Ukraine’s stunning incursion into Russia is playing out in online videos

“The Russian government has tried its best to conceal the extent of its failure in Kursk from the Russian people, but modern-day communications technology, above all social media and the internet, has made that impossible,” said Rajan Menon, director of the grand strategy program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank. “Not only is Putin unable to control events on the ground in Kursk, he can’t control what Russians see and hear. The official rendition is flatly contradicted by social media, photographs and bloggers.”

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