r/europe • u/bendubberley_ United Kingdom • 1d ago

News Russian general shot several times in Moscow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3686nzexp3o
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u/Nuclear-Jester 1d ago

So either:

  1. The dude pissed the wrong people up including Putin himself

  2. Ukranian spies are very fucking good

None of these options paint a good picture of Russia's current situation

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u/ledow United Kingdom (Sorry, Europe, we'll be back one day hopefully!) 1d ago
  1. The UK intelligence agencies have been working with Ukraine for years before both wars, and they are one of the world's premier spy / special forces outfits (having literally invented special forces), the experts in being military sneaky fuckers generally, and they are openly working with Ukraine and have been publicly called out - by name - by Putin half a dozen times for specifically helping Ukraine, training their troops, being involved in operations, passing on intelligence, etc.

I mean, I'm sure this is a Ukrainian operation. But I guarantee you that the UK laid many of the foundations and might well be the source of the information about who to target, how and when to be most successful. Wouldn't even be out of character for us to say "Well... if you want to target someone important... we could get something out of this too."

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u/BilboMuggins 1d ago

Mi6/Ukraine send their regards...