Putin's right-hand man 'survives poison assassination attempt', according to 'Kremlin insiders' who also claimed Vladimir is expecting to become a father again

An attempted assassination by poisoning has been made on Vladimir Putin's de facto deputy, according to a sensational new claim.

Nikolai Patrushev, 71, a former head of the FSB secret service and secretary of the Kremlin's security council, was reportedly rushed to hospital in recent days after falling unwell.

General SVR, a dissident Russian Telegram channel which claims to be operated by a former Kremlin official with inside sources, said toxicology test results revealed Patrushev had been afflicted by a 'synthetic poison', but had ultimately survived the attempt on his life.

The former FSB head is widely seen as the man to whom Putin hands power when he is absent for medical treatment, and is also a key architect of the war in Ukraine.

His son Dmitry, 44, is Russia's agriculture minister and is tipped by some pundits as a likely successor to Putin.

It comes as the same channel reported the warmongering Russian leader is expecting a daughter with former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who is widely thought to be Putin's mistress.

'Who is behind the assassination attempt, what are the motives and how it became possible in general to organise an actually completed assassination attempt on a representative of such a high level of power, remains to be seen.'

The channel pointed to in-fighting within Putin's circle, adding: 'This is only the beginning of a big redistribution in the elites.

Daily Mail propaganda is always good for a laugh!
maybe he ate too much dog?
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Z is sinking and stills needs your sort of troll propaganda i suppose.
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On July 13th, Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The attack was carried out by Russian high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles which struck the building of the garrison house of officers in the city.

The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that “at the time of the strike, a meeting of the command of the Ukrainian air forces with representatives of foreign arms suppliers was held at this military facility on the transfer of the next batch of aircraft, weapons of destruction to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the organization of repair of the Ukrainian aviation fleet.”

As a result of the strike, the participants of the meeting were destroyed.

The Ukrainian media launched the information campaign claiming that the strike targeted civilian facilities located nearby, including a maternity hospital. The reports stressed on the number of civilian killed during the attack without mentioning the real targets. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called the shelling of Vinnytsia a “terrorist attack against civilians,” and he demanded once again Russia to be recognized as a “terrorist state”.

Despite attempts of the Kiev regime to hide the truth behind the loud claims on the attacks on civilians, the reports of the Russian Ministry of Defence were confirmed by the facts.

Soon after the strike, names of high-ranking officers of the Ukrainian Air Force who were killed in the building of the garrison house of officers were revealed but were missed by the media.

So far, the known victims include:

Acting Chief of Armament of the Logistics Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Dmitry Burdyko.
The head of the Military-Scientific Department of the headquarters of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Puzyrenko.
The head of the Armament and Logistics Service of the Ukrainian Air Force, Colonel Oleg Makarchuk.

The victims were members of the Ukrainian delegation who held talks with foreign military officials on arms supplies to Ukraine. They are not the only Ukrainian officials killed in Vinnytsia. The real number of casualties remains unknown, as well as the names of foreign officers who took part in the talks that day.

The Russian strike marked the first attack on the Ukrainian decision-making centers. It is likely linked to the further dismissal of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Soon after the incident, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky dismissed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ivan Bakanov, as well as Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The reason of such a decision were links “between employees of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and the special services of Russia”.

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OPERATION Z – DON’T INTERRUPT

One of Napoleon’s observations is that you should never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake. Russians know this, not least because they were careful not to interrupt Napoleon himself in 1812. Putin and his team have had plenty of opportunities to meet NATO’s leaders, observe them, negotiate with them and assess them. It’s unlikely they’re very impressed. But when they started their “special military operation” in Ukraine they could never have dreamed how self-destructive NATO would be.

What mistakes? First, the West has not shot itself in the foot with its economic sanctions – Hungary’s Viktor Orban is right when he observes that it has put a slug into its lungs. One can still limp along with a broken foot, but a shot to the lungs is pretty serious. Second, who in Moscow could have imagined that NATO would shovel its ammunition and weapons stockpiles into the Ukrainian black hole in the expectation that if they can get the latest wonderwaffe to General Steiner they’ll be in Moscow by Christmas.

A good reason for Moscow to take it slowly – let the mistakes develop, compound and metastasize. It’s happening by itself. Naturally, inevitably, logically. No outside effort required. An unexpected bonus.

Don’t interrupt.

Consider Germany, “the engine of Europe“. It stands on one thing – the reputation of German engineering and quality – Mercedes/Miele/Bosch, they may cost more but they’re cheaper in the long run because they’re so well made. No Western country manufactures much these days but Germany still does. In fact, only South Korea and China have a bigger share of their economies in manufacturing. (America, the colossus of former times, is half Germany!) But manufacturing needs energy. German energy comes from Russia – not all of it – about 20%. But coal is 40% and nuclear 10% and they have to reduce these because Greta wants them to which means they need more gas which is cheaper and “cleaner” and which mostly comes from Russia which requires another pipeline to be built. But then they decide that Ukraine is The Big Moral Issue and close the pipeline and step up coal which they’re going to get rid of altogether in 2030 thanks to more wind energy. And what about the nukes? Unicorn wings flapping. Hard to be green and hate Russia too.

And let’s ban potash from Russia and Belarus. That’s about a third of world production. Ban Russian wheat (it is the number 1 exporter) and oil (it is the number 2 exporter).

Oh, and by confiscating Russian assets they’ve shown the whole world that only an idiot would keep his wealth in NATO currency in a NATO bank.

And all this for a country they lied to about NATO membership.

Don’t interrupt.

Scene – Napoleon’s study – flunky enters “Mon Empereur, your enemies have banned a big energy exporter, a big food exporter and a big fertilizer exporter.” Will Napoleon shout “Stop it, mes chers ennemis, you’re going to destroy yourselves with inflation!” Probably not.

Everybody eats food and everything needs energy, their prices will rise and pull every other price up with them. EU inflation in May was 8.8%. But it hasn’t got liftoff yet – UK energy prices are set to rise 65% in October with another hike in January. It’s just begun.

Trouble in the streets all over Europe and two of the smug seven gone a month later.

Don’t interrupt.

Javelin anti-tank missiles were the wonderwaffe a few months ago – in mid April America had sent a third of its stockpile. That’s three or four years to replace. A quarter of its Stinger stocks. Vovan and Lexus got the UK Defense Minister to admit the UK had sent so many anti-tank missiles that it was running out. The Czech Republic is just about out of stuff to send. France has given up 18 months’ production of its Caesar guns.

And Kiev wants still more. Now that Kiev’s NATO backers have come up with the crazy idea of giving guns that need NATO ammunition, 155mm ammunition stocks are running down fast. If Ukraine is really firing 3000 155mm shells a day, that will burn the entire US annual production in a few weeks. And so on. War consumes astounding levels of ammunition – the Russians know this because they remember – they’re never allowed to forget – 1941-1945. NATO thinks blowing up, in wars of choice, at its leisure, people in sandals is the gold standard of military achievement. I again recommend reading The Return of Industrial Warfare. Russia is keeping up production but NATO isn’t and, absent a very long lead time (and a lot of other changes that you know perfectly well will never happen in FIRE-centered economies) can’t.

Even The Economist has noticed – Europe’s winter of discontent. (Still thinks that it’s Putin that put the double-tap into the lung though. But it is The Economist which has done its bit to bring us to this point.)

Why would Moscow want this to end any time soon? Time is working and the enemy is making lots of mistakes.

Don’t interrupt.

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