At a Monday meeting at the Moscow Attorney General’s Office, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a shocking accusation, announcing the arrest of several accused murderers who allegedly planned to kill prominent Russian state television journalist and ardent Putin loyalist Vladimir Solovyov. murder.
“This morning, FSB bodies halted the activities of a terrorist group that was planning an attack and murder of a prominent Russian TV journalist,” Putin said, claiming the plot was orchestrated by “senior diplomatic officials in Europe and the United States” which aspires to divide Russian society and to “destroy Russia from within”. Putin claimed that the West’s failure to prevail on the information front of the war in Ukraine has prompted it “to resort to terror, to arrange the killings of our journalists”. He added: “We know the names of the sponsors of Western intelligence services, primarily – of course – the United States CIA, which cooperates with the Ukrainian security services.”
Russia’s infamous FSB counterintelligence service has released video of the arrests, as well as so-called “behind the scenes” footage of agents searching for and seizing property allegedly found in the suspects’ apartment, which was captured in its entirety. posted by the state media RIA Novosti on Telegram. The footage showed an array of items lined up in the apartment, including a photo of Adolf Hitler, six immaculate-looking Ukrainian passports, a blonde wig and brand new T-shirts decorated with swastikas that appeared to show new folds from recent shipment.
But the seemingly brand new items weren’t the only curious elements seen in the FSB video footage. In the original video, three copies of a Sims video game were shown on the bed, as well as a book with a menacing inscription, which read, in part, “Death to live and live to kill,” signed with the name “Signature Indistinct.”
Social media users were quick to point out that the SIMS game and “Signature Indistinct” could be signs that the arrest was part of an FSB hoax gone awry, pointing out that the guidelines for setting up the crime scene might have involved inserting three SIM cards and signing the book with an invisible signature – and that these instructions may have been misunderstood or taken too literally by the officers. Perhaps realizing that their agents have flipped, official videos posted by the FSB on its YouTube channel have excluded the book and blurred the images from the SIMS video games.
Despite obvious holes in the official story of the so-called assassination plot, the Kremlin seems to be sticking to its story. On Monday, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov told Russian broadcaster Rossiya-1 that a group of six Russian neo-Nazis were indeed planning to assassinate state television host Vladimir Solovyov on orders from Ukraine’s security services.
In his interview with the state media outlet RIA NovostiSolovyov said he did not notice he was being followed and thanked the FSB profusely for saving his life. But the groundwork for Monday’s charges appears to have been laid days earlier: Two days before the arrests, Solovyov claimed he was accosted by unknown bullies during his morning jog.
“I was jogging on the embankment today when two fat bastards rode past me on their bikes and shouted ‘Glory to Ukraine’,” he said during his show. Solovyov Live† “They were too scared to stop and get punched in their greasy faces by me. No doubt we’ll track them down and find them, because it’s all on video… We need to catch all the bastards here.”
Solovyov, an outspoken supporter of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, falsely accused Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky of directing the alleged plot to assassinate him, claiming to be targeted because he is a Jewish journalist. Rossiya-1 reported that the “neo-Nazi killers” admitted to plotting the murder of other state media personalities, with a clip of an unnamed conspirator whose face was blurred and who said they also planned to kill the state television presenter, Dmitry Kiselyov. from RT Margarita Simonyan, her husband Tigran Keosayan, as well as pro-Putin pundits Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov.
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During a Monday night broadcast of the state television program 60 minutes, concluded Olga Skabeeva: “Ukraine officially became the sponsor of terrorism.” Earlier in April, during his telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden, Zelensky had asked the United States to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Today’s accusations are trying to get that accusation back into the lap of Ukraine.
Monday he opens his evening show† Solovyov seemed quite dizzy while discussing the alleged plot to kill him. He chuckled at having to answer phone calls and give interviews about the arrests, and laughed at how the president of Ukraine must have orchestrated the plan out of professional jealousy. As it turned out, Solovyov didn’t take the alleged attempts on his life half as seriously as the seizure of his Italian villas due to Western sanctions.
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