Is Putin himself behind the attack on a propagandist?

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“A golden Wladlen. Brilliant!” Shortly before his death, Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky holds a gold statue in his hand. He seems happy with the gift he will probably receive from Darya T.* (26). She is sitting on an armchair a few meters away at the discussion round for military fans in Saint Petersburg.

Tatarskik asks T. to sit next to him. She refuses, replies “I’m shy.” The two smile at each other.

Then an explosion shakes the building. The propagandist dies. According to investigators, a bomb had been planted in the bust. Darja T. is arrested. After the incident, experts and military bloggers discuss one question in particular: Who is really behind the attack?

Two days after the attack, new details keep coming to light. Another suspect, Dmitri K., was arrested on Monday, Darja T.’s husband told “The Insider”. According to him, his wife was not aware that the bust contained explosives.

Who’s behind this?

The Kremlin blames the Ukrainian government and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (46). Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov (55) reacted to the assassination in the expected manner. Among other things, he said: “The Kiev regime supports terrorist actions and could be behind the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky and many others since 2014 – that is why the special military operation is ongoing.”

The Russian National Counter-Terrorism Committee investigating the attack also alleges that the Ukrainian secret service cooperated with the anti-corruption fund set up by Navalny in 2011 to plan the attack on Tatarsky.

Experts doubt this version. Russia expert Sarah Hurst suspects that a “false flag” operation by the Russian secret service is behind the attack. In an interview with “Bild” she says: “As in the case of the murder of the ultra-nationalist Daria Dugina, it is possible that the Russian secret service FSB staged all this for its own purposes. Either to get rid of someone who is uncomfortable felt, or to send the message that all Russians are in danger, or both.” As a result, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin (70) may have even ordered the attack himself.

Even Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin (61) does not believe that the Ukrainian government was involved in the attack. He says, “I think there’s a group of radicals that probably have nothing to do with the government.”

Military bloggers at odds

Russian military bloggers also have doubts about the Kremlin’s story. The US military experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in their Monday situation report that a Russian political analyst openly criticized the official Russian response to Tatarsky’s death, noting that Russian officials are likely to ignore the final findings. of the research will be announced. in the had predetermined.

Historian Jan Behrends of the European University in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, has a very different view of the crime. He sees Kremlin chief Putin facing a domestic political acid test. Russia is in the “transition to civil war”.

In an interview with “Bild”, he predicted: “Many armed forces operate in Putin’s Russia and an underground struggle for power is already raging. Repression and violence are becoming part of everyday life.” The lack of coherence among Russian military bloggers is now likely to add to the unrest.

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Source: Blick