Many Kremlin insiders reject Vladimir Putin's claim of Ukraine's connection to the recent Moscow terror attack, Bloomberg reported.
  • Putin’s inner circle isn’t buying his claim that Kyiv is connected to the Moscow terror attack, Bloomberg reported.
  • Putin continues to say that Ukraine had a role in the attack, which was claimed by ISIS-K.
  • He thinks that pushing the theory is beneficial for galvanizing support for his war, per Bloomberg.

Many Kremlin insiders disagree with President Vladimir Putin’s claims that Ukraine may be connected to last Friday’s terror attack in Moscow, Bloomberg reported.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45•8 months ago

    Putin’s apartment bombings in the late 90s were just an all around jaw-droppingly brazen false flag. This bit in particular always gets me:

    A suspicious device resembling those used in the bombings was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on 22 September.[3][4] On 23 September, Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War.[5] Three FSB agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[6] The next day, FSB director Nikolay Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar, and freed the FSB agents involved.[7]

    Because the FSB ran a terrorism training op using a package of sugar as a bomb stand-in days after multiple bombings occurred all over the country. And they totally didn’t need anyone else to corroborate that - they’re the FSB, of course they’re trustworthy.

    suuuuuuuuure.

    • @Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16•8 months ago

      I appreciate your citations!

      In a documentary I watched on the subject, an “expert” stated that local police had tested the device tested before the FSB grown ups showed up and their findings that they WERE explosives, not sugar.

      I don’t have a definitive source, but it’s my understanding that the “sugar” line actually was actually directly disputed by initial findings.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16•8 months ago

        Full disclosure: I literally just copied part of the wiki text lol

        And yeah - I am sure the local cop who tested the explosives had a very long and productive life for the next week, at which point he probably fell off a balcony onto several bullets, head-first.