Russia is trying to restore traffic as quickly as possible on the bridge that was damaged in the Crimean Peninsula, and already yesterday the government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta published that partial traffic on the bridge has already been resumed. The report in the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, on the other hand, indicates that there are still problems in resuming traffic on the bridge. On social media, Russia's response to the attack is being discussed, and Medvedev's statement from July of this year is being brought up again, in which he warns that an attack on the peninsula will bring doomsday on the attackers; Medvedev's more explicit statement regarding nuclear use, which is circulating on social media in Russia, It is from September 27, and in it the Tass agency quoted him as saying that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons.

A source in Russia told tipp that the solidarity among the Russian public, which was already reduced at the beginning of the war, continues to decrease, and there is nothing in public behavior that indicates a protest Putin and the Russian leadership, nor, on the contrary, overwhelming support for them. Mostly there is indifference and convergence, he said. To our question if there are signs of discord among the Russian leadership, he replied that if there is, none of it is leaking to the public, especially after the independent media outlets were restricted and some of them were closed. As a result of their closure, there is no real public discussion about the use of nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine, a reality that paves the way for the Russian leadership to act as it pleases in an uncritical environment. The independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, for example, clarifies on its homepage the meaning of an uncritical environment by saying that its journalists had to leave Russia to fulfill their duties: "The Russian government banned the existence of independent media. We had to leave our country to continue doing our work. We will continue to fight against warfare and dictatorship. We believe that freedom of speech is the most effective antidote to tyranny." Novaya Gazeta announced that it is establishing an editorial board for the newspaper in Europe. But until the free press in Russia succeeds in resuming sharp and consistent criticism of the Russian government, there is a vacuum in the public arena that allows Putin and Medvedev and their colleagues in the Russian oligarchy, a free hand, as that they asked themselves when they eliminated the independent press in Russia, with one difference: This time, following the addition of the atom to the basket of Russian reactions, this governmental behavior has the power to wreak another havoc, the third in the last hundred years, on Europe.