Why are Russian fighter jets falling over Crimea?

The Su-27 and L-39 crashes of the Russian Air Force in Crimea and the Kuban that occurred during the day demonstrate the rapidly deteriorating situation in the "military space forces" of Russia, which is reeling under the pressure of the crisis.

Despite the drop in oil prices and world orders for kerosene, the looting of army budgets has reached the level of paralysis. While Putin is sending military virologists to Italy to sway public opinion on the issue of sanctions, the contagion has spread to military units. In the zone of special risk is the Russian occupation contingent in Crimea, where the coronavirus was introduced by Muscovites last week. In the Ukrainian sanatoriums looted by the Russians, no one will be cured in Crimea. A few more days — and, fearing the blockade of Moscow, thousands of infected people rush to Krym over the creaking bridge.

The simultaneous crashes of military aircraft are a bad omen for the Russian citizen who is beginning to realize the true scale of the pandemic. After all, hands trembling in a fever are not able to cope with steering wheels, switches and even keyboards, not to mention the power plants that are already working badly out of hand and standing in poisoned slurry for kilometers around the chemical plant.

The nullified dictator Putin Vladimir Putin is trying to cover himself with the epidemic as an excuse for his irreparable mistakes - but falling planes and tens of thousands of sick people abandoned without medical care and the basic right to the truth both in Russia and in the occupied territories - too clearly break this simple game. Like Rogozin's missiles, Russia's fighter jets will soon have to stand still.

But will the frightened obnulenets, hiding from society now in Sochi, then on Valdae, close the long-suffering bridge to Krym, for which the other day he awarded Rottenberg's favorite the Hero of Labor star, probably for a record in the field of cutting state orders? How many more planes will fall and how many more regions in the depths of Russia will bow to the pandemic?

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*Illustration by cartoonist Sergey Elkin for DW

Maksym Mykhaylenko, editor-in-chief of Newsky