Putin’s ‘War Group’ Under Siege: 8 High-Profile Assassinations Causing Kremlin To Shake | World News
A wave of sophisticated targeted killings is decimating the ranks of Russia’s military and political elite. The final victim, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, was killed in a car bomb attack in the heart of Moscow on Monday, December 22; This was the eighth high-profile “purge” of a member of Putin’s war machine in the past 18 months.
Russian investigators launched an investigation into what was seen as a major security breach in the capital. Although Ukraine has an official “no comment” policy regarding operations on Russian territory, the precision of these hits points to the existence of a well-established intelligence network operating behind enemy lines.
NEW Attack: Lieutenant-Gen. Fanil Sarvarov (December 22)
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Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov (56), Head of the Operational Training Department of the Russian Armed Forces, died instantly when an IED placed under the white Kia Sorento exploded in a Moscow parking lot.
Coup: He was said to be one of the key strategists of the troops currently stationed in Ukraine. His death is a great loss for the Russian army’s operational readiness.
‘Hit List’: 7 Other Figures Eliminated by ‘Targeted’
Apart from Sarvarov, there are eight other influential people, including military commanders and propagandists.
1. Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik (April)
The Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate was killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow. As someone with extensive experience in the Normandy Format negotiations, his death was seen by foreign intelligence officials as a “purge of the high command”.
2. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov (December)
A high-tech terrorist attack resulted in the death of the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Corps when a bomb placed on an electric scooter was detonated using a remote-controlled device in Moscow, as Ukraine accused him of directing chemical attacks.
3. Valery Nikolaevich Trankovsky (November)
He was the First Rank Captain and Chief of Staff of the 41st Missile Ship Brigade and was targeted in Sevastopol, Crimea. According to the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine, targeting a commander who was guilty of cruise missile attacks on civilians, his car was blown up in a successful operation.
4. Andrey Korotkiy (October)
The security chief of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, occupied by Russia, was killed by a bomb placed in his car in Enerhodar. He was described as a “collaborator and spy” by the Ukrainian government for providing the personal information of pro-Ukrainian workers at the factory to the FSB.
5. Illia Kyva (December)
A former Ukrainian member of parliament who defected to support Putin was shot dead in Suponevo, near Moscow. It was confirmed by the SBU that this person, who was convicted in absentia for treason, was killed during a “special operation” against traitors.
6. Stanislav Rzhitsky (July)
The former commander of the submarine Krasnodar was shot while walking in the city of Krasnodar. This assassination was carried out by assassins who located the former commander using the Strava fitness application. This former commander was accused of firing missiles that hit and killed dozens of civilians in the city of Vinnytsia.
7. Vladlen Tatarsky (April)
Prominent pro-war military blogger, St. He was killed when a bomb placed inside a figurine exploded in a cafe in St. Petersburg. This was an attack on the center of the Kremlin government’s propaganda apparatus.
8. Darya Dugina (Aug 20)
Her daughter had been killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow; American intelligence analysis would reveal that this was carried out by hardline elements of the Ukrainian government; This showed that Putin’s inner circle did not feel vulnerable to conflict.
Kremlin on High Alert: ‘War of Shadows’
“The pattern of these attacks – a combination of car bombs, remote-controlled scooters and electronic monitoring – is consistent with the escalation of the conflict into the so-called War of Shadows,” Sputnik News service said.
“The pattern of these attacks (a combination of car bombs, remote-controlled scooters and electronic monitoring) is consistent with an escalation of the conflict into the so-called War of Shadows,” Business Standard quoted Sputnik News as saying.
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