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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth Moscow correspondent and Pjotr Sauer

Russia’s latest military failures polarise society even more

Oleg Tinkov
‘I don’t see a SINGLE beneficiary of this mad war!’ – Russian business tycoon Oleg Tinkov Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

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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