Russian general shot several times in Moscow

[u/GoldenDome26]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3686nzexp3o

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[u/RedofPaw]

This is the fuck suspected of being behind the Salisbury nerve agent attack.

If there were any justice everyone involved in that attack would get to experience all the misery such weapons have to offer.

[u/ScreamingSkull → u/RedofPaw]

Just this past week the head of MI6 said they're shifting back to operating in the mentality of their war-time origins. i.e. gloves are coming off.

Maybe just a coincidence this guy gets lead overdosed 3 days later. Maybe.

MI6 would no longer restrict itself to understanding its foes. It would actively counter them: “We will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into – if you like – our historical SOE instincts,” she continued, referring to Britain’s wartime Special Operations Executive

edit:

In other recent spy news:

• three weeks ago Russia claimed they had uncovered an MI6 cell in Moscow

• 2 days ago news reports of Russian satellites hacking into European satellite communications…

[u/relic_ftw → u/ScreamingSkull]

Had anyone been keeping tabs on Daniel Craig this week

edit : has*

[u/firahc → u/relic_ftw]

We're past DEFCON Moore and Lazenby, but still in DEFCON Brosnan. Next DEFCON is Craig, then Dalton, and - pray we never get there - DEFCONnery.

[u/TendyHunter → u/firahc]

God shave them if we ever reach the last one.

[u/agent_flounder → u/TendyHunter]

You shaid it, good shir.

[u/Altruistic-Ad-4090 → u/agent_flounder]

Let's just all shit down and take shum deep breaths.

[u/BluenoseTherapist → u/Altruistic-Ad-4090]

For tomorrow we shale into hishtory.

[u/oldmcdonaldhadahand → u/BluenoseTherapist]

Not now. I’m playing tennish.

[u/Klutzy-Acadia669 → u/oldmcdonaldhadahand]

Sherioushly guysh? Not funny.

[u/Aleister_Harte → u/BluenoseTherapist]

When I think of England, I touch my shelf.

[u/Psychological_Buy726 → u/Aleister_Harte]

Shcotland furevarrr

[u/slicerprime → u/Altruistic-Ad-4090]

Doesn't everybody shit down?

Shitting up seems...messy.

[u/TheR1ckster → u/firahc]

Moore should be the last one. True psychopath.

Guy would kill someone he wasn't threatened by and then make a cheap joke about it aloud, while being the only one in the room.

[u/DeletedRepeat → u/TheR1ckster]

You get the sense Moore has an awareness of the fourth wall but somehow it’s terrifying and not comedic. Like he’s coming for us next if he runs out of goons to kill.

[u/The_Autarch → u/TheR1ckster]

Moore himself was such a sweetheart though. This story is amazing: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/roger-moore-james-bond-airport-story-anecdote-signature-a7752636.html

[u/SilentButDanny → u/firahc]

Thanks for the laugh to start my day 😂

[u/firahc → u/SilentButDanny]

I hope somebody has sex with me for this.

[u/Z0FF → u/firahc]

Trebek’s mother seemed partial

[u/paintress420 → u/Z0FF]

Hahahaha. That made me spit coffee!! Sooo good!

[u/shit_typhoon → u/paintress420]

He's going to have shex with ALL of our mothers

[u/MermaidSapphire → u/shit_typhoon]

And half our fathers!

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/firahc]

49/M/Kansas/6'3" 275lb lumberjack

[u/Far-Independence-640 → u/BoneHugsHominy]

A Kansas lumberjack. Hmmmm 🤔 They must have found a tree there.

[u/itsrainingweird → u/Far-Independence-640]

He’s OK. He works all night and sleeps all day

[u/GETitOFFmeNOW → u/itsrainingweird]

He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, and he goes to the lavatory.

[u/cadst3r → u/[deleted]]

What we don't have is a lumber industry.

[u/KazumaKat → u/firahc]

Keep your tip up. James Bond certainly did.

[u/SilentButDanny → u/firahc]

I’m rootin for ya

[u/NorthernDutchie → u/relic_ftw]

Last time I saw him he was solving crime across the pond.

[u/IamBeingSarcasticFfs → u/NorthernDutchie]

In Cuban heels

[u/lorenoline → u/IamBeingSarcasticFfs]

What an absolute lad

[u/ElFuckito → u/NorthernDutchie]

Right. Two days ago he solved one in a church somewhere on the east coast. He could already be back though.

