{"id":49391,"date":"2026-07-27T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=49391"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:38:55","slug":"how-russias-navy-day-became-a-display-of-fear-and-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/how-russias-navy-day-became-a-display-of-fear-and-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia\u2019s navy day became a display of fear and weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s russian Navy Day turned out to be even more embarrassing than expected. Instead of a grand spectacle showcasing military power, russians were presented with a pale imitation of a celebration held behind closed doors, featuring putin posing in front of a painted submarine backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Residents of st. petersburg were hardly in a festive mood either. The dictator\u2019s visit to the city was accompanied by a near-total mobile internet and communications blackout, as well as widespread street closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The \u201ccelebratory\u201d atmosphere also disappointed sailors, who wandered across an empty Palace Square, puzzled by the absence of spectators. Even pro-war Z-bloggers did not hide their frustration, describing the event as \u201ca parade in a garage cooperative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event became one of the clearest indicators of what the war has done to russia. The russian navy \u2014 whose supposed might propaganda spent decades promoting to the world\u2014is now unable to safely sail even along the Neva River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s russian Navy Day turned out to be even more embarrassing than expected. Instead of a grand spectacle showcasing military power, russians were presented with a pale imitation of a celebration held behind closed doors, featuring putin posing in front of a painted submarine backdrop. \u25ab\ufe0f Residents of st. petersburg were hardly in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49394,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions\/49394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}