As of: January 23, 2024, 5:16 a.m
By: Christian Stör
Comments
Press
Split
The Moscow River is covered in ice in early January.
In Russia people are freezing.
Putin is not putting the money into the Heinz network, but into the war in Ukraine.
© Vera Savina/afp
Extreme frost paralyzes Russia's heating system.
Instead of investing, Putin is focusing on military goals.
A video illustrates the consequences.
Moscow – The discontent in Russia is getting louder.
The target of the anger is none other than Vladimir Putin.
The background is the icy winter nights, which pose major problems for the Russian people.
Across the country, heating systems fail at temperatures of up to minus 30 degrees.
Instead of investing in the dilapidated district heating network, which is more than 180,000 kilometers long, Russia's resources continue to flow primarily into the military and the Ukraine war, which began almost two years ago.
As Die
Welt
reports, the Russian population is suffering from the extreme temperatures because the outdated heating network can no longer meet the demands of winter.
Criticism of President Vladimir Putin is now increasing.
A video is now making the rounds on social media that shows an older Russian woman openly expressing her frustration.
Unfiltered anger from a victim: Woman expresses anger at Putin in video
The video shows an 82-year-old expressing her despair over the current situation and her anger at Putin.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko shared the clip on the online platform X.
“I would tell him to fuck off!
Yes, in the situation we are in now, there is nothing else to do, nothing.
Everything is at zero,” she says in the video.
She remembers the war times, the hunger, and remarks that she is just as hungry today as she was back then.
Just last week, a mechanical defect in freezing temperatures led to the loss of heating and water for tens of thousands of people in Moscow.
Some desperate citizens then described in various videos how they tried to warm their homes with gas stoves, heaters and “whatever we can find”.
Russia is freezing – money is flowing into the Ukraine war
The war in Ukraine is not only taking a heavy toll on the lives of millions of people in Russia, it is also increasingly putting a strain on the Russian economy.
According to
Business Insider
, Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian Central Bank official, pointed out that Russia continues to maintain high military spending while other sectors are neglected.
My news
At Russia's border: Major NATO maneuver reveals Norway as a weak point
Putin has troops relocated - Russia is withdrawing units from Belarus
New survey hammer: Wagenknecht party swallows the traffic lights in the east
Improvement for the Challenger 3: New hardkill system is intended to eliminate the danger of drones
Russia's “elite troops” apparently refuse to read Putin's Ukraine strategy
Up to 34 percent in the East: Map shows how strong the AfD is in your federal state
Meanwhile, Reuters
news agency
reported that the defense budget accounts for almost a third of Russia's total spending for 2024, while social spending such as salaries, pensions and benefits only takes up about a fifth of the budget.
(cs)
Editor Christian Stör wrote this article and then used an AI language model for optimization at his own discretion. All information has been carefully checked.
Find out more about our AI principles here.