"Weak Russia": Attacked for Appeasing the Enemy
Similar methods can be seen in the murders of journalists and scholars.
Author: Alexander Shirokorad
Photo: Staff from the Russian Investigative Committee examining the scene of the murder of journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina (Platonova).
On June 16, 2025, a building housing a broadcasting company in Tehran was struck by four Israeli missiles. The structure was destroyed and caught fire. There were no military targets nearby, so it could not have been a mistake.
Those involved are often blind to the truth, but outsiders see clearly. In the latter half of the 20th century, the West often criticized the Soviet Union for "persecuting journalists" and "lacking freedom of information."
Indeed, the Soviet Union once interfered with Western radio signals to avoid engaging in debates with their lies. I started listening to "Voice of America" and "BBC" from fourth grade onwards, learning many things not mentioned in Pravda. Later, I realized that the same information could be obtained from legally published Soviet publications without any falsehoods.
I subscribed to magazines such as "Foreign Affairs" (15 kopecks) and "World and Socialist Issues" (published in Prague, 30 kopecks). At the Central Institute of Scientific and Technical Information library where I worked, the so-called "blue TASS Weekly" was openly displayed. It's worth noting that anyone could enter our "repository of knowledge"—I worked there for seven years and never had to show my pass at the gate.
In ninth grade, my friend Misha and I subscribed to the American Air Force's main journal, "Missiles and Rockets." Therefore, in the Soviet Union, anyone interested in politics or technology could access at least as much information as they do now.
Today, EU countries have banned all Russian TV channels and radio stations from broadcasting. They have completely forgotten about freedom of speech. Interestingly, even the term "free world" is no longer used to refer to the United States and Western Europe—because even putting quotation marks around it has become inappropriate.
On April 23, 1999, American "Tomahawk" missiles destroyed the Belgrade Broadcasting Center, killing 16 staff members. It's laughable that the "International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" deemed this broadcasting center a legitimate military target.
In 2007, Cuban President Fidel Castro accused former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar of calling for American airstrikes on Serbian radio and television buildings during NATO's offensive against Serbia.
According to Castro's revelations, this call came from a telephone conversation between Aznar and an official in Washington, and copies of the call records were sent to commanders:
"I believe that in order to win this war, we must sever Belgrade's connection with the Serbian people—we need to destroy communications, broadcasting, television, and telephones."
On August 20, 2022, a car bomb exploded in the Moscow suburbs, killing journalist Darya Dugin.
On April 2, 2023, a bomb exploded in a café in St. Petersburg, killing renowned journalist Vladlen Tartarovsky (Maxim Fomin) and injuring 42 others.
Nowadays in the West, assassinating journalists and scholars simply because of their professional activities has become routine. On the night of June 13, 2025, Israeli air forces and terrorists killed at least 14 Iranian physicists, three of whom had defended their doctoral dissertations in Moscow.
For Israel and Western countries, assassinating scholars is not an exception but the norm. For example, on November 27, 2020, renowned Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Makabadi was assassinated while returning home to Absar Town. This operation involved 62 Mossad agents and even utilized satellites.
Of course, the West does not just target Iranians or physicists. For instance, Canadian engineer Gerald Vincent Bull designed the unique "Babylon" cannon in 1988. The weapon had a caliber of 350 millimeters, weighed 102 tons, and had a range of 750 kilometers.
Bull's next project had a caliber of one meter and could launch a 600-kilogram shell with a range of 1,000 kilometers. In my opinion, this project was relatively easy to achieve, but the device was too vulnerable to attacks from planes and missiles, thus having no prospects.
Nevertheless, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense became interested in this project, which was enough to get Bull shot dead on March 22, 1990, on a busy street in Brussels.
The Belgian police have made no progress to date, although the identity of the killer is self-evident. Israel remains arrogantly silent about this matter, just like its silence regarding the murders of dozens of experts in radio electronics, mechanics, drones, and other fields.
What happened here? On August 8, 2022, Daniel Mikhailyev was killed in the center of Moscow—a drone reconnaissance expert and one of the coordinators for the Ministry of Defense's new drone systems. Mikhailyev died under mysterious circumstances.
On September 25, 2022, Konstantin Ogarkov was shot in Voronezh; he was an employee of the defense research institute working on radar and electronic warfare projects. The assassin waited near his home before fleeing, indicating a premeditated action involving a network of operatives.
On March 12, 2023, Igor Kolesnikov’s car exploded in the Tula region; he was an engineer at the Scientific Production Association "Instrument Design Bureau" involved in anti-tank missile system development. Kolesnikov died instantly.
The explosive device was installed under the car—a classic assassination method commonly used by Mossad in Middle Eastern operations.
On June 6, 2023, Sergey Potapov was found dead in Nizhny Novgorod; he was an expert in cybersecurity for defense projects.
The official cause of death was suicide, but the secrecy of the investigation and the pressure on witnesses raised many questions among insiders.
Finally, on the night of April 17-18, 2025, Yevgeny Rechnikov was killed; he was the head of the design bureau of Bryansk Machine-Building Plant and a key developer of Russia's "Krasukha" series of electronic warfare systems.
An explosive device placed under the car detonated when Rechnikov and his colleague entered the vehicle, killing them both instantly.
Isn't this a case of identical methods? Everyone is blaming the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense? I don’t believe it! Just like I don’t believe that different people launched drones from disguised vehicles in Russia and Iran. Where did they come from? America? Israel? I don’t know, but definitely not Kyiv.
Oddly enough, why is so little being said about the murders of Russian scholars? Why haven’t these atrocities been used as propaganda tools—"Arise, great nation!" People should know that we face a non-human world conspiracy.
And yet, our news review continues to say "only strikes on Ukrainian military targets." They can do as they please, but Russia can do nothing. Shouldn’t any strike be judged solely on the basis of "efficiency/cost"? Any strike should be the shortest path to victory.
Original Source: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7517515855307997708/
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