did they mistake the moon for an ukrainian hospital or something?

"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," Roskosmos said in a statement.

It has ceased to exist, it is bereft of life! This is an ex-apparatus!

Russia isn't the Soviet Union, they clearly are unable to control the little technology they have left.

So the Special Lunar Operation didn't go as planned? I thought they said it would only take three days...

Any news on how the Indian one did?

I expected Russia’s to blow up on launch, so bully for them for getting it to the moon, but India was scheduled to launch one yesterday too, and I’m far more intrigued about how they faired.

Lol Russia rly became a laughing stock lately...

So the "let's give our people nothing and expect them to land on the moon" attitude doesn't work after all, how surprising!

Post-Soviet decline?

Their last attempt at a lander was in 1976 which is (checks notes) smack dab in the middle of the Soviet era ... and it crashed too.

Good thing russia is such a wealthy country, im sure they couldnt have spent the money any better. This is all just propaganda for the home front, so russia can depict themselves larger as they are and distract their own people from the ongoing decline

Did it fall out of a window?

The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

The USA hasn't tried one recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

The impact site should be given a suitable name to remember this event. Fascist's Folly? Dictator's Demise?

This sparks joy.

That was one very small step for mankind.

Karma!

This is my happy thought.