Thread by @generalsvr_en

Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President Vladimir #Putin learned about the explosion on the #CrimeanBridge, followed by a partial collapse and fire on its railway part, about 20 minutes after the incident.
1/19

#Putin was awakened and was told the most unpleasant news. The President had been receiving reports on what was happening for several hours until a more or less clear picture was determined. The version that the explosion on the bridge was...
2/19

“the work of the #Ukrainian special services” was the main one from the very beginning. But it immediately became clear that without assistance or criminal negligence (it is not clear what is worse) of the #Russian special services, this wouldn't have been possible.
3/19

In mid-September, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov addressed the President with an urgent proposal to agree on the replacement of the leadership of several services and departments of the FSB. Bortnikov made the main emphasis on problems with the leadership of...
4/19

the second service of the FSB, the information security centre (ISC) of the FSB, and the leadership of several territorial departments. Bortnikov also reported a high level of terrorist threat in several federal subjects. #Putin then postponed the adoption of a decision.
5/19

Apparently, #Putin based his decision on some of his own reasons, agreeing only to minor rotations in the ISC FSB.
A few days before the incident on the #CrimeanBridge , Nikolai #Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, during a visit to #Crimea, said that...
6/19

local authorities should increase the level of countering terrorism. The same proposal was formulated for #Putin, and #Patrushev supported Bortnikov, reminding Putin of the need to resolve pressing personnel issues in the FSB.
7/19

#Putin then recommended #Patrushev make specific proposals, to which Patrushev replied that the proposals had been formulated for a long time and were awaiting consideration by the President. Putin promised to sort it out soon.
8/19

The President received reports that pointed to several people from the leadership of the FSB and the National Guard who could take part in organizing and preparing the explosion on the #CrimeanBridge.
9/19

In particular, they directly point to the possible involvement of Alexei Zhalo, deputy head of the Second FSB Service.
The last thing #Putin wants now is to look for enemies within the system.
10/19

The strike on the #CrimeanBridge, a symbol of his geopolitical claims, worries him only in the light of his “debunking” as a “collector of #Russian lands.” If you openly define the enemies within the system who encroached on the main symbol of his success, then...
11/19

this means admitting the collapse of the system and regime. #Putin's system can only be monolithic.
The situation is also the same with the “response to the #Ukrainian terrorists”.
12/19

The senile chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, reported to #Putin about it. Bastrykin himself was given the text shortly before the meeting with the President. He simply repeated what he remembered and how he could.
13/19

#Putin is expected to react, and he is deciding what to do. Last night, the permanent members of the #Russian Security Council received notices that a meeting could be held at any time, even at night.
14/19

They had to be ready to either arrive at the meeting venue or go on air via video call. #Putin probed the waters by video chatting with several members of the Security Council to see if they were ready to support his proposal for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
15/19

The proposal should have been formulated in such a way that it would not have meant the immediate use of nuclear weapons, but would have only confirmed and given consent (by the permanent members of the Security Council) to the possibility of using it at any time...
16/19

in case of an aggravation of the situation. And #Putin was going to raise this question during the meeting of the Security Council only if all the participants in the meeting, without exception, were ready to give a positive answer.
17/19

Show the next red lines and make it clear that there will be a blow next. But according to our information, among the permanent members of the Security Council there were people who, at the stage of discussion of this possibility with the President, expressed their doubts.
18/19

#Putin needs to answer, but the options between "very bad," vague, and "nuclear" are bringing the President closer to the end of his reign much faster than even before the explosion on the #CrimeanBridge.
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