Russian Ukraine War

[mateinone]

Pro Russian media is tweeting that very thing, that the Ukraine was responsible for shooting the plane down.

Yes the thing about Russian assassinations and Russian media response to them, is that in fact they are not at all trying to cover things up, look at the Skripal poisonings. There were many ways to attempt to kill Skripal, but to use a specifically known russian poison was not at all just an "error", the Russian government uses their assassinations as a type of psychological warfare, all Russians know that billionaires are not committing suicide by jumping out of hotel or hospital windows, the government is saying in not very hidden terms, we will publicly kill you, the media will push our ridiculous line and no one at all will suffer any consequences, and it works.

Of course there is a small chance Prighozhin could have faked his death, he has the funds to do so... but this killing is 100% in line with how the Russians would take someone out... Claim their was a plane crash (or Ukraine shot it down) directly 2 months  (to the day!) after the coup... No one in Russia our outside Russia will believe it, but everyone will say... "of course, what other outcome can their be if you challenge Putin?"

The Russian media response to the Skripal poisonings btw, was to get the perpetrators out in public and interview them on Russia One channel, talking about the beautiful chapels in Salisbury Cathedral, which of course it is laughable that 2 Russian GRU members of an strongly Orthodox country were traveling to the UK because they needed to see  an Anglican Cathedral, but this is the point.... The more absurd the story, the more it is a middle finger to the west and a warning to the people of Russia.