Russia’s latest military failures polarise society even more
by Andrew Roth Moscow correspondent and Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#5YBH1)
War critics grow increasingly vocal while state media fuels hatred for the west
Even Vladimir Soloviev, a state TV host, was having trouble swallowing the loss of Russia's flagship cruiser Moskva last week as he took aim at a rare target: the Russian military.
You just tell me how you were able to lose it," he said in an extended temper tantrum on his talkshow, one of Russia's most popular. Tell me, what the hell were you doing in that particular area of the Black Sea at that moment?"
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