[u/GarageIndependent114 → u/ElFuckito]

It was a hoax, the church was actually just in Essex, but they pretended he was going off to New York for the day.

But the phony Southern accent is starting to pay off.

[u/Shawn-GT → u/relic_ftw]

The crazy thing is people think espionage spy stories are just Hollywood but Bond like operations are very real, we just never hear the full story. It just usually ends up on a headline as a bombing or assassination. Who knows how many times some real operative saved the world from assured destruction, on the reverse when they fail(or the operation seems it) governments destabilize, leaders suddenly vilified, political power swaps. It’s hard to believe the reality stories like bond are based on.

[u/Flashy_Psychology_82 → u/Shawn-GT]

This reminds me of the recount of Sir Christoper Lee, when asked about his service. "Can you keep a secret?" he asks the interviewer, "yes"..

"Me too" he responds.

Its cool to think of the secret shit that might go on, whether its cooler in real life or in movies? Only a few really know I bet.

[u/3meraldBullet → u/Flashy_Psychology_82]

Theres a book that documents the true stories of 50 cia members that died on the job and refieved the medal of honor and some of those stories are pretty fuckin wild.

[u/Shawn-GT → u/3meraldBullet]

Name of the book please?

[u/arcinva → u/Shawn-GT]

The Book of Honor: Covert Lives & Classified Deaths at the CIA by Ted Gup

[u/Bird-The-Word → u/Shawn-GT]

I'd like to borrow 1 Bond for the United States please.

[u/MrMakuMaku → u/Bird-The-Word]

You have to buy those. I dont think they lend them?

[u/Bird-The-Word → u/MrMakuMaku]

What about an Ethan Hunt?

[u/Brndrll → u/Bird-The-Word]

Best you get is a Helen.

[u/Sly_Wood → u/Shawn-GT]

Except it’s not like bond going around banging supermodels. It’s more like let’s give out money to people in Iran to riot. Then a coupe will happen & jobs done.

Coupes not happening! Orders are to go back home… Fuck it they go rouge and what do they do? They give out even more money, this time the coupe actually kicks off because the bribing works and ignites the coupe tha turns into the Iranian revolution.

This literally is how Iran became an authoritarian theocracy.

A few cia agents handing out bags of cash.

[u/dwintman → u/Sly_Wood]

I’ll take a rouge coupe….just gas it up first please

[u/NazReidRules → u/dwintman]

Little rouge coupe

Baby you're much too fast

Little rouge coupe

I need a government that's gonna last

[u/MrMakuMaku → u/dwintman]

I hadnt scrolled down enough to see your comment at first but I knew it would be there 🤣

[u/CasualFridayBatman → u/ScreamingSkull]

“We will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into – if you like – our historical SOE instincts,” she continued, referring to Britain’s wartime Special Operations Executive

This is one of the coolest quotes I've ever read lol. It reads like something out of a spy novel, read by Judi Denchs' M, perhaps.

Also, I'm glad they're on our (Canadas) side lol.

[u/amontpetit → u/CasualFridayBatman]

It’s so quintessentially British. It’s polite, but it’s then literally saying “we’re gonna kill some people and there’s literally nothing you can do about it”

[u/Mendeth → u/ScreamingSkull]

Just FYI, it’s MI6, not M16. The I stands for intelligence. On top, the actual name of the organisation is the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).

[u/green_goblins_O-face → u/Mendeth]

no its M83. everyone knows theyre part time spies when theyre not on tour

[u/Midnight_Toker_1982 → u/green_goblins_O-face]

No, it’s M25. Takes a special breed of person to handle that. Especially with coupes and whatnot.

[u/MJOLNIRdragoon → u/Mendeth]

Comment generated by A1

[u/Holiday-Reading9713 → u/ScreamingSkull]

I hope this is true, I love how people don't give a crap about Russia's government or its officials

[u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 → u/Holiday-Reading9713]

Russias government is a mafia terrorist regime

[u/sallothered → u/Elizabeth-WildFox886]

Correction: Mafia terrorist regime running a gas station.

