What I suggest will be controversial. I suggest that infighting among Kremlin elites lead to Darya Dugina, being car bombed: Nasty times ahead
Right now, on the death of Darya Dugina, the Kremlin is warming up to blaming Kyiv for the bombing, whereas if this were believed, it would lead to an excuse to missile bomb Kyiv en masse via repeated missile strike attacks on August 24, 2022. I am suggesting that instead of this narrative that infighting among Kremlin elites blaming each other for the stalled war in Ukraine may have lead to her car being bombed, and that there is a ratcheting up of a blame game, plus an excuse to find a reason for what otherwise would be a poisonously unpopular decision. i.e. if Russia is to "win " this war, it can only do so, via wartime mobilization
Consider this, the Russian paratroopers are refusing to fight in Ukraine
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The biggest problem for the occupiers is the mass refusal of the command staff of the airborne forces to participate in the war. Even contract soldiers, who were urgently assigned officer ranks, are refusing to take up posts from platoon commander to battalion commander, with subsequent departure to Ukraine.
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Soldiers are refusing to obey orders for Ukraine deployment. Darya Dugina makes a very convenient heroine as to a "justification" for all out war, whereas without her dying the resistance to full time war measures would be epic and insurmountable
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A former member of Russia’s Duma who was expelled for anti-Kremlin activities has claimed that Russian partisans were allegedly behind a car bomb which blew up the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin’s close political allies on the outskirts of Moscow.
Speaking in Kyiv, where he is based,?Ilya Ponomarev?alleged the explosion on Saturday evening was the work of the National Republican Army, which he claimed was an underground group working inside Russia and dedicated to overthrowing the Putin regime.
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Too convenient, and too smooth a transition . Ie. that it is so smooth and logical means that there is likely something else going on in the world of Kremlin intrigue
Whereas
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A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak denied that Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing.
"Ukraine surely doesn't have anything to do with yesterday's explosion because we're not a criminal state," he said in televised remarks.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram that "if the Ukrainian theory is confirmed... and it must be verified by competent authorities, it will amount to state terrorism on the part of the Kyiv regime."
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There likely will be no directly confirmed proof one way or another, but the mere convenience of the death of Darya Dugina, is a gift from Heaven so to speak as to Putin rallying his nation behind what otherwise would be toxically unpopular wartime mobilization
We are in for weird times ahead
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Russian paratroopers refusing to go to fight in Ukraine - intelligence
20.08.2022 17:01
Russian paratrooper officers are refusing to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, so the command of the airborne forces of the occupying country has decided to appoint contract service members without officer ranks and experience of participation in hostilities to officer positions.
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said this on?Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
After the massive losses suffered by the Russian paratroopers in combat clashes with Ukrainian defenders, the command of the airborne troops is at least partially trying to restore their morale and psychological state and combat capability. The main attention is given to units where more than 60 percent of the personnel were destroyed and units where the personnel are demoralized and refuse to continue their service.
The biggest problem for the occupiers is the mass refusal of the command staff of the airborne forces to participate in the war. Even contract soldiers, who were urgently assigned officer ranks, are refusing to take up posts from platoon commander to battalion commander, with subsequent departure to Ukraine.
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Whereas as to that car bomb attack in Russia
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Ex-Russian MP claims Russian partisans responsible for Moscow car bomb
Speaking in Kyiv, Ilya Ponomarev alleges bomb that killed daughter of Putin ally was work of underground group
Sun 21 Aug 2022 13.54 EDT
A former member of Russia’s Duma who was expelled for anti-Kremlin activities has claimed that Russian partisans were allegedly behind a car bomb which blew up the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin’s close political allies on the outskirts of Moscow.
Speaking in Kyiv, where he is based,?Ilya Ponomarev?alleged the explosion on Saturday evening was the work of the National Republican Army, which he claimed was an underground group working inside Russia and dedicated to overthrowing the Putin regime.
The Guardian has not verified the authenticity of Ponomarev’s claims. Russian commentators have blamed?Ukraine?for the attack, a claim Kyiv strongly denies.
“This action, like many other partisan actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army (NRA),” Ponomarev said. He was speaking?in a 7pm broadcast on February Morning, a Russian-language opposition TV channel he launched in Kyiv earlier this year.
