War in Ukraine: the surprising change in tone of the Russian media

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In Ukraine, Vladimir Poutine is confronted with a counter-offensive of the Ukrainians on the ground, Tuesday September 13. For the first time, the Russian media spoke of the difficulty of the fighting over the past two days. This change in tone was even accompanied by several calls for the dismissal of the Russian president.

Vladimir Putin is targeted by two calls for dismissal, according to a document circulating on Twitter, Monday, September 12. It was shared by Dimitri Paliougaan elected municipal official of Saint Petersburg (Russia). His municipal Council asks the deputies of the Russian Parliament to lodge a complaint against the President. According to them, Vladimir Putin would have been guilty of high treason. Added to this, in recent days, a freedom of tone little known in the Russian media.

Russian journalists have in fact no longer denied the harshness of the fighting for 48 hours. Events that may have revealed weaknesses at the top of the Kremlin. “The first scenario is, as usual, the Kremlin narrative that was passed on to the media in Russia, which eventually captured this thought. (…) The second possibility is that the Ukrainian counter-offensives were going so fast that there was a difficulty in transmitting information to the media”Dimitri analysis Paliouga.

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