The Streets Of Downtown Moscow Are Empty

The Letter Z with "We don't leave our people behind". Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, St. Petersburg. MT 

Alexandra Vladimirova, Moscow Times: Closed Shops, Zs, Green Ribbons: Russia’s Post-Invasion Reality 

The bustling center of downtown Moscow that was once full of shoppers and tourists is quieter and emptier since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the elite GUM shopping mall on Red Square, outlets for Western designer brands like Fendi and Louis Vuitton have shuttered because of corporate opposition to the war. Clothes, jewelry and other goods can still be seen inside the locked shops. But the mall’s nearly vacant corridors are still brightly lit and soundtracked by loud music. 

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WNU Editor: My cousins tell me that the downtown centers of both St. Petersburg and Moscow are dead. The only stores that are open are grocery shops/supermarkets, convenience stores, and pharmacies. Foreign goods are in short supply, but everything else is readily available.

Outside of the city centers the malls in the suburbs are very busy. 

I have also been told that support for the war is very strong. Everyone is expecting the war in Ukraine to get worse in the coming weeks and months.