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Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Russian general killed after bomb planted under his car explodes in Moscow

www.independent.co.uk

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Russian general killed after bomb planted under his car explodes in Moscow

www.independent.co.uk

Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • gribzy_uk@lemmy.world
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    I love an Xmas good news story 😊

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      C’mon, there is still time for another great guy

      • gribzy_uk@lemmy.world
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        Saving that one for the big day!

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

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    “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.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      I’m betting it was to prevent another Prigozhin incident

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      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

  • dan1101@lemmy.world
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    What a strange accident.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      Local kids playing with IEDs, probably, and they got careless. I can’t imagine what else it could be.

      • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
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        It’s clearly suicide.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      What do you mean?

      Cars just do that sometimes.

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

    • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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      Only if you’re paying.

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    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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      If it was Russia, he’d likely have fallen out of a window?

      Bombs are messy and leave people talking

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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        But this way they get to blame Ukraine

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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          … 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.

      • Cliff@lemmy.world
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        They have used bombs for false flag operations before.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

      • unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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        Firing missiles as commercial jets makes an even bigger mess.

      • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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        …talking about Ukraine, perhaps?

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    What an odd development in window technology.

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    Seems like the car just did that.

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

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    What a strangely circuitous headline

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    Nice.

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    Lol noob

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

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      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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    Thoughts and prayers

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

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