Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolay Patrushev. © Sputnik/Sergey Guneev
Reuters: Putin ally accuses U.S. of involvement in deadly attacks inside Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the United States coordinated with Ukraine to kill two pro-war nationalists in Russia and to carry out attacks on critical national infrastructure in an effort to undermine stability.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year in what it called “a special military operation,” the Kremlin accused the West of unleashing a proxy war against it.
Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, was killed in a car bomb in August; pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was killed in a bomb last month; and nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bomb earlier this month.
Russia also accused Ukraine of attacking the Crimean Bridge last October and accused the West of being behind blasts on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September.
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Update #1: US had hand in assassinations of Dugina, Tatarsky, Russia’s top security official asserts (TASS)
Update #2: Patrushev said US intelligence agencies coordinated Tatarsky’s murder and the explosion of Prilepin’s car (Eastern Herald)
WNU Editor: Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev is, IMHO, the second most powerful leader in Russia after Putin.
He has just publicly accused the U.S. of waging war inside Russia.
Let that sink in.