Ukrainian drone strikes, particularly on refineries ten miles from the Kremlin, have ended Moscow's ability to pretend the Ukraine war wasn't happening. This development, marked by "black, oily rain" falling on the capital, has led to Russians mocking President Putin online for discussing a "multipolar world" while his city burned, effectively cracking the "Putin myth."
Putin's "Special Military Operation," launched in February 2022 to swiftly seize Ukraine, instead became a protracted conflict. The Kremlin previously obscured the war's reality by conscripting manpower from poorer, far-off regions rather than major cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg. However, regular drone strikes on major Russian cities, along with the assassination of Army Generals and widespread petrol shortages due to Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil industry, make the conflict's proximity undeniable.
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