He added: “A momentous event took place near Moscow last night. This attack opens a new page in Russian resistance to Putinism. New – but not the last.”
The blast killed Darya Dugina, the 30-year-old daughter of the Russian political commentator and far-right ideologue?Alexander Dugin, both of whom had been sanctioned by the UK and US for acting to destabilise Ukraine.
Ponomarev said partisans inside Russia were ready to conduct further similar attacks against high-profile Kremlin-connected targets, including officials, oligarchs and members of Russia’s security agencies.
The former deputy read what purported to be an NRA manifesto: “We declare President Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death.
“Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others?–?the essence of his policy. We believe that disenfranchised people have the right to rebel against tyrants. Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us!”
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Ponomarev confirmed his comments in a message sent by text. A leftwing member of Russia’s parliament, he was the only deputy to vote in 2014 against the annexation of Crimea.
A vengeful Kremlin?barred him when he was on a trip to the US?from re-entering his own country. He became a Ukrainian citizen in 2019. In March, after the invasion of Ukraine, he launched February Morning and Rozpartisan, a Telegram channel which gives news updates of anti-war actions in Russian towns and cities.
Ponomarev’s feud with Putin is well known. His claim there is an active indigenous underground movement seeking to assassinate prominent supporters of the war inside Russia would, if true, mark a dramatic escalation. It is likely to enrage – if not necessarily convince – the Kremlin.
The alleged manifesto declared that the Russian government and regional administrations are Putin’s “accomplices”.
“Those who do not resign their power will be destroyed by us,” it said.
Other targets include corrupt businessmen, the homes and properties of those who fail to condemn the Kremlin and its war, and “employees of power structures”. Military cargoes and people who profit from them will also be wiped out, it said.
The statement promised the NRA would not target civilians. It described Daria Dugina as a legitimate target and “faithful companion” to her father, who supported genocide in Ukraine. “She was a voice calling for violence and murder” in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, it stated.
Prominent Russian hawks have demanded the Kremlin respond by targeting government officials in Kyiv. “Decision-making centres!! Decision-making centres!!!” wrote Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the state-funded RT television station, reposting a call to bomb the headquarters of the Ukrainian SBU intelligence agency.
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Vladimir Putin ally Alexander Dugin's daughter killed in car bomb attack
Russian police have launched a homicide investigation over the death of Darya Dugina, who was killed after a bomb placed in the car she was driving went off.
Police officers at the scene of the bombing in Bolshiye Vyazyomy, on Moscow's outskirts.?Source:?AAP?/?TASS/Sipa USA
The daughter of Alexander Dugin, a hard-line Russian ideologue close to President Vladimir Putin, has been killed in a car bombing on Moscow's outskirts, authorities said on Sunday.
According to family members quoted by Russian media, Mr Dugin -- a vocal supporter of Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine -- was the likely target of the blast as his daughter borrowed his car at the last minute.
Darya Dugina was killed when a bomb placed in the Toyota Land Cruiser went off as she drove on a highway near the village of Bolshie Vyzyomy, some 40 kilometres outside Moscow, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Ms Dugina, a journalist born in 1992 who herself openly supported?the offensive, died at the scene and a homicide investigation has been opened, said the committee, which probes major crime cases in Russia.
In July, Britain put her on a list of sanctioned Russians for allegedly spreading online disinformation about Ukraine.
Mr Dugin, 60, sometimes called "Putin's Rasputin" or "Putin's brain," is an outspoken Russian ultra-nationalist intellectual.
He has long advocated the unification of Russian-speaking territories in a vast new Russian empire and wholeheartedly supported Moscow's operation in Ukraine.
He was put on a Western sanctions list after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move he also backed.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
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The head of one of Ukraine's breakaway separatist regions blamed the blast on Kyiv authorities.
"The Ukrainian regime terrorists tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew up his daughter," DNR chief Denis Pushilin wrote on Telegram.
A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak denied that Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing.
"Ukraine surely doesn't have anything to do with yesterday's explosion because we're not a criminal state," he said in televised remarks.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram that "if the Ukrainian theory is confirmed... and it must be verified by competent authorities, it will amount to state terrorism on the part of the Kyiv regime."
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