Ukraine war: Moscow feels – ‘The Russia I knew no longer exists’ – BBC News

  • Steve Rosenberg
  • BBC Russian Editor-in-Chief

April 28, 2022

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Z can be seen everywhere on the streets of Moscow, the character has become a symbol of Russia’s “special military operation”

How has Moscow changed since Russia invaded Ukraine? The BBC Russian-speaking editor-in-chief, who has lived in Russia for 30 years, visited the familiar streets and sights of Moscow and felt the “Orwellian” twist there.

In Moscow, the capital of Russia, you don’t see shells going off. You also don’t see foreign troops besieging the city. The day-to-day life of ordinary people in Moscow simply cannot compare to the horrors of war suffered by Ukrainians.

At first glance, life here seems normal. As usual, traffic on Moscow’s Garden Ring Road is still congested. The subway station across from me was still pouring in.

But in reality, there is very little life here that can be described as normal. The so-called normalcy ended on February 24, when President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine for a “special military operation”.

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