«The Kremlin said all four suspects directly involved in the attack have been arrested while trying to cross the border to Ukraine, along with several others.»
Kremlin's trolls and propagandists have been rather silent since the terror attack in the Crocus City Hall.
Even though some already started with the usual racist and/or anti-ukrainian narrative.
The rest of them is certainly waiting for clear directions from above, regarding what is the official "good word" to spread.
And then they will unleash their usual torrent of rubbish filth.
Back in 2020, #Slovakia’s then-Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini asked Viktor Orbán to act as a middleman between him and the #Kremlin. He aimed for an invitation to #Moscow just before Slovakia’s parliamentary election – hoping that it would appeal to the Slovak electorate. A piece of intelligence detailing the Slovak–Hungarian–Russian scheme was obtained by VSquare.
So, for the first time, #russia (through the mouth of the official #kremlin speaker) has directly stated that the purpose of the current war was and still is exclusively the destruction of the state of #Ukraine, the destruction of a sovereign country with the mandatory large-scale genocidal purges (murdering, filtration, deportation) of the civilian population
No more propaganda disguise. No more attempts to disguise ⏩
An #explosion rocked a concert hall in the Moscow region & several #gunmen opened fire on theatergoers Fri evening, acc/to Russian authorities & videos from the scene, a deadly attack >1 week after #Putin was re-elected.
The #Kremlin has yet to comment on the attack. But a speech by #Putin to #Russia’s domestic #intelligence agency, the #FSB, on Tues now looms large. He had dismissed the #UnitedStates#Embassy’s earlier #SecurityAlert about a possible #TerroristAttack in #Moscow as “obvious blackmail.” He had also claimed, w/o evidence, that #Ukraine was seeking to carry out attacks inside Russia “in places where people gather in large numbers.”
The attack on Fri in #Moscow, like a Jan assault in #Iran claimed by the grp, could prompt a reassessment of its ability to strike outside its home territory.
In addition to a public warning on Mar 7 about a possible attack, #US ofcls had privately told Russian ofcls about #intelligence pointing to an impending #attack.
After the death of his harshest critic in an Artic prison, #AlekseiNavalny, none of #Putin's other competitors posed much of a threat.
The #Kremlin had also outlawed all criticism of Putin or his war. As much as this would have made campaigning a bit difficult for opposition candidates, the Kremlin blocked them from running anyway.
"Chancellor Olaf Scholz is putting Germans and all Europeans in danger. His current policy seriously risks defeat in Ukraine, which would embolden Moscow and raise the likelihood of a wider war with Russia..."
Pro-#Kremlin outlets, some online blogs, and @Forbes magazine push unconfirmed --- and probably false --- claims that #Russia destroyed a US-made #Patriot air defense system for 1st time
America's five-alarm #nationalsecurity crisis: presumptive #GOP nominee for president looks to be compromised by a hostile foreign power via foreign entanglements
A horrific report by "The #Guardian" on the system based on fear, torture, murder and deportation that #Kremlin has established on the occupied territory of Zaporizhia in #Ukraine. Countless similar accounts have been reported by different outlets before, but this one paints a picture that leaves no doubt of the systemic #genocide based on #oppression, repopulation and forced subjugation. #PutinWarCriminal#Russia
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an Irish social media personality and propagandist, Chay #Bowes. He's best-known for his collaboration with a Russian #SVR operative @Dpol_un, and for spreading pro-#Kremlin propaganda while working as a correspondent for #RT.
Today, we had a largish raid group of 11+ to take on an #OriginFormePalkia in - it turned out to be a good raid.
Just for fun, my strongest ditto was backing up my mega salamence who was in #1 position. Turns out that the ditto's shapeshift did not cancel out my salamance's mega form which was a happy surprise 😁
The #Kremlin has relocated some of its #BlackSea assets from #Crimea to its #Novorossiysk base in Russia's #Krasnodar region, further from #Ukraine's coastline. Moscow is also thought to be establishing another base in #Abkhazia, a breakaway region internationally recognized as part of #Georgia.