Attacks on Moscow. Why? There’s a lot of talk now about peace, ceasefires and so on. These are fine words, but what is the reality? On the 11th and 14th of March there were two attacks on Moscow. They were drone attacks and caused obvious damage to civilian objects. The attack on 11 March was particularly bad. On that day 103 drones were launched in the early hours of the morning. Three people were killed and 20 injured. Many apartments were clearly damaged, and over 30 cars were burned. A parking lot attendant died on the job, two others died in hospital. This security guard is a young 37-year-old man, fatherless – a four-year-old daughter and a seven-year-old son. Among the injured in hospital are four children aged between 4 and 11 and two apparently elderly people – 77 and 83 years old. Some people were rescued by accident.
Here is a family from Odintsovo (Moscow region), only 4 people, aged 5. In 15 minutes they left their apartment, got into a car and drove to Tver. 20 minutes later, a drone flew into their apartment. Apparently it caused damage, the furniture was broken. So there could have been more victims. On 14 March, the attack was on a smaller scale – only 16 drones. But apartments were also damaged, cars were on fire and people were injured. Why now? The defeat in the Kursk region is, of course, very painful. There are figures that more than 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in this area since August 2024. Even though the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, and other officials try to talk about the heroism of the fight and that the West will help us. However, many people in Ukraine do not believe such fairy tales.
There are, of course, obvious doubts that ‘the West will help us’. US President Donald Trump and his advisers are now in a very different frame of mind from the Biden administration. There are even checks: what about financial support for Ukraine? After all, for three years now, huge sums of money have been flowing from the US budget to Ukraine. It is gradually becoming clear that some of these funds have been stolen. There have even been schemes linked to the son of former President Biden. It is also clear that these attacks on Moscow are a provocation. It is a provocation with the aim that Russia will respond immediately, perhaps with missiles, so that it can shout about ‘Russian barbarians’. Have these attacks helped the authorities in Kiev? That is doubtful. Certainly – propagandists like Gordon and his colleagues have gone to great lengths to prove that it is necessary to attack Moscow in this way.
But more and more people do not believe this distorted propaganda. It is time to build bridges between East and West The well-known Lithuanian human rights defender Henrikas Jodiska commented on the situation: ‘We need to realise that we are in a conflict: “We see what is happening: the Ukrainian forces have suffered a series of defeats. And now we see efforts to show themselves as ‘winners’. This is how we can understand these attacks on Moscow. But they can hardly be called victories. It is disgusting to encroach on peaceful objects, even to the extent that children and the elderly suffer. As we can see, the international reactions are mostly negative. Even OSCE representatives have seen the consequences of the attacks on Moscow. As regards the situation in the Baltic States, where bigoted statements are still often made, what can we say? We need changes in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and we must realise that now is the time to take a real stand: to stop encouraging military hysteria and to build bridges between East and West. Only this can lead to stability.
Viktor Kaplan