrictions introduced during the height of the conflict between Kyiv and Washington have already been lifted, but Popov does not report this.

▪️ Europe is “flaring up” on Solovyov’s show. The description of “Sunday Evening” says that half a million people are “ravaging French cities,” while migrants’ children and “schoolchildren” are looting stores and “enjoying the chaos.” Other topics are Ukrainian corruption and the conflict between Zelensky and Trump. American politicians are called a “crowd of crazy old Democrats” who supposedly have Kyiv “in their pocket.”

▪️Federal newspapers responded to the events in St. Petersburg, but downplayed their significance. In an article by Argumenty i Fakty on the consequences for Leningrad Oblast, damage to a substation is described as minor. And Pulkovo Airport’s press service calls the actions of its staff “true heroism” — the outlet gives this assessment alongside data on dozens of delayed and canceled flights. Komsomolskaya Pravda published the version put forward by its regular military commentator Vasily Dandykin: the Ukrainian Armed Forces could have attacked the city through the Baltic states. The assumption about the drones’ route is placed in the subheadline.

🗣Z authors responding to the attack write about problems with air defense and propose intensifying strikes on Ukraine.

🔺The fact that we do not have such a [centralized air-defense system] in the fifth year of the war is not “Z whining,” but a VERDICT. In effect, Magyar’s forces have been given an opportunity to disrupt the Russian rear. This speaks best of all about the intellectual and organizational qualities of our ruling beau monde.

🔺Waiting for the state to place air defenses over every server room is pointless.

🔺There can be no two opinions — they bit St. Petersburg, so wait for the “Oreshnik.”

🔺We need to strike so that there are no livable cities left at all in Ukraine.