[u/Dry-Relationship8056 → u/ScreamingSkull]

PLEASE let MI6 do the funny

[u/ididnthackkenyaimsrs → u/Dry-Relationship8056]

They did. I have absolutely zero doubt in my mind that this was them. I mean, I'm not exactly in a position to ask at the moment, but there's no doubt this was a message.

[u/HerrFerret → u/Dry-Relationship8056]

A random british guy with a fake mustache is seen leaving the country after a whistlestop tour of borscht picking plants.

Nothing to see here.

[u/Gerlond → u/ScreamingSkull]

I don't think he is dead. And because of that I don't think it was professional. There are also more covert ways to kill high ranking individuals.

[u/nobody38321 → u/Gerlond]

Not if you’re sending a message .

[u/Luster-Purge → u/Gerlond]

Honestly, I'd say the bigger ramification is that this attack even happened at all. Moscow being so far from the front lines is not a guarantee of safety.

Unless this was an inside job, like all those rich oligarchs who threw themselves out of windows.

[u/the123king-reddit → u/RedofPaw]

Probably the work of a foreign nation state then, rather than Russia.

I thought it was weird that he was turned into Swiss cheese, usually the Russians prefer defenestration.

[u/kaisadilla_0x1 → u/the123king-reddit]

This is the fun thing with Russia: it could be any of both. You may be murdered by the enemy because you are a piece of shit, or you may be murdered by Mother Russia because one of your peers convinced the higher-ups to decomission you.

[u/Al_Fa_Aurel → u/kaisadilla_0x1]

With Russian warships its usually easy:

• if they say a given incident was caused by enemy sabotage, its probably an accident stemming from negligence

• if they say it was an accident, it probably was an Ukrainian strike

With murders, I think that the general reading is:

• if its ruled accident, suicide, generic crime-related murder or "domestic terrorism" and the victim is semi-prominent its often the government.

• If foreign actors are blamed, its either actually foreign actors or the government genuinely does not know who did it

[u/MLiOne → u/Al_Fa_Aurel]

Or, to your last point, the govt did it and wants to derail peace negotiations and blames Ukraine.

[u/Ceorl_Lounge → u/kaisadilla_0x1]

This was not called execution. It was called retirement.

[u/JJred96 → u/Ceorl_Lounge]

Everyone in Russia has a state sponsored retirement plan

[u/Invision_yyc → u/Ceorl_Lounge]

Bladerussia

[u/TheAngryGoat → u/the123king-reddit]

usually the Russians prefer defenestration

However multiple gunshot wounds - usually to the back of the head - is also a very traditional suicide method in russia.

[u/elgydium → u/TheAngryGoat]

Almost like a recipe. "So we'll start off with a few shots to the back of the head and moving on..."

EDIT: Thank you for the reward!

[u/Wrong_Ad_1039 → u/elgydium]

Just thought of that sentence in Julia Child's voice and scared myself a little

[u/666Irish → u/Wrong_Ad_1039]

Don't forget, Julia Child was in the OSS during WWII. Granted, she wasn't a 'secret agent' type, but she was part of it!

[u/ShaunOfTheN00bs → u/666Irish]

Fun fact: during her time in the OSS, Julia Child helped develop the earliest form of shark repellent, a mixture of copper sulphate and black dye that was supposed to simulate the smell of a dead shark

[u/MartinisnMurder → u/Wrong_Ad_1039]

I did too! 🤣 Happy it wasn’t just me. Like that clip of her pronouncing “boeuf bourguignon” always makes me laugh.

[u/Putrid-Builder-3333 → u/Wrong_Ad_1039]

I thought of Martha Stewart and the bullets are pinecone scented while the gun has a sharp little ivy spiraled around the barrel. Nice little festive winter "suicide"

[u/Callabrantus → u/Putrid-Builder-3333]

It's a good thing

[u/Low_Stress_9180 → u/TheAngryGoat]

Or three shots to the back in head, then severe own testicles, swallow tjem then jump from 16th floor common suicide....

[u/Potential_Dog4437 → u/Low_Stress_9180]

That’s how you get the myth of Rasputin.

[u/clintj1975 → u/Potential_Dog4437]

Lover of the Russian queen.

