China News Service, April 28 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) On the 25th, the Russian Federal Security Service announced a somewhat special news. It announced the destruction of a terrorist organization that planned to attack a well-known Russian journalist.
On the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized that after the "fiasco of propaganda in Russia", the West "turned to the murder of Russian journalists".
Russian high-ranking officials and journalists on the assassination list also pointed all this at Ukrainian President Zelensky.
What's so strange about this?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
【Assassination List Exposure】
According to the Russian Federal Security Service, it smashed a terrorist organization that was preparing to assassinate a Russian journalist and arrested six Russian neo-Nazis believed to be "under the command of Ukraine's State Security Service".
During the operation, the Russian side seized a batch of materials from the other side, including: simple homemade devices, 8 molotov cocktails, 6 Makarov pistols, 1 shotgun with sawn barrel, 1 RGD-5 grenade, and more than 1,000 bullets of different calibers. , fake Ukrainian passports with pictures of gang members, Nazi readings and signs, some drugs.
Russian media also listed an "assassination list" of the organization, including:
"Russia Today" International News Agency Director Dmitry Kiselev
· Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today International News Agency and RT Television
All-Russian State Television and Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Solovyov
All-Russian State Television and Broadcasting Corporation reporter Olga Skabeyeva
· All-Russian State Television and Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Yevgeny Popov and others.
Solovyov, a well-known Russian journalist and chairman of the Journalists Association, has hosted many popular news programs. He has been sanctioned by the West for promoting the Kremlin's position.
This time, while thanking the Russian Federal Security Service for "not letting his family suffer misfortune", he believes that the assassination plan against him is directly related to Ukrainian President Zelensky.
Solovyov introduced that he was Zelensky's "favorite" reporter, "for some reason, I didn't let him down", "Zelensky mentioned my name more than once ", and "has made direct threats".
Data map: The famous Russian journalist Solovyov.
Image source: Russian Satellite News Agency
The detained neo-Nazis, who had planned to blow up Solovyov's car in Moscow, admitted that they planned to assassinate a Russian journalist under the direction of the Ukrainian State Security Service and then planned to flee abroad, the FSB's public relations center said.
Kiselev himself also commented that "nonsense" is the method of Ukrainian journalism, and that journalists are "persecuted as a rule" in the country.
He referred to the death of Ukrainian journalist Olesi Buzina, which he believed to be a murder that "is still at large."
The incident Kiselev was referring to was the killing in Kyiv in March 2015 of the well-known pro-Russian journalist Buzina in Ukraine.
Just a day before his death, Kalashnikov, a former member of Ukraine's pro-Russian Party of Regions, was killed at his home.
Further on, two Party of Region MPs and former MPs committed suicide and one former MP died of gunshot wounds.
A series of events had a huge repercussions in Ukraine. Although the Poroshenko government immediately ordered an investigation at that time, the Ukrainian opposition blamed the death of these people on the government.
The Ukrainian hacker group CyberBerkut also revealed that it obtained information that the Ukrainian National Security Agency "may be involved in the killing of these opposition politicians and journalists."
[Putin named the West]
At an expanded meeting of all the heads of the Russian Federal Prosecutor's Office, Putin said we know the names of conspirators from Western institutions who conspired to direct neo-Nazis in an attempt to "divide Russia from within."
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The CIA, the Ukrainian National Security Service—two familiar names emerged.
Putin was ruthless, and directly named the two as "the mastermind behind the scenes".
Putin said that in the field of information, the West "suffered a disastrous defeat" in Russia, so it "turned to terrorist activities and prepared to murder our journalists". "Of course, they will try to deny it now, but the facts and evidence are irrefutable."
He also stressed that all conspiracies "will inevitably end in failure."
Someone wants to deal with Russian journalists the same way they "treated" Ukrainian journalists?
Russia will never allow it, let alone Putin from the KGB.
Putin has demanded that the necessary evidence be gathered to file a lawsuit, including in an international court.
Russian State Duma Chairman Volodin said bluntly that the incident proved the "correctness and timeliness" of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, and "Zelensky should be held responsible" for this.
The homepage of the Ukrainian National Security Service website issued a call to "jointly defend Ukraine".
Image source: The official website of the Ukrainian National Security Bureau.
In response to Russia's allegations, the Ukrainian National Security Agency responded on the 25th, denying that it planned to kill Soloviev or that it was related to the organization involved.
