Posted on 08/24/2022 6:44:29 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A Ukrainian national who acted as a pro-Putin official in occupied Zaporizhzhia region has been killed in a car bombing today, days after the daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist died in similar fashion at the weekend.
Ivan Sushko, a 40-year-old father-of-one, died this morning when a car bomb detonated under his seat, harrowing CCTV footage showed.
Images of the car taken after the blast showed the driver's side door crumpled with all the windows blown out and debris strewn across the road.
It was reported that Sushko was taking his daughter to nursery at the time of the explosion.
The child is not thought to have sustained life threatening injuries, but this has not been verified.
Sushko was installed as head of the Mykhailivka 'military-civilian administration' by occupying Russian forces in May, in the region where Europe's largest nuclear plant is under siege.
Putin loyalist Rogov said the attack was carried out by 'saboteurs' in the region, and vowed to track them down, claiming Ukraine was attacking Russian-backed officials who 'help improve the lives of ordinary people'.
Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on the bombing, but President Volodymyr Zelensky has strongly denied his agents carried out the assassination of Darya Dugina, 29, the daughter of 'Putin's Rasputin', at the weekend.
He rejected any link to Natalia Shaban-Vovk, a 43-year-old mother who Russia says acted for Kyiv's SBU secret service, going so far as to claim she is not even a Ukrainian citizen.
'This is definitely not our responsibility,' he said. 'She is not a citizen of our country.
'She is of no interest to us. She is not on the territory of Ukraine or the occupied territory of Ukraine.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Daily Mail propaganda. Tired of Daily Mail propaganda pushed on this site 24/7.
The super long titles are designed for propaganda purposes.
Images of the scene. Did it show a head rolling and body parts all over the place? Inquiring minds need to know.
Here’s a short item on Darya Dugina who is certainly not the monster portrayed by some and who was certainly on Zelensky’s hit list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxiJqVvA2k
The car bomb story is from Russian media. This is just the DM repeating it. Thats what the DM does mostly - compile other media’s reporting or official statements.
Thats why its handy to quote - it avoids scanning masses of obscure stuff, like local US news, when it posts stories ignored by the US MSM.
Ukraine’s account
Ukraine’s president Zelensky has now declared that Natalia Shaban-Vovk is ‘not a Ukrainian citizen’ and is ‘not in Ukrainian territory’.
But even prior to his announcement, Kyiv had strongly denied having anything to do with Dugina’s death.
And information put out by Kyiv and uncovered by various pro-Ukraine sources disputes key parts of Russia’s narrative.
A spokesman for the Azov battalion told Ukrainian media that Natalia had never served with them - because there are no women soldiers in their ranks.
The source added that the ID card shown off by the FSB is actually for the National Guard, and would not be carried by an Azov soldier.
He said pencil marks on the ID show it was invalidated because the woman had married and changed her last name.
The soldier speculated that the invalid ID had been placed in archives of Ukraine’s national guard in Mariupol - a building Russia now occupies - and had been uncovered by their troops and manipulated for propaganda purposes.
Internet sleuths also claimed to have uncovered evidence that the picture on the ID had been manipulated.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram accounts also uncovered what appears to a profile revealing that Natalia’s first husband - identified as Andrey Vovk - had links to pro-Russian rebels in Donbas.
Ukraine claims Natalia’s ex-husband, Andrey, was actually a pro-Russian sympathiser who tried to organise a sham referendum in Donbas after Putin’s last invasion
Ukraine claims Natalia’s ex-husband, Andrey, was actually a pro-Russian sympathiser who tried to organise a sham referendum in Donbas after Putin’s last invasion
Andrey, whose identity appears on a database tracking Ukrainian ‘traitors’, is accused of helping to organise a sham referendum on breaking away from Ukraine.
All of which suggests, though does not prove, that Natalia may have harboured sympathies with Russia more than with Ukraine.
Proekt also uncovered inconsistencies in social media accounts.
According to Danil Shaban’s Vkontakte page he was born in the year 2000, which would make him 22 years old. And according to the FSB, Sofia Shaban was 12 years old when she came with her mother into Russia two months ago.
Pictures of Natalia on social media show her with two children - a boy and a girl - who both bear a striking resemblance to her and to each-other, but who appear to be a similar age rather than 10 years apart.
Further, the site claims the advert for the Mini Cooper was posted the day before the blast and that a video on Danil’s TikTok shows him driving a similar vehicle in Kyiv on August 16 - when Natalia was supposed to be with the car in Moscow.