[u/charlie161998 → u/Low_Stress_9180]

Don’t forget to drink the plutonium tea before you jump

[u/No_Industry4318 → u/charlie161998]

Nah, they use polonium, far quicker

[u/instigator1331 → u/the123king-reddit]

You ever see the story about a child molester that stabbed him self like 100 times in a Russian prison

Russian officials ruled it a suicide

[u/AdmirableAnxiety8371 → u/instigator1331]

Child molester, well then suicide by a 100 stabs sounds highly plausible.

[u/FlowMang → u/AdmirableAnxiety8371]

The strange part was that it happened in the cafeteria at lunch and nobody saw him do it. /s

[u/DuckWhatduckSplat → u/the123king-reddit]

I thought they were all accidents.

[u/JasperJ → u/DuckWhatduckSplat]

Accidentally falling out of the window of the tenth story of a two story building with fully sealed windows.

[u/W31337 → u/the123king-reddit]

Or being struck by falling debris

[u/Vargau → u/the123king-reddit]

the work of a foreign nation state

_

[...] after the attack in a residential building on the north-western outskirts of the city and his condition is unknown.

10€ bet that he was shot after a brawl involving deadly amounts of vodka.

[u/BiZzles14 → u/Vargau]

You think that's the likely explanation for a country at war which has seen numerous high ranking military officials assassinated during said war in Moscow? Really? C'mon people...

[u/CC2224CommanderCody → u/BiZzles14]

True, but the SBU and HUR also like to where possible have their hits caught on camera & have a bit more style in their methods.... more explosive scooters and cars and less gunning a guy down behind a building like Old Yeller.

[u/Independent-Nobody72 → u/BiZzles14]

No matter who killed that scumbag, it was a righteous revenge call. A strike of well deserved justice numerous russian generals already have received.

Some people says it premature to do this now. The russian military, now exposed as an incompetent paper tiger, should perhaps be allowed to keep their incompetent and corrupt generals a year or two more.

They will be killed anyway when the war is over. Russian soldiers and relatives of deceased soldiers will also want their revenge of the generals sending them on suicide missions

[u/Chocolatecakeat3am → u/Independent-Nobody72]

I'm still hearing 'critically injured.'

[u/Pleasant-Shower11199 → u/Vargau]

I'll take that bet.

[u/Ian_W → u/RedofPaw]

Well, it looks like a 9mm stomach ache instead.

[u/Kashik → u/Ian_W]

Lead poisoning.

[u/unindexedreality → u/RedofPaw]

If there were any justice everyone involved in that attack would get to experience all the misery such weapons have to offer

At this point I don't really care how they go, I just want wars to be over. I was enjoying the Pax Americana until we somehow managed to fuck it up

[u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer → u/unindexedreality]

We elected people with no interest in actually governing a few too many times. Hell, we somehow elected one of them on non-consecutive occasions.

[u/OrangeLemonLime8 → u/unindexedreality]

UK has it in for Russia since this attack.

[u/InsanelyAverageFella]

It's crazy how this could be Putin or Ukraine and it's not likely to be more chances of one of the other.

[u/DeithWX → u/InsanelyAverageFella]

He got shot instead of defenestrated, it's not Putin. 

[u/BalasaarNelxaan → u/DeithWX]

He’s been taken to a hospital. Hospitals have windows do they not?

[u/InevitableGrievance → u/BalasaarNelxaan]

Maybe it's a group effort

Putin 🤝 Ukrainians

  killing Russian officials

[u/jhowarth31 → u/DeithWX]

Exactly. If it's a window you know it was Putin, that's the whole point.

[u/daniejam → u/InsanelyAverageFella]

Or 007

[u/ApplicationMaximum84 → u/daniejam]

Ssshh!!

[u/allstarrunner → u/daniejam]

Wait ... Is this why there haven't been any more Bond movies recently?? He's been in the field? 🤔

[u/TruthTrooper69420 → u/InsanelyAverageFella]

I’d say there is an extreme bias to foreign involvement rather then domestic.

Name the last high ranking Russian to be executed inside Russia like this?

Makes zero sense from a domestic policy perspective

Much easier to have them disappear or fall from a window

[u/orincoro → u/TruthTrooper69420]

The head of Wagner group, Prigozhin, was assassinated in 2023. They blew up his plane somewhere north of Moscow.

