Regardless, it is not in Russia’s interest to stage such a thing on the eve of the presidential election in Russia, only in the interests of Russia’s enemies.
Apart from the fact that a country’s interests can look different depending on the perspective of the observer and apart from the fact that a full understanding of country’s interests can only be adequately determined from a point of near-perfect knowledge, it is, of course, well known that countries only do logical things that are in their interests. Always. Without Fail. That’s why we live in such a logical world /s.