Hmmm. Critic of how the war was being conducted. (Edit: Or big supporter? being reported differently in different places)
At least he did not fall out of a window. Putin’s goons are getting more creative.
From what I can gather he supported the war, but not the results the Russian military has achieved.
Irony, of a sort,
Digging trenches. Sigh.
In the Beeb article:
He had reported from the Ukraine front line and gained particular notoriety last year after posting a video filmed inside the Kremlin in which he said: “We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone as necessary. Just as we like it.”
Sounds like a real peach.
Wrong thread
and then some.
There is precedent for that. Japan traditionally practiced an entirely different philosophy of defensive fortifications then the West did. In the West the point of a castle was to be as absolutely inviolable as possible. In Japan, the point was to make attack seem inviting while luring the assailants into carefully prepared kill zones.
or, cobbler
Yeah, that’s where I first heard about it. Dumb of me not to assume the Dope was familiar with it.
And now they’ve arrested a young female Russian antiwar activist for the blast. Two birds with one stone for the FSB.
Watched a video this morning showing a large building in Bakhmut that Ukrainians ‘retreated’ from and abandoned. In fact, the entire building had been mined by the Ukrainians. They waited until the Russians moved in to occupy it and then blew it up. They’ve also done this with several other buildings where they waited for Russians to take up positions in them and then called in pre-registered artillery missions on these key buildings.
I didn’t see this mentioned upthread: leaked FSB report details plans for “total cleansing” of Ukraine:
Not surprising at all. Which is why I don’t understand the people who want Ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table. Doing so would essentially be acquiescing to their own genocide.
Putin: “I don’t understand why they won’t negotiate with us. There would be so much less bloodshed. Only Ukranian blood.”
Seems like a slam dunk on Trepova. She made the sacrifice to take this guy out.
I had not heard of the movie until now.
Doesn’t really make any sense. This guy was vile, sure, but he wasn’t of any particular importance. The Russian anti-war cause isn’t furthered in any way by murdering this guy. It’d be like an anti-Trump activist murdering Nick Fuentes.
My money is on the FSB.
She claims she had no idea about the bomb, that she was given the statuette to pass on to the victim.
I have no more info either way, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she was telling the truth.
From BBC
“The cafe, Street Food Bar No 1 near the River Neva, was once owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin - who runs Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group which has taken part in much of the fighting in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine”.
"Prigozhin paid tribute to Tatarsky in a late-night video which he declared was filmed from the town hall in Bakhmut. He displayed a flag which he said had the words “in good memory of Vladlen Tatarsky.”