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[–] 90 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I love an Xmas good news story 😊

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  • [–] 59 points 10 months ago

    Hell yes, more of this to people who deserve it, especially Russian military officers who continue following Putins orders.

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  • [–] 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    "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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The Kremlin blamed Ukraine

    ...so it was probably the Kremlin.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Unless this guy was a dissenting general, doesn't make a lot of sense from a propaganda perspective. Too costly.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no, that's terrible. Just terrible. So sooooo very terrible. Sniff sniff.
    Anyways, anyone want pizza?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I mean…does anyone believe that it was Ukraine that did this, and not just Russia killing two birds with one stone?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If it was Russia, he'd likely have fallen out of a window?

    Bombs are messy and leave people talking

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    But this way they get to blame Ukraine

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    ... 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    What an odd development in window technology.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    It's just like a scene from Ментовские войны. Good job Ukraine!

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    What a strangely circuitous headline

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Seems like the car just did that.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Do the generals live in those style of apartments we see in the picture? I would think not.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Yeah, exactly my thought when I read what car he had! Strange.

    Upd: I checked address (Moscow, Yasnevaya str, 12k5) and this is new building that isn't very cheap. But definitely not to luxury.

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    That guy was a general and drove a freaking low end SUV. So fucking lame

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago*

    You need to push triangle a-bit sooner before the explosion noob.

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