Usually reserved guests on Russian state television are no longer hiding their exasperation—and very likely their fear—as their country is forced to face the tidal wave of disease and despair that is the COVID-19 pandemic. And the focus of much of their anger? Kremlin grandstanding with shipments of supplies to the United States in so-far forlorn hopes that the PR stunt will encourage the Americans to lift sanctions.
The Daily Beast: Russian state media try to clean up Putin’s coronavirus aid stunt
Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing protective gear visits a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka in Moscow on March 24, 2020. (Photo by Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP)