Darya Dugina
The conflicting accounts of Natalia’s true identity further muddy the waters of an already murky case, with sources suggesting the bomb was the work of disgruntled Russian elites targeting Putin’s inner circle or an FSB ‘false flag’ operation.
Yawn.
She was a worker in the Russian Nationalist (or supremacist, these days) media. In war the enemy propagandists are valid targets. The Russians themselves have said so repeatedly.
Not only that, the young woman was the likely target as she was an activist
I never did get an answer to my open question. Multiple times. From anybody. At least answers that made a whiff of sense.
National humility in the US is so far in the red that provoking a war 4000 miles away, and then losing it, might actually do us some good.
This entire situation stems from failure to adhere to the terms of Minsk. Ukraine, France, Germany, signed the agreement and it was ratified as a UN Resolution. Here it is. US State dept. pretends it doesn’t exist.
None of the parties did a damn thing about it, in fact, Ukraine for eight years was built up as a US/NATO launching pad for weapons aimed at Russia. US backed forces have been shelling Donbass the entire time. Russia complained and warned about this repeatedly for a long time and now we’re surprised and indignant they’ve decided to stop talking and fight.
Just because things are not spoon fed by Fox and Friends does not absolve anyone from ignorance.
If you're still expecting a cogent response, especially from some of the handles further up this post, you'll have shuffled off this mortal coil before you see one, if even then...
I don’t expect an answer because there are no answers and I think it is important to point it out that none of them have a leg to stand. Here is the question I posed, that was mostly met with hyperbole and name calling and nothing else.
“On what recent success of such activity (US backed proxy wars) do *any* of you rely upon to reach the conclusion the outcome of this one will be anything other than unnecessary death and destruction or of any benefit to anyone at all.
Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan?”
You didn't get an answer because you're premise is BS. 'This entire situation stems from' - its actually because of Russian little green men in Ukraine and then Putin's outright invasion of Ukraine.
So much for another collaborator!
Uh yeah, she was.
Let it be known that my open question was posed to the entire cadre of warmongering misfits who’ve made a nest on FR for the purpose of spreading repetitive, ignorant nonsense.
Contemporary Russia’s relationship with international law is not simply a question of international relations. International law is SUPPOSED TO HAVE a privileged place in the Russian legal system.
Section four of article 15 of the 1993 Russian Constitution enshrines the supremacy of international treaties and agreements in case of a conflict with Russian domestic law.
But in recent years, this privileged position has been undermined BY PUTIN!!!.
You never answered my open question. None of you have.
“Your question: On what recent success of such activity (US backed proxy wars) do *any* of you rely upon to reach the conclusion the outcome of this one will be anything other than unnecessary death and destruction or of any benefit to anyone at all.”
As I shared before, your “proxy” wars are not equal nor proxy. Your premise is so wrong.
Contemporary Russia’s relationship with international law is not simply a question of international relations. International law is SUPPOSED TO HAVE a privileged place in the Russian legal system.
Section four of article 15 of the 1993 Russian Constitution enshrines the supremacy of international treaties and agreements in case of a conflict with Russian domestic law.
But in recent years, this privileged position has been undermined BY PUTIN!!!.
FIRST: When Ukrainians voted for independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, all of its 24 “oblasts,” or regions – including Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea – supported Ukraine independence. The minority of ethnic Russians were included as Ukrainian citizens in an independent state voted for independence.
The ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine’s east did not automatically support the separatists or want to be part of Russia. Since 2014, some 1.5 million people have left the Donbass to live in other parts of Ukraine.
The exact point is the minority ethically Russian or Russian speakers other ethnic minorities in Crimea & Donbass region were living peacefully For most of the first two decades after Ukraine independence. In other words, being an ethnic Russian or a Russian speaker does not indicate that one sees its self as part of the Russian World.
There has been an increase in sentiment of a strong, unified Ukrainian identity since 1991. Most Ukrainians see their future as a sovereign country that is part of Europe. Of course, this directly contradicts Putin’s goals.
Putin ATTTEMPTS to invoke the concept of the “Russian World” or “Russkiy Mir” – that Russian civilization extends to EVERYWHERE that ethnic Russians live NO MATTER WHERE RUSSIANS ARE IN THE WORLD!
CUTE! Little Putin attempts to justify ‘one world government’ with hims as Emporor!
Obviously, we’ve reached an impasse.
If sending billions of dollars for weapons 4000 miles away is not a proxy war nothing is.
You skip right over the part where this type of activity benefits anyone, no matter what you decide to call it. You can furnish no examples. Prepare yourself for reality.
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