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RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE
ISRAEL KILLS HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER IN BEIRUT: FIRST STRIKE SINCE CEASEFIRE SHATTERS THE CALM
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DOMINANT ANGLE
Moscow lets the images speak: ruined shops, blood on sidewalks, witnesses swearing to continue the resistance
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
ANALYSIS
Moscow covers the Beirut strike in two distinct registers. RT publishes footage of damage in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood — a market struck, several residential buildings reduced to rubble, a shop with 'carpentry and clothing stores that contained no weapons or anything else' according to an eyewitness who 'swears to continue the resistance even if we are all killed.' Moscow uses these images to illustrate what it presents as a Western double standard: striking Lebanese civilian infrastructure is tolerated, striking Ukrainian infrastructure is condemned. Moscow Times takes a more factual angle but the implicit framing is clear — Israel strikes 'despite the ceasefire' and 'despite the deal Washington is trying to conclude with Tehran.' For Russia, this confirms that the US does not control its allies, that American commitments mean nothing as security guarantees, and that the liberal international order Washington claims to uphold is a fiction.
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