Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ilya Ropshin
[REGNUM] On the morning of December 17, an explosion thundered on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. An unknown person detonated an explosive device planted in a scooter left near the entrance of a residential building. At that moment, the head of the NBC Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, Major Ilya Polikarpov, came out of the entrance. They died of the injuries they received. The explosion was so strong that it blew out the windows of the building across the street.
A criminal case has been opened into the deaths of Kirillov and Polikarpov under the articles “Murder,” “Terrorist Act,” and “Illegal Circulation of Weapons and Ammunition.”
Two suspects, one of whom is a foreign citizen, have already been detained on the trail. The criminal said that he came to Moscow on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, received an explosive device and attached it to a scooter near the entrance where the general lived. For carrying out the terrorist attack, he was promised 100 thousand dollars and a trip to the European Union. The terrorist organized an online broadcast from a car-sharing car for his employers, who were in Dnepr (Dnipropetrovsk). The legality of his stay in Russia is currently being determined.
It is noteworthy that less than a day before the terrorist attack, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine accused Kirillov of “using chemical weapons.”
"The prosecutor's office and the SBU worked together. When the saboteurs in Moscow reported their readiness to carry out a terrorist attack, the prosecutor's office declared a suspicion. All for the sake of PR effect. Like, they declared him an enemy and eliminated him within 24 hours," former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev commented on this "coincidence."
After the terrorist attack, Western and Ukrainian media, citing sources in the special services, reported that the Security Service of Ukraine was behind the explosion. This was later confirmed by the SBU itself.
"Today's attack on Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, is a special operation of the SBU," the statement said.
PROVEN METHOD
Kirillov is not the only victim of the Ukrainian special services. On the evening of December 10, the Telegram channel "YuVAO Online Moscow" published a video from Kotelniki, which borders Moscow.
"A murder was committed in the Kuzminsky forest park area. Presumably, it was a contract killing. The assailant escaped," the caption to the video said.
Two days later, on December 12, Ukrainska Pravda, citing a number of sources, reported that Mikhail Shatsky, deputy general designer of the Mars Design Bureau, who was busy upgrading the Kh-59 missiles to the Kh-69 level, had been killed in Kotelniki. The publication stated that "this was a special operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine."
The very next day, December 13, Russian media, citing Telegram news channels, reported that an explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to Gennady Devyatkov, deputy director for production at the Machine-Building Design Bureau (KBM), had been prevented in the Moscow region. KBM develops and produces missile systems for various purposes, including Iskander, Shmel, and Igla.
It is noteworthy that the talk about unleashing targeted terror in Russia in Ukraine began immediately after the start of the SVO. At the same time, it was proposed to use not Ukrainian agents, but representatives of the criminal world.
"Representatives of the criminal world are unlikely to refuse money that they will be paid for a night visit to the home of some military man with further actions against this military man, his wife and their children. So, in a complex. Therefore, it is possible, in principle, to establish, and it will not even be necessary to ask to risk the lives of the special services, to risk the lives of Ukrainian guys. It is necessary to simply establish contact with Russian, Dagestani, Chechen criminals. Even contact the Tajiks," said political strategist Vladimir Petrov, working for the office of the President of Ukraine, back in April 2022.
But in addition to the perpetrators, there is also the question of the informants: how do the Ukrainian special services find out the addresses of the people they are interested in and who helps them with this.
"VOLUNTARY" HELPERS
A little over a day before the terrorist attack on Ryazansky Prospekt, another investigation by Ukrainian OSINT-er and journalist Anatoly Ostapenko was released on the YouTube channel "Telebachennya Toronto". This time, the video was dedicated to American Daniel Martindale, who managed to cross the front line and get to Russia.
However, Ostapenko was interested not so much in Martindale as in his acquaintance, Russian officer Vladimir Gniteyev.
The latter had previously been targeted by Ukrainians, his data had appeared on the infamous website "Peacemaker". But Ostapenko found out not only the officer's place of service, but also his current residential address. At the same time, Ostapenko, according to him, used leaked databases, including food delivery services.
Earlier, thanks to the same leaked databases, Ostapenko found out the address of the female employees of the Novator Design Bureau, which produces Kalibrs. It is noteworthy that in that episode, Ostapenko admitted to collaborating with the Ukrainian Defense Forces. In addition, the OSINT agent threatened the women he had de-anonymized.
