A Russian submarine commander blamed for atrocities in Ukraine was gunned down on his morning jog in Krasnodar:
Stanislav Rzhitsky, a commander of a submarine in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and the deputy head of mobilization efforts in Krasnodar, was shot four times in the back and chest in broad daylight on Monday morning, according to local media reports.
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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate on Tuesday confirmed Rzhitsky’s murder but did not claim responsibility for it, noting only that he had commanded a Russian submarine “involved in missile attacks on Ukraine.” They said he’d been shot seven times with a Makarov pistol.
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The Krasnodar submarine, equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles, was blamed by Ukrainian media for an attack on Vinnytsia last year that killed 27 people. Rzhitsky was also listed in a Ukrainian database that names and shames all those accused of involvement in war crimes.
But Ukrainian authorities say Rzhitsky had also made enemies in the Russian military after refusing to carry out any more missile strikes on Ukraine due to the risks to the civilian population. In a statement, the Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed Rzhitsky was “eliminated by his own for refusing to further carry out the command’s combat orders.”
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But it appears he may have inadvertently made it quite easy for his killer or killers to find him: Rzhitsky regularly posted his running routes on the popular exercise app Strava, and he usually stuck to the same route, according to Baza.
I wonder who could have predicted this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
https://fortune.com/2018/01/29/strava-heat-map-fitbit-fitness-tracking-military/
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/
Oh, right.
For nine years, the Ukro-nazis have attacked civilian targets in the Donbas, and done so deliberately as terrorism. The US has approved these attacks, but then the US also targets civilians. We killed a half million Iraqi civilians. And we regularly droned weddings, funerals, and birthday parties in Afghanistan. And lost.
B.S.: As I recall, a UN map had all the Ukrainian artillery strikes at the “border” of Occupation, where the current fighting is taking place. The Ukrainians were rather careful in their targeting. Even with longer range weapons they have been targeting specific strategic targets, It is the Muscovites who have been targeting civilian concentrations. Terror is a Russian technique.
So is Commander Rzhitsky a goat or a hero? Careless sounds more appropriate. I guess that he knew he had enemies but tried to move the inevitable away from his family. Loyalty…..
Several of my college Profs were Russian expats. Smart people in many respects. They escaped. I guess that was too much for the Commander.
Bob Sykes, Iraqi “civilians” killed half a million and many more Iraqi civilians. In case you weren’t following the news, a bitter civil war was raging between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and still is. As usual, America won the war and lost the peace, having told the experts on countering sectarian violence, the British, to get lost you dumasses we know better.
If he thought at that actual moment he was firing at a military target and did so in good faith he did nothing wrong.
“As I recall, a UN map had all the Ukrainian artillery strikes at the ‘border’ of Occupation, where the current fighting is taking place.”
But of course; why would the tranzis gainsay the conflict they themselves were trying to stir up into reality?
“…the Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed Rzhitsky was ‘eliminated by his own for refusing to further carry out the command’s combat orders.’”
Just a reminder; these are the same guys that will launch shells at a nuclear powerplant, and say that the guys owning it were lauching shells at themselves.
The reason ‘big lie’ approaches work on normies is that it is so audacious that they can’t comprehend the idea that someone would have enough chutzpah to commit to the bit.
“That’s not happening; and also I am not responsible for it happening; and also you deserve it”.