Since February 24, an impenetrable veil surrounded the Russian army in the country’s press. The information about the men who made it up, strictly speaking, their command, the conditions of recruitment and training, their morale and psychological state at the front, the loss of life is fragmented to say the least. A law passed in the Russian Duma on March 4 now severely punishes its spread “fake news”On the Russian army in Ukraine. The authorized media, mostly close to the government, are therefore very strict, while almost all free media have been banned one by one, their websites have been blocked.
But while the Russian government would like the population to know as little as possible behind the scenes of the operation in Ukraine, a very serious centrist newspaper. Merchant On Monday, a small stone was thrown into the pond, making official what was already being said on independent channels. Russia is in a campaign to restore vital forces to be injected…
Source: Le Figaro
