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[–] gribzy_uk@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love an Xmas good news story 😊

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

C'mon, there is still time for another great guy

[–] gribzy_uk@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Saving that one for the big day!

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 57 points 1 day ago

Hell yes, more of this to people who deserve it, especially Russian military officers who continue following Putins orders.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Blamed Ukraine." Ok so now we know it was a political assassination by the Kremlin.

With that out of the way, I get this feeling that typically it's a bad idea to kill your military leaders. I don't know how the military works in Russia, but given that an oligarch was able to march his PMC to Moscow with no opposition makes me wonder if the Kremlin has any capacity for reasoning over reaction.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I'm betting it was to prevent another Prigozhin incident

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 16 hours ago

They're kinda locked in on the "reign of terror" tech tree

The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they're less so.

Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can't show weakness or own failure at all

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Local kids playing with IEDs, probably, and they got careless. I can't imagine what else it could be.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

It’s clearly suicide.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago

What do you mean?

Cars just do that sometimes.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, that's terrible. Just terrible. So sooooo very terrible. Sniff sniff.
Anyways, anyone want pizza?

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Only if you're paying.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean…does anyone believe that it was Ukraine that did this, and not just Russia killing two birds with one stone?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

If it was Russia, he'd likely have fallen out of a window?

Bombs are messy and leave people talking

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But this way they get to blame Ukraine

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

... and? What is the Kremlin going to do, declare war?

Military officers are legitimate targets. Either Ukrainian Special Ops performed yet another successful mission within Moscow, or Russia unlawfully merced one of its own generals. Either way it's a bad look for Russia.

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

They have used bombs for false flag operations before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Firing missiles as commercial jets makes an even bigger mess. 

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world -1 points 16 hours ago

…talking about Ukraine, perhaps?

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago

What an odd development in window technology.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

It's just like a scene from Ментовские войны. Good job Ukraine!

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

What a strangely circuitous headline

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Seems like the car just did that.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 22 hours ago
[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do the generals live in those style of apartments we see in the picture? I would think not.

[–] mittyta@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, exactly my thought when I read what car he had! Strange.

Upd: I checked address (Moscow, Yasnevaya str, 12k5) and this is new building that isn't very cheap. But definitely not to luxury.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Thoughts and prayers

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You need to push triangle a-bit sooner before the explosion noob.