850 people were held hostage by 40-50 Chechen terrorists. A chemical gas was used successfully to placate the terrorists. The problem was that titrating a sleep-inducing drug is impossible in such conditions, and 130 hostages were also killed, mostly by overdoses of the drug. Doctors on the scene criticized the operation because they were not told what drug had been used, and so could not effectively counter its effects among the innocent. I would certainly call it a debacle. I would not call it evidence that Putin murders his own people for political points.
~Doctors on the scene criticized the operation because they were not told what drug had been used, and so could not effectively counter its effects among the innocent. I would certainly call it a debacle. I would not call it evidence that Putin murders his own people for political points.~
Not to mention muslims has infiltrated police and terrorists had a scanner sniffing emergency channels.
It was impossible to assemble a fleet of ambulances and Emercom teams as far as these are civilians, they won’t maintain radio silence so terrorists would realize that something huge is happening.
Imagine evacuating a thousand of poisoned people exhausted during a siege piled in trucks and city buses?
I still wondering how could liberal media in Russia and elsewhere shift the blame from muslims to a Russian government.
Considering the situation it was a successful operation.
Same about Beslan massacre which wasn’t that successful but still a muslim fault.