"Creative front-line brigades" created in Russia to raise morale of invaders

The Russian Defence Ministry has formed two front-line "creative brigades" with actors and musicians to provide "moral and psychological support" to the Russian invaders in Ukraine. 

Source: Kremlin-aligned news outlet RBK

Quote from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: "To maintain the political morale and the high psychological state of its participants, by the decision of the Minister of Defence, for the first time in the modern history of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Main Military and Political Directorate created two permanent front-line creative brigades, which consist of mobilised professional artists, as well as those who voluntarily entered military service."

Details: It is reported that the creative teams include musicians, drama actors, representatives of the Novaya opera and Sovremennik theatres, a professional artist, and circus and vocal performers. 

Among other tasks, the Ministry of Defence intend to collect army folklore and provide "cultural and artistic services for soldiers in the special operation zone".

One of the leaders of the first front-line creative brigade, Vladislav, said that when creating the brigades, they turned to the experience of the World War, saying that then there were about 2 thousand of them.

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