“Blamed Ukraine.” Ok so now we know it was a political assassination by the Kremlin.
With that out of the way, I get this feeling that typically it’s a bad idea to kill your military leaders. I don’t know how the military works in Russia, but given that an oligarch was able to march his PMC to Moscow with no opposition makes me wonder if the Kremlin has any capacity for reasoning over reaction.
I’m betting it was to prevent another Prigozhin incident
They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree
The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.
Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all
I love an Xmas good news story 😊
C’mon, there is still time for another great guy
Saving that one for the big day!
Oh no, that’s terrible. Just terrible. So sooooo very terrible. Sniff sniff.
Anyways, anyone want pizza?Only if you’re paying.
Hell yes, more of this to people who deserve it, especially Russian military officers who continue following Putins orders.
Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in April when a car exploded next to his house in Moscow. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine, which did not comment.
Ukraine not even bothering with a response, just silently crippling our enemy’s offense. Mature af
The Kremlin blamed Ukraine
…so it was probably the Kremlin.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I believe this is more as Propaganda direct from Putin.
Unless this guy was a dissenting general, doesn’t make a lot of sense from a propaganda perspective. Too costly.
It’s not like they’ve been bringing home the bacon. Would not surprise me if they’ve been telling lies about how well the campaign is going.
No matter who did it, this is the correct response. If they aren’t responsible, other Russian leaders will still suspect they are and live in fear of it happening to them. If they are responsible, they’ll still suspect that it was the Kremlin, or someone else in Russia, and live in fear. Ukraine taking responsibility or not reduces the amount of fear they might have.
Get real, there is a 100% chance this is just the Kremlin dealing with difference of opinion and this guy was smart enough to not stay above the ground floor of a hotel.
What an odd development in window technology.
I mean…does anyone believe that it was Ukraine that did this, and not just Russia killing two birds with one stone?
If it was Russia, he’d likely have fallen out of a window?
Bombs are messy and leave people talking
They have used bombs for false flag operations before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
But this way they get to blame Ukraine
… and? What is the Kremlin going to do, declare war?
Military officers are legitimate targets. Either Ukrainian Special Ops performed yet another successful mission within Moscow, or Russia unlawfully merced one of its own generals. Either way it’s a bad look for Russia.
Firing missiles as commercial jets makes an even bigger mess.
…talking about Ukraine, perhaps?
What a strange accident.
What do you mean?
Cars just do that sometimes.
Local kids playing with IEDs, probably, and they got careless. I can’t imagine what else it could be.
It’s clearly suicide.
Seems like the car just did that.
Lol noob
Thoughts and prayers
Nice.
It’s just like a scene from Ментовские войны. Good job Ukraine!
What a strangely circuitous headline
You need to push triangle a-bit sooner before the explosion noob.
