Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin Warns Full War Economy Would ‘Kill the Country’

Rejecting mounting pressure for radical economic mobilization, Moscow’s mayor warns that dismantling the civilian sector in favor of a total war footing would lead to national collapse.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has publicly pushed back against calls to transition Russia into a full-scale war economy, warning that such a radical shift would be catastrophic for the nation’s stability. In a rare divergence from the hawkish rhetoric often surrounding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the long-time official argued that prioritizing military production at the total expense of the civilian sector would lead to the collapse of the country. “To kill the civilian economy is to kill the country,” Sobyanin stated, according to reports surfacing from regional and international outl…