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🇷🇺 Authorities in #Russia’s southern republic of #Chechnya publicly displayed the body of a teenager accused of stabbing two traffic police officers earlier this week, local media and Chechen opposition groups said Thursday.

themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/10/

The Moscow Times · Chechen Authorities Publicly Display Body of Alleged Police AttackerBy The Moscow Times
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- Bombed civilian targets in #Ukraine and Syria
- Invaded #Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine
- Built a massive censorship apparatus
- Taken control of all national media
- Imprisoned anyone who publicly opposes the war in Ukraine
- Used the Russian Orthodox Church as a massive espionage and influence operation
- Ignored most calls for peace #negotiations
- Most likely sabotaged underwater cables in the #BalticSea
- Orchestrated massive voter fraud

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Two years ago, I wrote that the #Russia has a standard set of tricks and it is very likely that they will use the same methods against Ukraine as they did against #Chechnya in the 2000s.

At the time, the terrorist attack in #Beslan came as a shock to the West, which practically ended the moral and financial support for #Ichkeria, which allowed the Russians to finish it off on their terms.

The question is, who could become the Ukrainian Basayev in this case? (and I will explain more in the next post)

Russians already tried this trick in 2022, creating some fantastic connections between Ukraine and ISIS through the highly exaggerated presence of Chechen and Crimean volunteers, ‘ISIS patches’, etc. It worked just like the ‘biolaboratories’ - everyone just rolled their eyes. They also decided to blame Ukraine on 2024 Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, but it was such a far stretch than nobody believed it in Russia.

In 2023 they already ran the same story, except that time it was US who “hired #ISIS for attacks in Russia”:

https://tass.com/defense/1575451

Today they announced Ukraine prepares terrorist attacks in EU, and I will quote them because the wording is important:

According to information available to the SVR, European capitals are concerned about Ukraine’s utter unwillingness to make agreements with Moscow as long as it requires ‘excessive concessions’ from Kiev. According to the information that the Europeans have, Kiev is considering various options aimed at disrupting peace talks, which include carrying out a series of terrorist attacks on Russian diplomatic missions in European countries

https://tass.com/politics/1915859

The problem I see now is that Trump’s circles seem to live in an alternative reality where an attack can be carried out by a Russian from Russia with a tattoo of a ‘Z’ on their forehead and yet they will still blame Ukraine. And they will believe it as they currently believe in ‘4% support for Zelensky’, ‘Ukraine starting the war’ or ‘murdering Orthodox priests’ (this is just what I have read since yesterday). So it only needs to work for a selected audience, not necessarily for everyone.

TASS · US recruiting IS jihadists for terrorist attacks in Russia and CIS, says intel agencyBy TASS

"The geopolitical position of the Caucasus is beyond any doubt the source of civilization on the globe... Spiritual potential, moral potential, natural potential - all of this does not allow the Chechen people... to be slaves." - Dzhokhar Dudayev, First president of the Chechen Republic, 1995

Ukraine Daily summary - Saturday, February 15 2025

Over 6,000 cases of Russian use of chemicals recorded over 2 years -- ‘Nuclear blackmail:’ Russia strikes Chornobyl as world leaders gather for Munich Security Conference -- Russia abandons modernization of power plants due to lack of money, equipment -- [vblog] NATO member turning pro-Russia? Inside Slovakia’s political turmoil -- JD Vance's Munich speech met with shock, bewilderment -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Saturday, February 15 2025Over 6,000 cases of Russian use of chemicals recorded over 2 years -- ‘Nuclear blackmail:’ Russia strikes Chornobyl as world leaders gather for Munich Security Conference -- Russia abandons modernization of power plants due to lack of money, equipment -- [vblog] NATO member turning pro-Russia? Inside Slovakia’s political turmoil -- JD Vance's Munich speech met with shock, bewilderment -- and more