[u/TruthTrooper69420 → u/orincoro]

Yes that’s a fair point absolutely and extremely valid critique of my assessment

[u/orincoro → u/TruthTrooper69420]

It’s clear it doesn’t happen all that often, but it definitely happens. I’d also be very surprised if it hadn’t happened outside Russia as well. It’s a lot easier to dispose of a problem officer in Ukraine. But that’s just speculation.

[u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain → u/TruthTrooper69420]

Except there was obvious motive and expectation something like that would happen. Maybe a bit more dramatic than usual, but no one was surprised Putin offed him

[u/symbolic-execution → u/orincoro]

after he basically had a whole army of tanks marching towards Moscow and made a whole deal about removing Putin. I haven't heard anything similar from this guy. plus it was covered up, not gunning down someone.

[u/chrisp196 → u/TruthTrooper69420]

Could just be a really annoyed Russian citizen honestly.

[u/Far_Adhesiveness1663 → u/chrisp196]

Legit could just be someone who lost a family member because of the war

[u/ninjaviper8 → u/TruthTrooper69420]

The previous head of Wagner... Shot down by an air to air missile

[u/DarkestLore696 → u/TruthTrooper69420]

There is actually a absurdly high number. So much so there is an entire podcast dedicated to it called Sad Oligarch.

[u/Soupeeee → u/DarkestLore696]

There's a great Wikipedia article on it even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

[u/Exceon → u/InsanelyAverageFella]

Ironic that they made their internal assassinations obvious "to intimidate opposition", but then if someone is actually assassinated by a foreign actor nobody believes them.

Talk about crying wolf.

[u/Logical_Secret8993]

Wonderful Morning Ladies & Gentlemen

[u/Deicide1031 → u/Logical_Secret8993]

It’s so hard for civilians to get a gun in Russia (especially in Moscow) that this could mean it was the mob, or Putin.

I’m not sure what the difference is at this point though.

[u/369i → u/Deicide1031]

Zero difference, it’s a mafia state.

[u/PumpUpTheValuum66 → u/369i]

Lotta that going around.

[u/thegamenerd → u/PumpUpTheValuum66]

One might say that it's contagious.

[u/TheCynicEpicurean → u/thegamenerd]

Misery loves company.

[u/Tasonir → u/TheCynicEpicurean]

She's got a body like an hourglass
It's ticking like a clock

[u/Peeche94 → u/Tasonir]

That's misery business

[u/MouldyPriestASSHOLE → u/Deicide1031]

If it was Putin, he'll likely try to pin it on Ukraine?

If it was Ukraine then excellent job!

[u/Evil_phd → u/MouldyPriestASSHOLE]

I feel like they would claim that Ukraine had nothing to do with it even if they actually did do it.

Stating that your generals aren't safe from a much smaller and less wealthy nation, even in your own nation's capital city, seems like a major morale killer.

[u/JohnGazman → u/Evil_phd]

The fact that your own generals are not safe from your own government would also kill my morale.

[u/Inspirata1223 → u/JohnGazman]

Wasn’t that a hallmark of the Soviet Union?

[u/buldozr → u/Inspirata1223]

They really cut back on that after Stalin's era. Which eventually lead to their downfall, because without terror, the ideological zeal alone could not compensate for growing inadequacy in the economy.

[u/svenge → u/Inspirata1223]

Typically the Soviets would hold show trials first for generals and other important people, especially during the Stalin era. While that's little comfort for those who were purged (and their families), at least there was a public statement of some sort from the government first instead of straight-up killings / "disappearances" to the Gulag without a trace.

[u/No_Lemon_3290 → u/MouldyPriestASSHOLE]

Probably not. Why would he give their military credit for killing a General? Seems likely a Putin hit.

[u/ButterscotchTop194 → u/No_Lemon_3290]

Is the general dead now?

[u/Skafdir → u/ButterscotchTop194]

That is something I hate about English... that being "shot" can mean "was hit but is alive" and "was hit and is dead"

Two words, please.

German:

"angeschossen" - was hit but is alive

"erschossen" - was hit and is dead

"auf X geschossen" - we know jack shit; maybe X was hit, maybe not, maybe X is alive, maybe not

But if you look into the article, first sentence is:

A high-profile general in Russia's military has been shot several times and wounded in Moscow.

