From our special correspondent in Volgograd
“All the targets have been eliminated, the adversary has been neutralized, the mission has been accomplished”
: we would like to verify the message trumpeted by loudspeaker, staring wide at the uniform blue sky of the province of Astrakhan.
But nothing to catch the eye, except maybe a tiny cloud of smoke, but so far away ... A few seconds before, the S-400 anti-aircraft defense missile was propelled towards its target, several tens of kilometers, incandescent tip in a white wake… Perched on a platform, around fifty journalists, mostly Russian, were invited to follow the great annual exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation entitled “Caucasus 2020”.
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