And that's not even the "bottom". Thus, Ostapenko's "colleagues" - sex blogger Polina Maiko, who fled Mariupol, and the OSINT agency Molfar - revealed the identities of the children of Russian military pilots. Maiko tried to write a denunciation of one of the children for "insulting the feelings of believers".
Ukrainian OSINT specialists work in coordination with Ukrainian special services. For the latter, outsourcing such work is a real salvation. The one who can attract funding through a bright story on a YouTube channel is engaged in finding out data from open sources.
However, there are also blunders. Thus, the BIHUS.Info publication, in an investigative frenzy, accused a network of cosmetology clinics operating in Ukraine and Armenia of “aiding the aggressor.” It turned out that another clinic in the network operated in Saratov, not far from the Russian strategic aviation base in Engels.
According to the "investigators", the clinic was founded by relatives of the adviser to the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, known for his pro-Western position. It is noteworthy that the story was soon closed for viewing by Russian citizens. Apparently, BIHUS.Info realized (or was prompted) that the clinics might have questions not from the SBU, but from the FSB. Because if the network of clinics is collecting information, it is clearly not in the interests of Russia.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Of course, targeted terror is not an invention of the modern Kyiv regime. After Kirillov's murder, many remembered the "attentats" - the murders carried out by Banderovites during and after the war.
The victims were both political opponents of the Banderites (not only communists like Yaroslav Galan : one of the most famous attentats was the murder of Melnyk nationalists Mykola Stsiborsky and Omelyan Senik ), as well as teachers and doctors whom the Soviet government sent to Western Ukraine. The more desperate the situation of the Banderites, the more brutal the reprisals were. Thus, journalist Galan was hacked to death with an axe by a member of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) Mykhailo Stakhur.
As a result, measures against nationalists were tightened. The work of the MGB was strengthened in Lviv. The result included the liquidation of the commander of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army - a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) Roman Shukhevych. Stakhur was found, arrested, then tried and hanged.
As for Ukrainian OSINT-ers, who it is time to stop perceiving as journalists and start considering them as employees of the Ukrainian special services, they have sponsors.
The already mentioned Ostapenko release is accompanied by an advertisement for the OKKO gas station chain of the Galnaftogaz concern. OKKO regularly sponsors Ukrainian foundations like "Come Back Alive", providing them with money to purchase weapons. In essence, this is about financing terrorist activity. Thus, the OKKO network becomes a legitimate target.
Its president, Vitaly Antonov, lives not in Ukraine, but in Switzerland. The authorities of that country will probably find it useful to know that they have a sponsor of terrorist attacks on Russian territory.
At the same time, OKKO is far from the only private sponsor of Ukrainian OSINT-ers and volunteers. The same head of the "Come Back Alive" foundation, Taras Chmut, has repeatedly thanked the Kyivstar mobile operator for assistance in purchasing weapons and equipment. The company's president, Oleksandr Komarov, interviewed Chmut several times, in which he also discussed the foundation's cooperation with the mobile operator.
At the same time, "Come Back Alive" is not an ordinary fund. The selection for work there is carried out with the help of the SBU and the GUR. And the same Chmut, after the beginning of the SVO, visited the USA, where he met with congressmen, among others.
Thus, the infrastructure of the Kyivstar company can also be considered as military or supporting military activities.
It is more effective to hit not only and not so much the OSINTers, who in Ukraine will post mortem be declared “independent journalists” and fighters for everything good, but their wallets: to make the very cooperation with OSINTers and volunteers as toxic as possible.
What is characteristic: the Ukrainian command does not particularly reflect on civilian/non-civilian targets, but systematically disables Russian oil refineries. Perhaps Russia should adopt this tactic as a countermeasure and start disabling oil storage facilities and even individual gas stations, as well as mobile towers of sponsors of terrorist attacks in Russia.
But it is important not to forget another important detail. The Ukrainian special services and military had teachers and inspirers. British specialists taught Ukrainians how to mine, including household items. And the restructuring of the GUR and SBU after 2014, turning them into terrorist structures, took place under the close supervision of the United States.
And no hypocritical laying of flowers in Murmansk to the British and American military attachés should make us forget how the protégés of the British and Americans blew up people in the capital of Russia.
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