Posted on 08/23/2022 4:44:31 AM PDT by Cronos
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (the Russian parliament), said that the so-called National Republican Army (NRA) has claimed responsibility for the murder of Darya Dugina, the daughter of "Putin’s ideologue" Aleksandr Dugin.
Source: Ponomarev on air on Utro Fevralya (February Morning), his opposition TV channel, and in a commentary for Ukrainska Pravda
Details: Ponomarev said that Darya Dugina had called for the murder of Ukrainians and was one of the voices inciting violence and calling for murders in the occupied territories [of Ukraine]. Among other things, she had offered a justification for the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Olenivka prison camp.
Quote from Ponomarev: "This act [the murder of Dugina - ed.], like many other partisan acts carried out on Russian territory over the last few months, was carried out by the National Republican Army.
We have established contact with NRA fighters via our Rospartisan [Telegram] channel, which covers the rising tide of resistance in Russia. Today the NRA fighters authorised me to read their manifesto."
Quote from the NRA "manifesto": "We are Russian activists, military personnel and politicians, currently also partisans and fighters of the National Republican Army, and we are outlawing the warmongers, thieves and oppressors of the peoples of Russia!
We declare President Putin to be a usurper of power and a war criminal who has violated the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between Slavic peoples, and sent Russian soldiers to a certain and senseless death.
[…] We will overthrow and destroy Putin! […] We declare all Russian government officials and regional administration officials to be accomplices to the usurper. We will kill every one of them who fails to resign.
We declare all business owners who profit from corruption and personal connections to government officials to be traitors of the Motherland and accomplices to the usurper. We will destroy the property of everyone who fails to repent and publicly express their opposition to this government and its war, and we will kill every one of them.
We declare everyone who works for the security forces to be accomplices to the usurper. We will kill everyone who fails to lay down their arms and step down from their positions.
We declare military cargo, and the cargo of everyone who is profiting from the war or helping to finance it, to be legitimate targets that will be destroyed by us.
[…] We call on the soldiers of the Russian army to stop firing on our brothers from other countries: Georgia, Syria, Ukraine and other countries." [Ponomaryov named Ukraine even though the manifesto published online does not mention it - ed.]
More details: The National Republican Army is urging all Russian citizens to join its ranks and "raise the white, blue and white flag of the new Russia instead of the tricolour disgraced by Putin's government."
"We will protect everyone who responds to our call," the organisation promises.
It also stated that everyone who undertakes the course of actions it has laid out, "all the way up to regime change", will be exempt from the liability specified by the "usurper’s" laws.
In addition, the NRA promises to free everyone who has been illegally sentenced by Putin’s government immediately "after victory".
Ponomarev said that he supports the actions of his "comrades" from the NRA. He stressed that the organisation is not at war with peaceful civilians and will not target civilian facilities.
"I urge everyone who is prepared to fight ‘Putinism’ not in words, but with action, to join our ranks," he announced.
In a conversation with Ukrainska Pravda, Ponomarev confirmed that the NRA had released the statement. He noted that he has been "in touch" with members of the organisation since April 2022.
"We are actively helping [the NRA] in various ways," he added
Lets explore your hypothesis. There are anti-government activists in Russia, like the people who have set some recruiting offices on fire and the people arrested for opposing the war in Ukraine.
There have also been some instances of fires at facilities that support the war effort, train derailments, etc. And most recently the bombing which killed the daughter of a fairly well known member of the Russian elite.
One possibility is that those events were attacks from internal Russian dissidents or crime syndicates, or even by the FSB or other state related entities pro or anti-Putin.
Another possibility is that the Ukrainian clandestine services are extremely good, and have thoroughly infiltrated Russia to the extent that they can car bomb the daughter of a member of the Russian elite whenever they want to. According to the Russians the assassin lived in the same apartment building as the victim and even though supposedly the woman was an AZOV member the Russian security services let her in the country and had no idea what she was up to. If that is true there are hundreds like her already in Russia.
