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2025-04-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin hosts ex-hostages at Kremlin, hails Hamas for ‘humanitarian act’ of freeing them
[IsraelTimes] Russian leader tells Sasha Troufanov, his mother and partner of ‘need to express words of gratitude’ to political heads of terror group who murdered his father during Oct. 7 attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
met Wednesday evening with freed hostage Sasha Troufanov at the Kremlin in Moscow, along with his mother, Elena Trufanova, and partner, Sapir Cohen, both of whom are also former captives.

"The fact that you managed to go free is the result of the fact that Russia has stable, long-term relations with the Paleostinian people, with its representatives, and with a wide variety of organizations," Putin told the ex-hostages in a video clip from the meeting published by the state-funded RT television network.

He also hailed Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
for its "humanitarian act" of releasing them: "We need to express words of gratitude to the leadership of the political wing of Hamas for cooperating with us and carrying out this humanitarian act."

"We will do everything to ensure that such acts happen as often as possible and that all the people who are still in the same conditions that you had been in... are also released," Putin added, sighing deeply in response to Troupanov telling him that he was held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
for 498 days.

Troufanov and Cohen were taken hostage by Paleostinian faceless myrmidons from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, along with Sasha’s mother and grandmother Irena Tati, while his father and Elana’s husband Vitaly Troufanov was murdered during the Hamas-led atrocities.

The three women were freed during a November 2023 ceasefire, with Trufanova and Tati released in a gesture to Putin, while Sasha Troufanov was returned from Gaza in February amid the multi-phase truce agreement mediated by the United States, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Egypt that collapsed in March.

The meeting at the Kremlin was also attended by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar and President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Alexander Boroda, according to Putin’s office, which published a video of the meeting alongside a readout with little substantial information.

Russia has ties to all key players in the Middle East, including Israel, Iran, and Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, as well as the Paleostinian Authority and Hamas.

Days before Troufanov’s release from Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
captivity in February, a deputy Russian foreign minister met with a senior Hamas official in Moscow and urged the terror group to keep "promises" to release Troufanov, a dual Russian-Israeli citizen, and Maxim Herkin, a current Israeli hostage from the Donbas area of Ukraine who has Russian relatives.

Earlier this month, Hamas released a propaganda video featuring Herkin and fellow hostage Bar Kupershtein, the first sign of life from both men since they were kidnapped by faceless myrmidons from the Nova music festival near Re’im.

Herkin, who was 35 at the time of his abduction, has a three-year-old daughter, and was the primary provider for his mother and 11-year-old brother. He attended the Nova festival by chance, invited by friends at the last minute. It was the first time he had gone to a rave.

In February, a top Hamas leader said that Herkin would be prioritized during the second stage of the hostage deal, if it were to be signed, as a gesture to the Russian government. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the agreement between Israel and Hamas fell apart after its first stage, with Israel renewing the fighting in Gaza last month.

Including Herkin and Kupershtein, 24 hostages are believed to still be alive of the 59 total hostages that remain in captivity in Gaza.
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