In the footage, Russian soldiers get off a truck in an unspecified war zone, carry the components for a large portable cannon that is mounted in record time at the front: it is – so in , spread on Moscow’s social networks – a “tactic for anti-tank missile systems, to destroy Ukrainian positions”.
In Russian propaganda videos the alleged modernity and effectiveness of Putin’s arsenal, a sometimes striking contrast with what appeared in the Victory Day parade on May 9: with the only tank that paraded on Red Square, the “legendary ” Soviet T34 – museum piece – which made a decisive contribution to the defeat of Hitler’s divisions, but 78 years ago.
