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Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow​

Mon, December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM EST
MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation's top criminal investigation agency.
 

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Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow​

Mon, December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM EST
MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation's top criminal investigation agency.


It would be trivial for Russia to have wiped out the utilities in the Ukraine, as well as assassinating leaders like Zelensky.
But if you notice, Russia has done nothing like that.
It is only the Ukraine that is using these disreputable tactics.
 
"It would be trivial for Russia to have wiped out the utilities in the Ukraine" R5 #222
"Ukraine’s energy system1 has been regularly targeted by Russia since its full-scale invasion in 2022, with attacks intensifying since the spring of 2024."
https://www.iea.org/reports/ukraine...ng-winter/ukraines-energy-system-under-attack

" as well as assassinating leaders like Zelensky." R5 #222
Then with whom would they negotiate Ukraine's surrender? No.
The U.S. is already delicate about such assassination despite Fidel (didn't the U.S. have five failed murder plans / attempts against Cuba's Fidel Castro?) since the JFK assassination, because U.S. policy makers think
if we attack the leaders of other nations, we render our own leaders vulnerable.
Zelenskyy isn't Trump. But as Ukraine remains hat in hand desperate for U.S. assistance, such considerations tend to be reflected in events there.

"But if you notice, Russia has done nothing like that." R5 #222
Since 2022, Russian targeting of Ukraine's power infrastructure has sought to destabilise the electricity system by disabling large coal and gas-fired generation units and key parts of the transmission network. Prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, nuclear power generated half of the country’s electricity, followed by coal-fired plants at 23% and gas-fired plants at 9%. As of the end of May 20242, about 70% of Ukraine's thermal generation capacity was either occupied or damaged, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (whose 6 GW of capacity generated around one-quarter of Ukraine’s electricity supply prior to 2022) remained under Russian control.
https://www.iea.org/reports/ukraine...ng-winter/ukraines-energy-system-under-attack

"It is only the Ukraine that is using these disreputable tactics." R5 #222
Russia massed military invasion forces on its border with Ukraine, invaded, wages War, and seems intent on Russian assimilation / conquest of Ukraine.

"It is only the Ukraine that is using these disreputable tactics." R5 #222

Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

2020 U.S. military operation in Baghdad, Iraq / Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was killed by an American drone strike ordered by U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, while travelling to meet Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
 
Russia has total air superiority, including high altitude bombers, missiles, drones, etc., that could easily have blacked out all utilities in any section of the Ukraine they wanted to.
But all actual images we are getting show that all regions of the Ukraine have always had uninterrupted utilities.
While Kyiv has claimed utilities were hit, there is no evidence to back up these claims.
However, we do have lots of evidence that Kyiv is using US long range missiles and drones to attack Russian utilities and is also assassinating Russian officials.
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Two police officers killed by bomb in Moscow near site of Russian general's killing​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...1&cvid=694c010054fb4510add4bc5412d21c56&ei=64

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Multiple Russian cities hit overnight, power outages reported in Oryol, Tolyatti and Rostov​

Story by Kateryna Danishevska
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...atti-and-rostov/ar-AA1SEHbA?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Since Moscow was happy with the pro-Russian government elected in 2012 and only finally attacked after Kyiv cut off all communications in 2022, it is fairly obvious Russia is not the culprit.
The changes leading up to the war were by the US and were treaty violations amounting to acts of war.
 
"Since Moscow was happy with the pro-Russian government elected in 2012 and only finally attacked after Kyiv cut off all communications in 2022, it is fairly obvious Russia is not the culprit.
The changes leading up to the war were by the US and were treaty violations amounting to acts of war." R5 #224
For years I observed with open-mouthed astonishment that Ukraine allowed the carnage, the mayhem to be hosted nearly entirely on their own sovereign soil.

The way to drag a tyrant like Putin to the negotiating table WITH REALISTIC POLICY OBJECTIVES is to inflict as much pain in Russia as Russia has in Ukraine.