However, according to recent Ukrainian informants, about 20 members of the British Special Air Service (SAS) have entered Ukraine to guide intelligence work.
Members of the agency are regarded as one of the most capable experts in the world for organizing coups, assassinating politicians, and preparing for terrorist attacks.
Coincidentally, it is not a book. Some time ago, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov once clearly accused Zelensky of "Ritong the British intelligence agency", saying that he had a private meeting with the head of the British intelligence agency during his visit to London. "This is unique in the world." .
Azarov believes that Ukraine "was placed under the 'guardian' of British intelligence, and MI6 was running Ukraine closely and seriously".
["Rashomon" frequently appears]
In fact, apart from the fact that the truth of the Ukrainian journalist Buzina's case has not yet been revealed, since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the undercurrents outside the frontal conflict have never stopped.
For example, on March 5, local time, Ukrainian representative Denis Kireyev, who appeared at the scene of the first round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations, died in Kyiv.
Kireyev's name was not on the negotiating delegation's list, but the camera did capture him at the scene.
The red box is Denis Kireyev, the Ukrainian representative who appeared at the first round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
Source: China-Singapore Video Screenshot.
Ukrainian media and some parliamentarians believe that Kireyev was suspected of treason and was killed for resisting arrest; however, the General Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense stated that Kireyev was an official of the bureau and "died in the line of duty while performing special tasks."
What the truth is, there is no way to know.
At the end of March, foreign media such as Reuters and the Wall Street Journal broke the news again, and the Russian billionaire Abramovich and some Ukrainian negotiators who helped Russia-Ukraine negotiation experienced "red eyes, tears and pain, and peeling of the body. ” and other symptoms, suspected of being poisoned, and even porphyrins and organic phosphates, which are usually used in chemical weapons.
The Kremlin and U.S. officials have denied the incident.
The Russian side claimed that the relevant reports were part of an "information war"; the US side believed that the reason for Abramovich and others' illness was "environmental factors".
[Russian oligarchs "fallen"]
Compared with some Russian oligarchs, Abramovich is actually lucky.
According to the US "Newsweek" statistics, since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on February 24, five Russian oligarchs have died.
Take a look at these cases:
· On February 25, near St. Petersburg, Russia, Tyulyakov, vice president of the unified settlement center of Gazprom, died.
According to a note next to his body, investigators determined that he had "hanged himself".
· On February 28, in Surrey, England, Russian oil and gas oligarch Watford was found hanged in his mansion.
British police said the cause of death was "not suspicious".
· On March 24, in the Russian city of Novgorod, Russian billionaire Melnikov, who worked for a medical company, died in a luxury apartment. His wife and two sons also died in the apartment.
Investigators said that Melnikov "killed his wife and children and then committed suicide."
· April 18, Moscow, former Kremlin and State Duma officials, former deputy head of Gazprom Bank Avayev died in a luxury apartment, his wife and young daughter also died.
The police believe that Awayev "first shot his wife and daughter, and then committed suicide."
·On April 19, Catalonia, Spain, Russian oligarch Protosenya hanged in his rented mansion. His wife and daughter also died there, with blood-stained daggers and axes beside them.
Police did not clarify the cause of death, but there are indications that Protosenya "hanged himself after killing his wife and daughter."
The British "Mirror" reported the death of Russian billionaire Protosenya and his family.
Image source: Screenshot of the "Mirror" report.
Overall, these incidents have three things in common:
First, these people are mainly oligarchs in the Russian natural gas industry and have abundant resources;
Second, many people have held important positions in the Russian government and are in key positions in controlling the lifeblood of the energy industry;
Third, the cause of death was suicide, and the family members of several of them also died.
As for the similarity in several cases, although there is no conclusion that there is anything suspicious, it has caused huge controversy on the Internet.
For now, the truth remains elusive.
On the other hand, the Russian oligarchs have suffered heavy losses recently under the sanctions of the United States and the West.
According to statistics, the total wealth of the Russian rich has dropped from more than 600 billion US dollars to more than 350 billion US dollars, and the wealth has shrunk by nearly 42%.
Many countries in the United States and Europe also announced the confiscation of a number of Russian billionaires’ overseas luxury homes, yachts and other assets. For example, Abramovich, as mentioned above, was forced to transfer the Premier League giant Chelsea Football Club, which has been in charge of the Premier League for nearly 20 years.
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