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Related: About this forumRumours Swirl on Telegram of Failed Assassination Plot and Threat to Putin - Silicon Curtain
Edition No140 | 09-05-2025 - Brace yourselves for an extraordinary piece of speculation. A friend alerted me to rumours swirling around Moscow of another potential threat to the life of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Perhaps thats not a surprise, given that his senseless war has caused upwards of a million Russian to be grievously wounded or lose their lives and trashed the economy. What is a surprise is that only one media publication I could find seems to have covered this story from this angle, despite the dramatic inferences that can be made.
The UK paper The Mirror dramatically announced on 6th May that Vladimir Putin's electrician for his 'secret Valdai palace' blown up in 'assassination attempt'. But who was the assassination against? The electrician, or ultimately Putin himself?
The story has been covered in other quarters of the press in a conventional fashion, that follows the information provided by Russian press services, without questioning it at all. Massive gas explosion in Moscow apartment block. Now such explosions are not unknown in Russia. True, they are less likely in Moscow which tends to have a better standard of infrastructure and maintenance. But in the context of the full-scale war, and personal shortages such occurrences may be occurring with greater frequency.
But the issue here, is that anonymous witness who visited the scene have claimed there was no smell of gas. Yet the explosion was substantial. Reports suggest a smell of gunpowder instead, and the immediate security blanket thrown over the incident suggests a cover up.
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Rumours Swirl on Telegram of Failed Assassination Plot and Threat to Putin - Silicon Curtain (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
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dchill
(42,300 posts)1. Hope springs eternal.
marble falls
(65,207 posts)2. I hope Mango T. Jebus ignores this,
SheltieLover
(67,730 posts)3. Kick
