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ChristoGrozev@bsky.social Profile picture
@christogrozev
Feb 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Yesterday, multiple Russian state media published an extremely shocking, even for Kremlin standards, essay: it presumed "Putin solved the Ukrainian question for ever" - i.e. it presumed Russia took over Ukraine and essentially annexed it into a forever-new--old-union. But...
..this essay was apparently written for a scenario where Russian armed forces had taken over Kyiv and subjugated the country...Which didn't actually happen. So, what did state news agency do? They deleted the article, as if the plan had never been published in the first place.
(if you click on the article in @skazal_on's link you will get a non-existing page...but here's the original, archived: web.archive.org/web/2022022605…)
Ok, one can assume this was just an editorial mistake that was caught early, and the essay did not reflect the State view..EXCEPT.. this same essay was carried on other state-run channels too, like @SputnikInt : uz.sputniknews.ru/20220226/nastu…
So indeed, this was meant to toast a Greater Russia outcome that never happened. Here's the plan the author had - and apparently, was seen as endorseable by state media: Image

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