In that regard, Ukraine has some catching up to do.

When Russian losses are so staggering that Putin will do anything to stop it, an equitable peace agreement shall be much more likely.
That parity is not yet within reach.
 
For years I observed with open-mouthed astonishment that Ukraine allowed the carnage, the mayhem to be hosted nearly entirely on their own sovereign soil.

The way to drag a tyrant like Putin to the negotiating table WITH REALISTIC POLICY OBJECTIVES is to inflict as much pain in Russia as Russia has in Ukraine.

In that regard, Ukraine has some catching up to do.

When Russian losses are so staggering that Putin will do anything to stop it, an equitable peace agreement shall be much more likely.
That parity is not yet within reach.


I disagree.
There was a nice democracy for decades in the Ukraine, and it only turned into a violent and murderous dictatorship in 2014, when the US bribed the Maidan Coup.
The Azov Battalion is notorious for being racist and murdering tens of thousands of Russian speaking, native Ukrainians.
The Azov Battalion is a Polish speaking faction descendant of the Polish invasion that was defeated around 1700.
The fact the Polish speaking invaders were not wiped out and were allowed to stay, speaks well of the Russians.
The fact the Polish speaking faction violated treaties and tried to join NATO, prevent Russian use of Sevastopol, and were the ones to cut off all communications with Moscow, makes them the bad guys.

Again, the Polish speakers are not native and should not have control of the whole country.
Even in areas where they are the majority, they are abusive.
What I would prefer is they went back to Poland.
 
There is no "violent and murderous" exception in International law against military invasion & conquest.

There are three reasons I back Russia on the Ukraine.
One is that the historical context is that the Ukraine used to be part of Russia, with Kyiv being the historic capital of Russia.
Two is that the people in the western half of the Ukraine are the descendants of the defeated Polish invaders of 1700, who are known for being extremely racist and violent.
Three is that the ethnic Polish who took over the government of the Ukraine illegally in 2014, massacred over 30,000 ethnic Russian Ukrainian natives, and committed many treaty violations, like trying to prevent Russian use of Sevastopol, trying to join NATO, cutting off all communications with Moscow, etc.
When it is historically Russian, then it is not "invasion" or "conquest".
It was liberation from an illegal act by the Treaty of Versailles, that did not have the authority to take the Ukraine from Russia.
Russia was not a participant in the German side of WWI, so there was no justification for the Treaty of Versailles to take the Ukraine from Russia like it did.
 
"Russia was not a participant in the German side of WWI, so there was no justification for the Treaty of Versailles to take the Ukraine from Russia like it did." R5 #228
Who living at that time, unjustly affected by it, is living today, and therefore alive to finally receive recompense for an injustice in the previous millennium?

At an exceedingly young age I was taught: "Two wrongs don't make a right."

What does the unjustified treaty then have to do with nullifying the injustice of the warfare, the bloodshed Russia has been lavishing on Ukraine for years up to and including today?

What Russia is doing to Ukraine TODAY is an injustice TODAY. I'm not sure insults to the forebears is all that relevant.
 
Who living at that time, unjustly affected by it, is living today, and therefore alive to finally receive recompense for an injustice in the previous millennium?

At an exceedingly young age I was taught: "Two wrongs don't make a right."

What does the unjustified treaty then have to do with nullifying the injustice of the warfare, the bloodshed Russia has been lavishing on Ukraine for years up to and including today?

What Russia is doing to Ukraine TODAY is an injustice TODAY. I'm not sure insults to the forebears is all that relevant.

You missed the point.
The Ukraine was not separated by the Treaty of Versailles because the Soviet Union instantly ignored that treaty.
The Ukraine remained part of the USSR until 1991 when the USSR was dissolved by Gorbachev.
Gorbachev made the Ukraine promise a number of things, such as to protect the ethnic Russian population, not join any alliance hostile to Russia, not interfere with the Russian use of Sevastopol, etc.
In 2014, the Ukraine deliberately violated all the terms of this treaty.
This is so obvious and blatant that the only possible explanation is the US had bribed the ethnic Polish generals who conducted the coup, to deliberately start a war with Russia.
This is just like the way the CIA deliberately started the war in Afghanistan against Russia in 1979, with the Mujahideen.
 