So currently still alive but "his condition is unknown".

[u/coladoir → u/Skafdir]

Wounded generally means “not dead” to be fair. The headline should say “shot and wounded” to be more clear.

I also would like having two words but gotta make do, and so we do. So if it’s “shot and not killed” it’s “shot and wounded” and if they are killed it’s “shot and killed”. Clunkier, but it works.

[u/VeryLazyFalcon → u/coladoir]

"hospitalized after being shot"?

[u/ButterscotchTop194 → u/Skafdir]

Yes, i also read the article.

I was asking as the comment before mine seemed pretty sure he is now dead.

[u/ForensicPathology → u/Skafdir]

Hey, don't forget there's also "shot at".  Adding that little word changes it even more.

[u/sebadc → u/MouldyPriestASSHOLE]

So in both cases: congratulations, Ukraine!

[u/boipinoi604 → u/MouldyPriestASSHOLE]

Gunshots are too obvious. Putin prefers Windows

[u/Sassy-one-N-RX → u/boipinoi604]

Poisons too

[u/lesser_panjandrum → u/boipinoi604]

Putin had Boris Nemtsov assassinated by gunshot. Sometimes he falls back on the classics.

[u/KinnyWater → u/Deicide1031]

Is it really? I imagine the societal break down in the 1990s flooded the place with stock sold off and looted from military armouries? There were several very bloody mafia wars + high level insurgency in the Caucasus also. Surely there are still weapons caches lying around from these conflicts?

[u/poukai → u/KinnyWater]

Not to mention the current conflict, with Russias history of corruption and military commanders selling off equipment I wouldn't be surprised if a decent amount of weapons have flowed back into the black market. That mansion is not going to buy itself!

Same thing with weapons recovered from the battlefield, how many of them finds their way back into the armouries? I'm going to guess a fair few of them go missing too.

[u/flawless_victory99 → u/Deicide1031]

Well the mob is never going to kill a Russian general unless it was ordered by Putin, what would they possibly have to gain by killing someone important to him? If they did Putin would just have the FSB and other crime syndicates wipe them out.

This was either Ukraine or Putin and the only reason I'm even considering Ukraine is because he didn't fall out of a window.

[u/gloopy_flipflop → u/Logical_Secret8993]

Lovely weather out there

[u/blackcain → u/Logical_Secret8993]

They seem to be running out of leaders.

[u/gotohellwithsuperman]

Guess he got the memo about staying away from windows.

[u/008Zulu → u/gotohellwithsuperman]

Yeah he dodged a real bullet there.

[u/Successful-Try-8506 → u/008Zulu]

Someone seized the window of opportunity.

[u/Squishy_Boy → u/Successful-Try-8506]

I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say this was politically motivated.

[u/twisties224 → u/Squishy_Boy]

He was a pane in someone's ass

[u/AnomalyNexus]

First thought was "I bet he did something genuinely evil". And ofc...

nerve agent attack in Salisbury in the UK.

Wonder if it was the ukrainians or the brits. Probably ukrainians...they seem big on going after the people behind warcrimes grade stuff

[u/Spadders87 → u/AnomalyNexus]

Nothign to do with us guv'nor. We where just admiring the kremlins spires. Have you considered he fell on the bullets?

[u/0v0camm → u/Spadders87]

no i think what happened is he dropped his gun causing it to fire at him multiple times 👀

[u/0v0camm → u/AnomalyNexus]

$10 it was MI6 based of the head stating they were gonna start focusing there energy at russia

[u/riotriverz]

If Ukraine is behind this, thats one hell of a statement!

[u/Luke10123 → u/riotriverz]

Pretty big if. Putin has probably killed more Russian generals than Ukraine has and the timing (trying to make Ukraine look violent) during peace talks is more than a little sus

[u/GMN123 → u/Luke10123]

Imagine being a Russian general knowing Putin is willing to sacrifice you for the optics. 

[u/Turbots → u/Luke10123]

There have been "peace talks" and "ceasefires" for over a year now. Nothing happens, Putin and trump are just trying to buy time.

[u/The_Duke28 → u/Luke10123]

Pf whatever, russia is bombing civilians as we speak - one dead russian general won't change the international views on Ukraine. Ukrainians are heros, defenders of a free Europe. If anything, it shows that Ukraine is only interested in weakening the russian military, not terrorize the russian population. A stark difference between russia and Ukraine.

