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Russian federal channels ignored the missile attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Voronezh. Reports about the bombing were not included in the news bulletins of June 22 and 23 on Channel One, Rossiya 1, and NTV. The attack and the official report on its consequences from local authorities were not even mentioned in news announcements before the main release, as was previously the case, for example, with Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow.
On June 22, in the last press release of Channel One during the day, Voronezh was mentioned only in connection with the FSB statement that a “Ukrainian agent” had been arrested in the city.
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Russian pro-war bloggers on Telegram were outraged by the silence of federal television channels. “We spent an hour watching Russia 24. Starmer’s resignation, Britain’s national debt, sharks, neural networks, Iran, the USA, oil, the Unified State Examination, milk production, crops, rain in Moscow… Not a word about the missile attack on Voronezh,” wrote the authors of the Verum Regnum telegram channel (68.5 thousand subscribers).
Others pointed to Vladimir Putin, who was on June 22 in practice During the impact In Voronezh, he participated in commemorative events marking the 85th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, but did not comment on what happened. “Romanov Light” (148 thousand subscribers) noted that “there has not yet been any official reaction from the president – it is possible that they have not attended to the file yet.”
The Raybar channel on Telegram (1.5 million subscribers), which is very popular with the Russian Ministry of Defense, criticized residents of the city of Voronezh for publishing videos on social networks showing the consequences of the attack on the city. The channel’s writers devoted several lines to the strike itself and its consequences in the June 22 report.