Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one
Seems good to have the russia rethink their system of paying for assasinations.
They do tend to be pretty vindictive.
But it is kind of a funny concept, which is sort of an anodyne for an otherwise, really horrible situation. The Ukraine war is experiencing WWI-level casualties.
>They do tend to be pretty vindictive.
I don't think it's any more risky for the Ukrainian military. They've already collectively been on Russia's wanted list for years and it's not like the country might get invaded by the Russian army any harder since it would have already happened long ago.
Haven't we already reached that point? They were trying to kill a guy ...
There's a war going on you know right?
But my original comment was unclear, so it’s my bad.
Ukraine has nothing more to fear from Russia, because Russia doesn't have anything else to threaten them with apart from nukes, which also is not an option that will give them victory.
If the money stayed in the Russian banking system, I can imagine they could've seized the recipient account, and transferring such a large amount out of the country would be difficult (although it's peanuts in the world of dark finances)
Meanwhile, I find it is quite telling that the Telegraph paints him as "one of the most prominent anti-Putin Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine" and quotes him saying “We fight to change something in Russia. When the war ends, I will continue fighting until Putin falls,” while completely failing to mention what he is fighting for.
His nickname "White Rex" might give a clue, though.
Here is how a Reuters article describes him:
"The RVC was founded by Moscow-born Denis Kapustin, also known as Denis Nikitin or by the nom de guerre White Rex. The Antifascist Europe monitoring project says he is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist.
Nikitin, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has frequently described himself as a nationalist fighting for a Russia that belongs to ethnic Russians" [0]
He used to live in Europe and before the war Germans had something to say about him too:
"The interior ministry of Herbert Reul (CDU) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, called him "one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists" in Germany, and noted that he professionalized the fighting subculture in the country."[1]
That's the kind of Russians that chooses to fight along with current Ukrainian regime and gets glorified by Western media.
It fills me with disgust how Western propaganda works.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-russians-end-up-far...
[1] https://www.bfmtv.com/international/asie/russie/guerre-en-uk...
Not so.
> Denis Kapustin, a far-Right extremist and former football hooligan, ...
> Since 2019, he has been banned from entering the Schengen Area for promoting neo-Nazi ideology.
from the article.
I scrolled through the irrelevant section "Outsmarting Russians" devoted to the events that has been reported on many times before, but they buried two paragraphs about this "commander" being a Nazi there. I don't think many people would read through this haystack of already known events in search of the needle they don't even know is there.
"The drones had been smuggled into Russia and assembled, and launched from trucks deep within Russian territory, in another huge victory for Ukraine’s spies.
Ukraine’s latest intelligence success means Denis Kapustin, a far-Right extremist and former football hooligan, is inside Ukrainian territory and “preparing to continue carrying out assigned tasks”, said a Ukrainian commander.
The commander’s family moved from Moscow to Germany when Mr Kapustin was 17 and he relocated to Ukraine in 2017.
Since 2019, he has been banned from entering the Schengen Area for promoting neo-Nazi ideology."
Quite abrupt switch of topic, don't you think? It's like the editor cut and pasted these paragraphs from more prominent place to the place which 90% of readers won't read. It's not the first time I see this dark pattern in Western media.
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Vs
"...on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
These aren't very close. Big fan of hitchhikers guide though.
Not true.
vga42•1mo ago
kotaKat•1mo ago
They give clip 1 of Kapustin running into a van in a (slightly) open environment, into the sliding doors, the drone crashing in... then cut to a second clip in a fenced environment with what appears to be an SUV with outward opening doors on fire.