Yesterday, August 05, and especially today, August 06, online media and TVchannels are full of headlines: “Ukrainian special services were preparing a strike against Putin and Defense Minister Belousov at the parade in St. Petersburg“. At the same time, most Ukrainian sources refer to theMilitarny portal, while Russian sources refer to”Ukrainian media.” At the same time, “Militarny” did not write about the attack on Putin, The primary source of this information (or disinformation) is the Russian portalTsargrad , owned bythe “Orthodox oligarch”Konstantin Malofeev.
Read on for more details.
For the first time , the American newspaper The New York Times reported that the Ukrainian special services were preparing a special operation on the territory of Russia on the day of the Russian navy, was first reported by The New York Times on July 26. The article “Mysterious plot prompts rare call from Russia to the Pentagon” stated, that on July 12, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov contacted his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, to warn him of a covert operation against Russia, to warn him of a covert Ukrainian operation against Russiathat had been discovered, which, according to the Russians, had the approval of the United States. The Pentagon was allegedly surprised by this accusation and was not aware of any such conspiracy. The Americans took this message seriously and“warned Ukrainians not to take such actions.”
Then, after a week of silence on this issue, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov entered the information space . who stated on theRossiya 1 TV channel that that ” Ukraine’s special services were preparing a terrorist attack on the Day of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg.” There was no mentionof an attack on Putin and Belousov.
The original source of this information isthe Tsargrad TV channel, which in its article ” Kamala Harris’s diagnosis, the assassination attempt on Putin and Belousov, the victim of a hayride: highlights for the night and morning of august 5″ suggested that “probably, it was an attempt on the life of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Defense Minister Andrei Belousov during a parade in St. Petersburg on Navy Day.
But what could Kiev have done that would have caused such a reaction? Supposedly, we’ re talking about an assassination attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Andrei Belousov. Andrei Belousov, head of the Defense Ministry, during the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg.
Ryabkov did not confirm this directly, but noted, that Kiev’s action was indeed related, among other things, to the parade in St. Petersburg. From this we can conclude that the Ukrainian security services were preparing a whole series of high-profile terrorist attacks.
It’s a direct quote without a translation.
After that , the Ukrainian portalMilitarny published a news item, that “Russia asked the United States to persuade Ukraine not to attack military targets on NavyDay. We checked all the versions of this news in the web archive, and none of them say that Ukraine was planning to attack Putin or the venue of the so-called Navy Day parade at all.
However, it was with reference to Militarny that reports with the headline “Ukrainian special services were preparing a strike against Putin and Defense Minister Belousov at a parade in St. Petersburg, – Militarny”.
What is important in this situation:
- The so-called parade was attended by foreign guests, including those from China, and the information about the attack on Putin during the parade could be perceived as disrespectful or a threat from Ukraine. And to tie China even more to Putin’s interests.
- The enemy did not officially declare this , but it was the Deputy Minister of Russia who resuscitated this topic in the information space, which means that this campaign is coordinated at the state level.
- The scale at which this information is being disseminated in Russia indicates that the aggressor country is interested in spreading it.
- Putin and Minister Belousov are legitimate targets of Ukraine , as they are directly responsible for the killing of Ukrainian civilians. And it is normal that the Ukrainian special services are planning such operations. In particular, the head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov has repeatedly explained this issue. However, Ukrainian special services carry out their operations in accordance with the operational situation and without the risk of creating conflicts with states that are not involved in the war against Ukraine.
- Spreading information that the United States is preventing Ukraine from conducting operations aimed at defeating the enemy, is also in Russia’s interests. Plus, the information that that the United States is listening to requests from Russia increases the significance of these requests and the subjectivity of Putin and his entourage.
- The enemy is using the Ukrainian media to promote the narratives it wants.
