23 minutes agoMoscow accuses Kiev of attempting to oust Putin helicopter
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Russian armed forces accuse Ukraine of deliberately attempting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin by bringing down the helicopter he conducted an inspection last Tuesday in the Kursk region. According to the testimony of the commander of the Russian Armed Forces Air Defense Division in this region, Yuri Dashkin, of [...]
According to testimony by the commander of the Russian Armed Forces Air Defense Division in the region, Yuri Dashkin, who spoke to the cameras of a Russian journalist, Kiev significantly increased the intensity of the attack at the very moment of the president's flight, which was in the midst of the antiaircraft battle.
“From May 20th to May 22nd Alleged Russian Air Force officer in a video distributed by all Russian media and RT, media near the Kremlin the enemy has tried to completely hit Russian territory in fear. In this period, air defence has destroyed 1,177 enemy drones. Just when President Putin was in the Kursk region, an unprecedented attack of fear was carried out. Air defence in the area destroyed 46 of them. I note that the intensity of the attack during the flight of the High Commander's helicopter to the territory of the Kursk region has increased significantly: we were conducting an antiaircraft battle and at the same time protected the skies for presidential helicopter”.
According to Dashkin, the <x0detyre was successfully carried out: the drone attack was backed down and all air targets fell. The president's helicopter was at that moment in the center of the air defence battle of”.
Currently, there are no official reactions from Ukraine, but this country's media have been handling the news with irony: the diggers have analysed social media reactions, saying that “as themselves Russians do not believe this Kremlin story, portraying Putin with Superman's costume that handles flying through drones<1>.
Indeed, fears are not the most appropriate means to bring down a helicopter, and the charge to Kiev serves more Russian propaganda: it supports the version under which the Ukrainian government and European partners claim to want peace, but in reality require escalation of conflict (the same charge Ukrainian propaganda addresses the Kremlin).
The claim that Ukrainian intelligence has been able to identify the flight with the Russian president aboard, despite strong security measures for such a delicate mission, should be primarily disturbing for Russian leaders themselves. However, the context in which the inspection took place was difficult: in the Kursk region, where Ukrainians have launched a second counterensive in recent weeks after the main August of last day, fears and artillery clashes occur every day. Thus, being in the midst of a fearful attack is not an impossible scenario, despite any measures taken. But it is quite another to be believed in a deliberate and conscious attack by Ukrainian commandos.
The hypothesis for an attempt to kill the Russian president who, according to the Geneva Convention, would be a legitimate objective as High Commander of the Armed Forces of a state that took Ukraine three years ago is a difficult move to imagine because of the serious consequences it would bring. Much more at a political point when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly invited Putin ʹ so far without success in a direct confrontation to resolve the conflict. We remember that even in May two years ago, the Kremlin accused Gur's military secret services in Kiev of an attempt to kill Putin with a threat. The deputy head of Gur accepted é during an interview for “Republica”, quoted later by the international media, as viewing Putin as a target. /Periscope/