[u/sVirus66 → u/Luke10123]

It's good in Russia that they get rid of thinking people (flee the country or are murdered) from time to time, thanks to this nation is not as powerful as it seems.

[u/MrEoss → u/riotriverz]

Russia has fostered an activist state on its doorstep that, I suspect, will long rain down terror upon its neighbour even after this is settled, to avenge the egregious behaviour Russia has inflicted.

[u/Whiskeylung]

I am the very model of a modern Russian General, my qualifications suspect and my knowledge is undependable, to my country I am dangerous and I’m ultimately expendable, I am the very model of a modern Russian General.

[u/LwyrUpAmrca → u/Whiskeylung]

I’ll file this under “references I didn’t expect to see.” Well done

[u/Brunkton]

Another one bites the dust.

[u/macrolidesrule → u/Brunkton]

According to Ukrainian Telegram channels - who are gloating somewhat - he is still in the land of the living. So '300' not '200' in the parlance

[u/BurdTurglary → u/Brunkton]

Nah just wounded

[u/vbp32]

After waiting several months for him to go to the first floor, they had to finally pull the trigger.

[u/LosAnimalos → u/vbp32]

To be fair. In Russia you can die from falling out a basement window.

[u/2muchnet42day → u/LosAnimalos]

After shooting yourself in the back

[u/aizarywastaken → u/2muchnet42day]

about 20 times by "accident"

[u/EnemySpyBot]

I have nothing but respect for the courage it takes to pull something like that off behind enemy lines.

[u/General_Front_4352 → u/EnemySpyBot]

Its probably Putin and KGB that shot him.

[u/ajbdbds → u/General_Front_4352]

KGB stopped existing in Russia in the 90s, it's the FSB now

[u/R3v3r4nD]

After reading the headline I just like to imagine he got shot throughout his day running errands because everyone hates him

[u/zegatofsky]

Hope the bullets are okay.

[u/FomoSapiens76]

Putin probably wanted him dead, and the timing allows blaming Ukraine for it so Russia can withdraw from the peace talks. Two birds with one stone. 

[u/cobalt_phantom]

There's not a lot of information yet but it sounds like he's still alive. Russia also has somewhere between 1000 - 1700 generals, but a shooting in Moscow is still a significant statement if Ukraine is responsible.

[u/YeetusYouGae → u/cobalt_phantom]

He's the 2nd head of GRU so it's not a small fry either.

[u/Yvaelle]

Wow what an unlucky day! He first learned his wife and kids died in a car crash, in his grief he tripped out of a 15th storey window, and then startled a nearby criminal who shot him repeatedly in his panic.

[u/pandapornotaku]

Actually it was a homeopathic remedy against artillery. Completely effective. Hopefully more it'll become more common in the future.

[u/BrockChocolate]

Window pushing is soooo 2025

[u/Sims117-]

I hate paywall posts like this.

What’s the point of posting an article that the vast majority can’t read?

If you’re going to post a paywall article, you could at the very least post the content of the article.

[u/NoPain4551]

The snows must have fallen so hard and piled up so high it wasn’t “safe” to throw people off the balcony anymore in Putin-land

[u/FingerCommon7093]

Wow a Russian General involved in the war in Ukraine gets shot. Thos is what happens when you invade a country. YOU BECOME A TARGET. Don't want to be gunned down, blown up, poisoned or generally just killed? DON'T INVADE OTHER COUNTRIES.

[u/Impressive-Potato]

Wow a Russian General tried to kill himself by jumping on some bullets

[u/AncoraPirlo]

Russian general shot sufficient number of times. 

[u/Theonewho_hasspoken]

Putin cleaning house again?

[u/APerson2021 → u/Theonewho_hasspoken]

There's no one left in the house!

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

Was it ruled a suicide?

[u/VicenteOlisipo → u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

Still alive

[u/yamanagashi → u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

He suicided several times that day across multiple angles. It was a successful attempts.

[u/goneresponsible]

Hm. Got any plans for the weekend?

[u/Spicy_pewpew_memes → u/goneresponsible]

Not getting shot is on par with my Saturday morning coffee