'This is a game that the #FSB has been playing for many years' political analyst tells FRANCE24
Three men have been held after five coffins draped with the French flag were found near the Eiffel Tower. Political analyst Alexandra Filippenko tells FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson that she would be extremely surprised if Russia was not behind the latest stunt. She adds that Russia 'is trying to muddy the waters, they want chaos, this is the main plan'. #Ukraine#France#Russia
The recent arrests of five top Russian military officers are likely just the first of dozens of military figures who will be jailed in a sweeping purge by the security services.
“There is a fierce cleanup underway. The #FSB is mopping up [former Defense Minister Sergei] #Shoigu's team. It’s to be expected. This kind of operation can only be carried out with approval at the very top [of the country's leadership]”
"FSB Launches Sweeping Purge of Military Elites With Kremlin’s Approval
The purge of top officers is the result of infighting between the #FSB and the military over the failure to capture Kyiv and competition for defense funds."
At 5 a.m. #Russian forces tried to break through #Ukraine defensive line in #Kharkiv region using armored vehicles, the first attempt to invade this area in 2 years.
#Zelenskyy fired the head of personal security, Serhiy Rud, yesterday, following reports of an attempted assassination of the the #President by men in his inner circle acting under directions from the #fsb There was no reason stated publicly for his removal.
The Security Service of #Ukraine claimed on May 7 that it had uncovered a network of #Russia's Federal Security Service (#FSB) agents who were preparing the assassination of President Volodymyr #Zelensky and other high-ranking officials in Ukraine.
Two colonels of Ukraine's State Security Administration (UDO) accused of leaking classified information to Russia were reportedly detained.
Reading various news about russian secret operations in europe it's clear there is already a covert war going on, on par with the cold war of the 80s it seems, with GRU and FSB involved in all kind of operations. #russia#GRU#FSB#spying#disinformation#geopolitics@geopolitics
Former Austrian intelligence official Egisto Ott, now taken into custody, supplied information to Jan #Marsalek on the address and security arrangements of Christo #Grozev, an investigative journalist resident in #Vienna who - via @Bellingcat - exposed #Russia’s attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and other #GRU operations. Marsalek used the info to co-ordinate an elite “seal” squad of #FSB agents who broke into Grozev’s apartment and stole a laptop + USB sticks.
Former #Wirecard-CEO Jan Marsalek and a former officer of the Austrian security service gave the Russian #FSB a laptop with the German encryption system SINA: https://archive.is/ClNSz
Diese geknackten Chats zwischen Jan #Marsalek of #Wirecard Fame und seinen bulgarischen Geheimdiensthelferlein sind wohl recht ergiebig. Es ist wohl mindestens ein strengst geheimer Laptop eines #NATO-Landes von Marsalek & Team von Berlin über Istanbul nach Moskau geschafft worden. Zum #FSB .
Within an hour of last week’s deadly attack on Moscow's #CrocusCityHall, a blame game started. #TheGlobalJigsaw tracks the narratives and the counter-narratives underpinned by generous doses of disinformation.
#Russian officials, state media and pro-#Kremlin channels pointed the finger of blame at #Ukraine , downplaying or ignoring the Islamic State #ISIS group’s claim of responsibility.
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The false flag operation theory goes back to the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings which some say had been orchestrated by the #FSB to justify the war in #Chechnya
In the meantime, the Islamic State group #ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The group said #Russia was targeted because of its past and ongoing "war on Muslims" in various countries and that it was a present for #Putin on his reelection.
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...wenn man wie #Putin im #FSB groß geworden ist. Er kennt sicherlich auch die jahrtausendealten Grundprinzipien des chinesischen Generals #SunTsu zur #Unterwanderung des Feindes:
Kurzum, der Westen muss endlich aufwachen. Gewinnt die Ukraine nicht bis zur Amtseinführung des nächsten US-Präsidenten den Krieg, könnte es für die europäischen #NATO-Staten im kommenden Jahr plötzlich sehr düster...
#POTUS Joe Biden said on Fri the US will impose costs for Russia's "appalling attempts" to use Americans as bargaining chips in a stmnt to mark the 1-yr anniversary of WSJ reporter Gershkovich's arrest in Russia.
Gershkovich, 32, was the 1st US #journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the #ColdWar when he was detained by the #FSB on Mar 29 last yr.
Putin lied about the 1999 apartment building bombings, 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, 2004 Beslan school siege, murders of Politkovskaya in 2006, Magnitsky in 2009, Nemtsov in 2015, and many other critics, Russian soldiers occupying #Crimea, the downing of MH17, and plans to invade Ukraine, to name a few lies on a very, very long list.
Putin is a pathological liar. Including now that he is desperately attempting to link Ukraine or other Western nations to the mass shooting near Moscow, despite the fact that there is no evidence to support such claims.
Do not let Putin and his henchmen dupe you. Their only goal is to motivate more Russians to die in their senseless and criminal war against #Ukraine, as well as to instill even more hatred for other nations, not just #Ukrainians, but the entire West.
"Protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine - sometimes even just holding a blank sheet of paper - will get you arrested within seconds in Moscow, but 4 armed terrorists with automatic weapons can rampage through a mall, killing probably more than 100 people, causing a fire which even requires wildfire equipment to be deployed and then successfully “escape” in one of the world most heavily surveilled cities?"
The #terrorists are Russian citizens. There are questions that need answers: why there were armed people walking in the center of #Moscow; why the metal detectors were turned off and there was no perimeter security; why the #FSB district department, whose office is located only 5 minutes, just meters from #CrocusCityHall, did not react in any way for 2-3 hours; why the special forces arrived on site after an hour +; why the warning about possible terrorist attacks was ignored; why there was no intelligence work; why the terrorists calmly left the building cordoned off by security forces and disappeared?
Russian authorities detained 11 people, state media reported Saturday, after gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow in a grisly attack that left at least 115 people dead.
Russian agencies appeared to suggest the attack was linked to Ukraine EVEN THOUGH the Islamic State group claimed responsibility in a statement.
Russia's FSB: Moscow shooting attackers had contacts in Ukraine
> Four suspected perpetrators of a deadly attack near #Moscow on Friday were heading towards #Russia's border with #Ukraine when they were apprehended early on Saturday, and had contacts on the Ukrainian side, Interfax quoted the #FSB
> The FSB said the attack had been carefully planned.
> Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Friday that Kyiv had nothing to do with Friday's attack
SBU says it caught FSB saboteurs trying to blow up railroad in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast (kyivindependent.com)
The Prosecutor General's Office added that the two suspects were Ukrainian citizens.