The Russian military is reportedly cutting down trees in 'protected nature zones' to make way for air defense systems in residential areas of Moscow.
The Russian government is installing missile defense systems in Moscow in an attempt to convince its citizens that Ukraine represents a threat to the motherland, according to the Institute of the Study of War .
"Continued Russian efforts to portray the war in Ukraine as existential to Russian domestic security by establishing additional air defense installations in areas that will never see hostilities is reportedly sparking internal backlash," the ISW said.from the independent Russian news website The Insider, which reported earlier this week on the effort to install S-400 air defense systems in residential areas of Moscow.
However, four out of nine system launchers were later put into a vertical"combat position"—something that would not happen if they were merely being stored, according to The Insider. Residents of Moscow are reportedly hesitant to mention the destruction online over fears that they could be prosecuted under Russian laws that prohibit so-called"Meanwhile, ISW said that an effort to use utility funds to install air defense systems for Ukrainian"terrorist attacks" was scrapped this week due to public outrage in the Bryansk Oblast, about 300 miles southwest of Moscow.
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