This purely fascist tweet was retweeted by three people.
One was Russia's Head of the Delegation on arms control.
And this while the Russian embassy in UK posts this.
We're clearly in the endgame. No reputation cost, no pretenses, point of no return passed.
And I don't understand what abstract freedom of speech considerations make it acceptable for @Twitter to provide a free platform to calls for mass extrajudicial assassinations.
Today FSB announced that they have “foiled a plot by Ukraine’s intelligence services” to lure Russian military pilots to surrender to Ukraine – with their planes – in return for millions of USD in payments (thread).
Using a traditional mix of forged "evidence" and loosely interpreted facts, the FSB also accused me personally of being involved in the plane-hijacking plot (on screen: totally forged message, I never had a UK number, obviously).
What is true, however, is I was involved in this crazier-than-fiction story of triple-agents, fake passports and faux girlfriends - as a documentary film maker. Yes, we were chronicling one of the wackiest counter-counter-intel operations of all time. And the docu is still on.
Persistent but unconfirmed chatter today that Zelensky has revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of several oligarchs and even an MP from his own party. Looking into this...
The people mentioned (including now in this @ukrpravda_news story) are Ihor Kolomoysky, Gennady Korban, Vadim Rabybovich and Ihor Vasilkovskiy (MP from Ze's party). pravda.com.ua/news/2022/07/2…
A copy of Zelensky's alleged decree from 18 July stripping 10 persons (incl Kolomoysky) of Ukrainian citizenship is making the rounds today. It's hard to validate if it's authentic, but it's numbered #502. And indeed that's a missing (=secret) decree number in the registry.
Exactly at this time 8 years ago, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 took off from Amsterdam with 298 people on board. Less than 3 hours later, they were all killed by a BUK anti-aircraft weapon, fired by the same incompetent Russian army that is killing mothers and children today.
Four suspects are on trial in absentia at the Hague regional court, with the verdict expected by end of this year. However, they only the deniable "volunteers" who acted as proxy for the Kremlin. The investigation into the chain of command including who shot the plane continues.
For 8 years, Russian authorities have been shamelessly lying about their role in the shooting. They have concocted dozens of "alternative theories" that they spread via controlled media and useful idiots. We investigated one of the disinfo projects here: bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Ahead of US and Canada organizing a special screening of #Navalny for members of OPCW at the Hague, the Russian embassy organized a screening of an anti-#Navalny "documentary". It was attended by "many Asian, Latin-American and African diplomats" (all seen on the photo).
(is that Naryshkin in the corner masquerading as Amb. Don Incognito)
OMG. I must have just caused the deletion of Russia's SVR Chief Naryshkin, as just noticed by @pevchikh. Someone pls go save him at the Hague.
Left: TASS article before my tweet. Right: just after. And in the TASS tweet, Naryshkin has been cropped out.
To my question if killing Zelensky was one of Wagner's advance team targets: "Well yeah, it's war after all..."
(re-posting as I had not blurred all clues to Wagnerite's identity):
He doubled down: "Ukraine's armed forces are suffering huge losses. RU special ops are near Kyiv. By the end of the week the Ukrainian armed forces will no longer exist as a structure."
26 Feb. I point to Ukrainian news of shot RU plane:
"Things kind of not going to plan.."
He: "Lots of fake news; when Russians are in Kyiv, they must think of something"
28 Feb: Me: "Now definitely not per plan. Embarrassing"
He: "We had some differences of opinions with command"
Update thread: You may remember our investigation into the explosions at the Vrbetice ammunition depot in Czechia in 2014. In it we showed a group of GRU spies from unit 29155 converged near the depots in the days of the explosions. bellingcat.com/news/2021/04/2…
We found then that Gen. Averyanov who supervised the operation had traveled to Lisbon just days earlier. Later we found out an employee of the company managing the weapons depot had traveled to Lisbon at the same time. That was Nikolai Saposnikov, a naturalized Czech of RU origin
Now our colleagues from @RESPEKT_CZ got proof that the two met in Lisbon. The Saposnikov's daughter, in an interview, said a man looking like Averyanov and describing himself as a literary historian, had joined her family on a sightseeing trip to Lisbon. respekt.cz/agenda/respekt…