Arkadiy Babchenko is alive. This is mind-boggling
Even within the SBU this was a highly compartmentalized operation, a couple of people only knew details .
Splainer: SBU/ Babchenko say RU services recruited a Ukrainian citizen to hire a contract killer. He hired a military veteran for 30k. The vet informed Ukraine's secret service & collaborated to fool "broker" that murder went thru. This permitted SIGNIT to track source of order.
SBU says this was part of larger planned array of attacks on anti-Kremlin figures, which has now been nipped. I expect they & certainly Babchenko will be releasing evidence, lest this backfires. However, I doubt Babchenko would go for this crazy stunt on insufficient evidence.
To clarify possible confusion: despite Babchenko public apology to his wife for "the nightmare he caused", this doesn't mean she didn't know (she did, as did the kids).
IC source: "We had to come up a new method to fight back in this asymmetric hybrid war."
RussiaToday's editor in chief Margarita Simonyan "He's alive? Well, let him be alive then. And let the earth under him be glassy" (a Russian saying about a disliked dead man roughly equivalent to "let him not rest in peace")
By popular demand: here's video of the moment the broker was detained today: #TheAmericans #SBU #Babchenko
And an undercover video/audio recording of the moment the organizer hands over the downpayment to the assumed "killer"...plus an undefined "instrument"...on April 27th
Duma near-abroad chief Kalashnikov: "This is either a provocation against Russia, to derail North Stream-2, just like #Skripal, or, there was indeed a price on his head, but put on him by someone in Ukraine".
SBU now clarify main reason for proceeding with faked "success" of hitjob: they had intercepted discussion of "other targets", a total of 30, to be handed down to intermediary upon success of firsr target. SBU claim they did get the list before grabbing intermediary
SBU will publish the complete dossier compiled by whoever ordered #Banchenko's murder including passport and credit card details. Not sure if they'll release the full target list as that would be laden with privacy issues
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