With the conflict in Ukraine settling into an interminable stalemate, what either side really needs to make a decisive breakthrough right now is an outright military miracle: so Russia’s propagandists have decided to artificially manufacture some.
Stories have circulated across Russian media of late about strange events in a prominent Moscow military infirmary, the Vishnevsky Hospital. The establishment has been visited by both Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, since the beginning of their so-called ‘Special Military Operation’ against Kyiv, to much sycophantic broadcasting fanfare. Yet the Vishnevsky Hospital has also lately received an even more illustrious visitor than even the President or the Patriarch: the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) herself!
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