{"id":139615,"date":"2023-04-05T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139615"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:13:43","slug":"back-to-the-bad-old-days-of-wwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139615","title":{"rendered":"Back to the bad old days of WWI"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speculation has swirled over who was behind the explosion in St Petersburg that killed Vladen Tatarsky, with the security services of Ukraine and Russia both having possible motives for wanting the blogger dead, amid Kremlin in-fighting over the war.
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Russian propagandist blogger Vladen Tatarsky was killed by an IED hidden inside a gift statuette given to him by a 26 year old anti-Ukraine invasion woman (above) moments before.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Russia\u2019s notorious FSB security service was quick to announce it had detained Daria Trepova, who was described by Russian state media as an opponent of the Kremlin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

But Dmitry Rylov, Ms Trepova\u2019s husband and a fellow activist, said that he thought his wife was being set up by the security services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am completely sure that she would never have been able to do something like this on her own,\u201d Mr Rylov told the SVTV News project. \u201cYes, Daria and I do not support the war in Ukraine but we believe that such actions are unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

But Dmitry Rylov, Ms Trepova\u2019s husband and a fellow activist, said that he thought his wife was being set up by the security services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am completely sure that she would never have been able to do something like this on her own,\u201d Mr Rylov told the SVTV News project. \u201cYes, Daria and I do not support the war in Ukraine but we believe that such actions are unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels published several photos of Ms Trepova as well as a video of her delivering a package to the cafe where Tatarsky was killed. Eyewitnesses said that they saw Ms Trepova give a bust containing the bomb to Tatarsky before it exploded.<\/p>\n

Tatarsky was a rabidly anti-Ukraine propagandist who posted videos from Russian forces fighting on the frontline in Ukraine. He had 560,000 followers and was known to be a close ally of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Kremlin\u2019s Wagner mercenary unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Telegraph via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

The FSB blames Ukraine, who denies involvement. Some blame the FSB, indicating to me that the schism between the Russian government and the Wagner mercenary group may be widening.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of the bad old dirty trick\u00a0 days of WWI, when agents might arrange to deliver a small “travel” Bible to opposition agents, who might pocket them not knowing the pages were printed on guncotton and that removing the book mark initiated the fuze. Or injecting a powerful acid into railway bearing grease barrels so that bearings wore out and seized extremely prematurely. (Lots of examples in “The Sea Devil’s Fo’c’sle” by Lowell Thomas if anyone is interested.) I personally liked the naval mine built into a conning tower mock-up, so greedy skippers who wanted to ram and sink a German sub (thereby earning a gold watch from the King) sank their own ships.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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