"You missed the point." R5 #230
I miss the geographic overlay.

"Gorbachev made the Ukraine promise a number of things, such as to protect the ethnic Russian population, not join any alliance hostile to Russia, not interfere with the Russian use of Sevastopol, etc." R5 #230
Isn't Sevastopol in Crimea? So Putin is killing humans in Donetsk?

It doesn't look like justice to me. Rather more a lethal way to perpetuate the injustice.
The natives that live in contested regions had a choice. If while occupying sovereign Ukraine they identified as ethnic Russian,
and wanted to live in Russia, they could have rented a U-Haul.

They want both?
I want a unicorn and a rocket ship !
 
I miss the geographic overlay.


Isn't Sevastopol in Crimea? So Putin is killing humans in Donetsk?

It doesn't look like justice to me. Rather more a lethal way to perpetuate the injustice.
The natives that live in contested regions had a choice. If while occupying sovereign Ukraine they identified as ethnic Russian,
and wanted to live in Russia, they could have rented a U-Haul.

They want both?
I want a unicorn and a rocket ship !

Yes Sevastopol is in the Crimea, and in 2014, Kyiv tried to take it over and block Russian use, in violation of the 1991 treaties.
Russia should have taken out the ethnic Polish generals then for their treaty violations that were acts of war.

The ethnic Russian always lived in and ruled the Ukraine, as part of Russia, but tolerant of all ethnicities.
The ethnic Polish not only historically were invaders, but always are constantly guilty of mass murder, treaty violations, and a tradition of hatred and violence towards other ethnicities.

There was never a sovereign country of the Ukraine until 1991, and in just 23 years, the ethnic Polish took over by force, and violated every single clause of the treaty the Ukraine had signed in 1991.
So obviously the ethnic Polish can not be allowed to rule Kyiv.

The ethnic Polish are constantly guilty of mass murder.
So the ethnic Russian are not asking for anything unrealistic, to not be murdered.
 
"The ethnic Russian always lived in and ruled the Ukraine, as part of Russia, but tolerant of all ethnicities." R5 #232
Reassuring?
Not entirely clear to me how this meshes with Russia's clash with Chechen rebels.

""The ethnic Polish not only historically were invaders, but always are constantly guilty of mass murder, treaty violations, and a tradition of hatred and violence towards other ethnicities." " R5 #232
So we punish the daughters for the sins of the fathers?
 
Reassuring?
Not entirely clear to me how this meshes with Russia's clash with Chechen rebels.


So we punish the daughters for the sins of the fathers?

The Chechen rebels are Moslems from the attempted invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
Similar to the ethnic Polish in the Ukraine, they are neither native nor trustworthy.

The sins of ethnic Polish in the Ukraine are current.
It was in 2014 that they started massacring tens of thousands of ethnic Russian natives, tried to block Russian use of Sevastopol, tried to join NATO, etc.
 
I miss the geographic overlay.


Isn't Sevastopol in Crimea? So Putin is killing humans in Donetsk?

It doesn't look like justice to me. Rather more a lethal way to perpetuate the injustice.
The natives that live in contested regions had a choice. If while occupying sovereign Ukraine they identified as ethnic Russian,
and wanted to live in Russia, they could have rented a U-Haul.

They want both?
I want a unicorn and a rocket ship !

The people doing the killing in the Donetsk are the ethnic Polish soldiers from Kyiv, who do not belong in the Donetsk.
The Russians had to come in to stop the killing.
 
"The Chechen rebels are Moslems from the attempted invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
Similar to the ethnic Polish in the Ukraine, they are neither native nor trustworthy.

