Posted on 11/09/2023 4:22:04 PM PST by Libloather
Ukrainian officials have taken credit for a car bomb that killed a Russian-backed politician Wednesday, calling the act retribution.
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense wrote on Telegram that "traitors to Ukraine and collaborators with terrorist Russia in temporarily occupied territories … will receive just retribution! The hunt continues!"
Andriy Cherniak, representative of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate, told Politico "it was our operation."
The Telegram post claimed that members of the resistance in the occupied territory helped carry out the killing of Luhansk legislature member Mikhail Filiponenko, who had survived a previous car bombing just days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Filiponenko formerly led Moscow-backed separatist troops in Luhansk and represented the group in the cease-fire monitoring center in the region before the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion last year, Radio Free Europe reported.
The directorate alleged that Filiponenko had organized and participated in the torture of prisoners of war and civilians, calling him "the executioner."
Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News Digital that Ukraine is turning to "targeted killings" as a result of failing to realize the gains anticipated from their counteroffensive this year.
"It’s an irregular form of warfare used by modern militaries when they are unable to produce a clear military victory with conventional approaches," Koffler explained.
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Vladimir Putin, making Moscow into Belfast. It sounds like that is where that’s going to go.
How about they assassinate someone in the US? How about they set off a bomb in the USD? Would you call that an escalation?
You really think the Ruzzians are stupid and suicidal enough to trigger Article V of the Atlantic Charter? Because then they really will get their worthless carcasses curbstomped and by close to forty allied nations.
Tell yourself that close to 40 will be on board.
Even if it’s just Finland then Ruzzia will be screwed. It’s a weak and pathetic shadow of the empire it used to be. Their glory days are behind them. No one fears them anymore and the wolves are circling...just waiting for the right time to make the kill.
Here’s the thing, as bad as “The Troubles” have been in Ireland, you have Irishmen Catholic and Protestant, and they can be fairly forgiving good humored people, end of the day. The Slavic diaspora is a different thing, altogether.
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