If there really are no Russians starting fires, derailing trains, and now killing the family members of elite Russians, then real fear should be spreading among the Russian elites. They would have to realize that the Ukrainian clandestine services can kill them, or their family members any time they go out shopping, or to a festival, or are at their desk in the research center.
It is probably in the best interests of the Russian government to simultaneously publicly blame the Ukrainians but internally blame nebulous and presumably weak Russian groups.
No way to sift through all the propaganda to know who really did this, although it doesn’t seem to make much sense for Ukraine to have done it.
If you go out and read their manifesto (it does exist on paper)...it reads like something that some CIA-contractor PhD-intellectual type would write.
I would offer the observation that some element of the CIA (maybe planned under CIA guidance, maybe on their own individual staging) created this group and is faking the existence. The manifesto reads like a combination of nationalism and socialism, and of course...that leads to one odd conclusion.
It’s not just the Russians and Ukrainians at war....elements of Europe, the CIA, the Chinese, and others...are playing around the corners of this situation.
NRA is a fiction of imagination which didn’t exist until two days ago.
sure.
Just like the great philosopher, Leon the Professional, there are rules... "no children, no women and no civilians"....
I think that just maybe the "elites" on BOTH SIDES, might be worried now..... since there are "no rules" and "plausible deniability".
Ukraine is now going to be blamed and it looks like "Estonia" will be "on the list"...... all that needs to happen is for the "assassin" to be captured and "made to confess".....
This is going to be interesting.
Ilya Ponomarev is NOT new to the equation: He has been around advocating for violently taking out the current Russian leadership for some time. For all I know, this “NRA” exists only in his mind, but, I believe Ponomarev has a real axe to grind and, given means, would carry out his objectives and / or help others to do so. Namely, as he once matter-of-factly put it, to “kill the bastards”.
BTW, here’s the vid from the TV broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ydgjekMr1c
Pravda nyet izvestia; Izvestia nyet pravda.
I don’t trust anything from media over there. Both sides are using mass propaganda. (i.e., recall the “Ghost of Kiev?” The 19,000 Russian dead after just two months?)
Yes, he and his Ukrainian compadres were the ones who SUDDENLY FARTED this NRA into “existence” along with the “manifesto” in this propaganda video. It’s just another squirrel for them to use to distract from the real villains.
Not fictional.
Fictional are Putin’s excuses for the invasion of Ukraine. No biowarfare centres were found outside of Russian propaganda
You can read the same on multiple other sites
Trump would have kicked Putin’s butt back to the Kremlin.
Under trump’s watch Putin would not have dared to invade Ukraine
It never would have happened if Trump had been President. He makes deals, not war.
The propaganda is anything that tells you what Putin wants you to believe. Remember his fictional reasons for invading? Like the non existant bio warfare center?
Taiwan, ie the Republic of China, to give it its official name.
The RoC is on an island, is wealthy and heavily armed.
The PRC has no chance of conquering it today. Maybe in a few decades, but not today.
And the deal would be that Putin would not invade Ukraine and in exchange, Putin doesn’t get his butt kicked.
No matter how mendacious the fake news experts are it cannot go unnoticed forever that getting “help” from the World Police is practically a death sentence.
Anybody who takes on Goliath, and knocks him cold, is going to become very popular.
His reasons weren’t fictional. They were real and that is why the Minsk agreement that was never followed led to this.
Hate blinds people to truths. Trump would have tried to settle this. The Biden regime wanted war and that is what they got. The Biden regime even told you why they wanted war.
Did you even listen? It wasn’t about Ukraine. It was about using Ukraine to weaken Russia. Getting rid of Putin will just bring in a guy far more hard lined than Putin. So it wasn’t just about Putin, it was about weakening Russia, making them more vulnerable. That is why it is prolonged with money and weapons just to keep it going. Thing is more and more needless death in Ukraine. Very sad.
I think the LWO wants real war with Russia to force them into the LWO, but that will be a war nobody wins.
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