The sins of ethnic Polish in the Ukraine are current.
It was in 2014 that they started massacring tens of thousands of ethnic Russian natives, tried to block Russian use of Sevastopol, tried to join NATO, etc." R5 #234
Russia's military invasion, occupation, & blood-letting in Ukraine will render them less untrustworthy, more native?

"The people doing the killing in the Donetsk are the ethnic Polish soldiers from Kyiv, who do not belong in the Donetsk.
The Russians had to come in to stop the killing." R5 #235
I'd be interested in the murder rate stats
for the 3 years before Russia's invasion, compared to
the 3 years after.

That's not to justify or excuse ethnic Polish soldiers killing.
But given reports over the years of Russia's War on Ukraine, it raises sober questions about whether this Russian -cure- is worse than the disease.
 
Russia's military invasion, occupation, & blood-letting in Ukraine will render them less untrustworthy, more native?


I'd be interested in the murder rate stats
for the 3 years before Russia's invasion, compared to
the 3 years after.

That's not to justify or excuse ethnic Polish soldiers killing.
But given reports over the years of Russia's War on Ukraine, it raises sober questions about whether this Russian -cure- is worse than the disease.


Russia really had no choice at all.
And Kyiv is the deliberate cause of the war, by cutting off all negotiations with Moscow in 2022.

And if you go back to 2014, it is clear the ethnic Polish started it with mass murder.
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Forty-two people trapped by a fire on the third floor of the stately, Soviet-era Trades Unions building burned, suffocated or jumped to their deaths. How did the victims come to be in the building and who started the fire?
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Over the next few hours the clashes fragmented but a key development appeared to be a move by pro-Ukrainians against the tent city in Kulykovo Pole square.
Serhiy said: "People started streaming toward the station, taking Zhukovskoho Street and then taking Pushkinska Street. They chanted 'Long live Ukraine!' and 'Odessa is Ukrainian!'."
He said tents in the pro-Russian camp were burning when he arrived and those there had moved to the entrance of the nearby Trade Unions House.
"Eventually, they were driven in," he said.
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By his estimate there were several thousand (ethnic Polish) football fans and about 300 pro-Russians.
There was hand-to-hand fighting in the building although, again, it appeared the police did little to intervene.
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It remains unclear how the fire started on the third floor.
Pictures clearly showed pro-Ukrainians throwing Molotov cocktails towards the floor.
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People struggled to get out of the smoke-filled floor.
One survivor told Russia Today: "We couldn't go down, we were seeing people from other floors being brought down and then those rioters down there attacked them like a pack of wolves."
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Some people were reported to have shouted "die" as people fell.
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Unquestionably a problem.


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The massacre at the Odessa trade center was just the start.
Since then the Azov Battalion has been murdering even more.
Over 30,000 killed.
And the main problem are all the treaty violations, like trying to put NATO nukes on Russia's border.
The point being that it is not that the ethnic Polish themselves are that bad alone, but clearly they have taken the bribes from Hunter Biden, and are US agents.
 
The massacre at the Odessa trade center was just the start.
Since then the Azov Battalion has been murdering even more.
Over 30,000 killed.
And the main problem are all the treaty violations, like trying to put NATO nukes on Russia's border.
The point being that it is not that the ethnic Polish themselves are that bad alone, but clearly they have taken the bribes from Hunter Biden, and are US agents.
Even if it is as you say, not clear to me the Russian carnage in Ukraine is an improvement.

If Russia were serious about attending to the Azov Battalion, why not an ultimatum?
Russia inform Ukraine, terminate Azov Battalion misconduct, or we'll invade and eliminate them. I don't recall Putin making any conditional demands on Ukraine while Russian military troops were massing on Ukraine's border.

It looks more to me like Russian / Putin territorial avarice.
Much of the scholarly / experienced diplomatic / historic opinion on it corroborates that. And commonly attending such explanation, the inquiry, who's next.

Thus NATO's two most recent members, having joined NATO only after Russia invaded Ukraine.
 
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