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Kremlin staged drone attack on Putin’s helicopter (www.pravda.com.ua)
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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 120 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Not great for PR:

Four sources within the government and the Kremlin told The Moscow Times that security officials promoted this shocking and "risky" episode in the media to convince Russians that their leader is not hiding behind others, but is also supposedly taking risks and making sacrifices.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a PR spin.

I imagine the conversation going something like this:

"Holy shit, the Ukrainians almost hit the presidential helicopter. This makes us look real bad.

Okay, here's what we do. We tell everybody that it was us, and it was totally on purpose so they don't realize how close the Ukrainians came to winning the war"

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