https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/436dcd09-fb00-4adc-abaa-e20523ad0ffd For years, many Russians were able to treat the war against Ukraine as something distant, happening on television far away from their homes and everyday lives. Now, that comfortable illusion is becoming much harder to hold on to. In Moscow and Sochi, drone strikes and air raid alerts have brought the reality of the war much closer to home for ordinary Russians. For years, Kremlin propaganda presented the war as glorious, necessary and safely removed from Russian daily life. But it becomes a very different experience when explosions sound outside your window. Join a new episode of Break The Fake with Benjamin Lee to see the reactions of Russians as the war they were told was happening far away suddenly arrives on their doorstep – and why the Kremlin's comfortable distancing is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - The end of the "no war" illusion 01:32 - Air raid alerts across Russia 03:24 - The war reaches ordinary Russians 04:31 - Absurd claims in Russian media 07:46 - Putin's "mathematical masterpiece" 🔴 Watch our 24/7 livestream - https://youtube.com/live/9RY46AUtIl4 Bringing you all the latest daily news and updates, TVP World is Poland's first English-language channel where you can find world news as seen from the Polish perspective and the latest news from the CEE region. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://tvpworld.com/ https://www.facebook.com/tvpworldcom https://twitter.com/TVPWorld_com https://www.instagram.com/tvp_world/ https://www.threads.net/@tvp_world https://bsky.app/profile/tvpworld.bsky.social https://www.tiktok.com/@tvpworld.com https://t.me/tvp_world #Russia #War #Putin Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:10:29 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.echelon.pl https://video.echelon.pl/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/436dcd09-fb00-4adc-abaa-e20523ad0ffd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.echelon.pl/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.