Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia
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KYIV — The cluttered car carrying a mother and her 12-year-old daughter seemed barely worth the attention of Russian security officials as it approached a border checkpoint. But the least conspicuous piece of luggage — a crate for a cat — was part of an elaborate, lethal plot. Ukrainian operatives had installed a hidden compartment in the pet carrier, according to security officials with knowledge of the operation, and used it to conceal components of a bomb.
Four weeks later, the device detonated just outside Moscow in an SUV being driven by the daughter of a Russian nationalist who had urged his country to “kill, kill, kill” Ukrainians, an explosion signaling that the heart of Russia would not be spared the carnage of war.
The operation was orchestrated by Ukraine’s domestic security service, the SBU, according to officials who provided details, including the use of the pet crate, that have not been previously disclosed. The August 2022 attack is part of a raging shadow war in which Ukraine’s spy services have also twice bombed the bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea, piloted drones into the roof of the Kremlin and blown holes in the hulls of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea.
These operations have been cast as extreme measures Ukraine was forced to adopt in response to Russia’s invasion last year. In reality, they represent capabilities that Ukraine’s spy agencies have developed over nearly a decade — since Russia first seized Ukrainian territory in 2014 — a period during which the services also forged deep new bonds with the CIA.
The missions have involved elite teams of Ukrainian operatives drawn from directorates that were formed, trained and equipped in close partnership with the CIA, according to current and former Ukrainian and U.S. officials. Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into potent allies against Moscow, officials said. The agency has provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine as well as the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, and shared intelligence on a scale that would have been unimaginable before Russia illegally annexed Crimea and fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine. The CIA maintains a significant presence in Kyiv, officials said.
The extent of the CIA’s involvement with Ukraine’s security services has not previously been disclosed. U.S. intelligence officials stressed that the agency has had no involvement in targeted killing operations by Ukrainian agencies, and that its work has focused on bolstering those services’ abilities to gather intelligence on a dangerous adversary. A senior intelligence official said that “any potential operational concerns have been conveyed clearly to the Ukrainian services.”
Many of Ukraine’s clandestine operations have had clear military objectives and contributed to the country’s defense. The car bombing that killed Daria Dugina, however, underscored Ukraine’s embrace of what officials in Kyiv refer to as “liquidations” as a weapon of war. Over the past 20 months, the SBU and its military counterpart, the GUR, have carried out dozens of assassinations against Russian officials in occupied territories, alleged Ukrainian collaborators, military officers behind the front lines and prominent war supporters deep inside Russia. Those killed include a former Russian submarine commander jogging in a park in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar and a militant blogger at a cafe in St. Petersburg, according to Ukrainian and Western officials.
Ukraine’s affinity for lethal operations has complicated its collaboration with the CIA, raising concerns about agency complicity and creating unease among some officials in Kyiv and Washington.
Even those who see such lethal missions as defensible in wartime question the utility of certain strikes and decisions that led to the targeting of civilians including Dugina or her father, Alexander Dugin — who officials acknowledge was the intended mark — rather than Russians more directly linked to the war.
“We have too many enemies who are more important to neutralize,” said a high-ranking Ukraine security official. “People who launch missiles. People who committed atrocities in Bucha.” Killing the daughter of a pro-war firebrand is “very cynical,” the official said.
Others cited broader concerns about Ukraine’s cutthroat tactics that may seem justified now — especially against a country accused of widespread war atrocities — but could later prove difficult to rein in.
“We are seeing the birth of a set of intelligence services that are like Mossad in the 1970s,” said a former senior CIA official, referring to the Israeli spy service long accused of carrying out assassinations in other countries. Ukraine’s proficiency at such operations “has risks for Russia,” the official said, “but it carries broader risks as well.”
“If Ukraine’s intelligence operations become even bolder — targeting Russians in third countries, for example — you could imagine how that might cause rifts with partners and come into serious tension with Ukraine’s broader strategic goals,” the official said. Among those goals is membership in NATO and the European Union.
This article is based on interviews with more than two dozen current and former Ukrainian, U.S. and Western intelligence and security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity citing security concerns as well as the sensitivity of the subject. The pressure on Kyiv to score victories against Russia and find ways to deter further aggression create incentives to exaggerate the record and capabilities of Ukraine’s services. The Post vetted key details with multiple sources including Western officials with access to independent streams of intelligence.
The CIA declined to comment.
CIA-Ukraine partnership
SBU and GUR officials describe their expanding operational roles as the result of extraordinary circumstances. “All targets hit by the SBU are completely legal,” the agency’s director, Vasyl Malyuk, said in a statement provided to The Post. The statement did not specifically address targeted killings but Malyuk, who met with top CIA and other U.S. officials in Washington last month, said Ukraine “does everything to ensure that fair punishment will ‘catch up’ with all traitors, war criminals and collaborators.”
Current and former U.S. and Ukrainian officials said both sides have sought to maintain a careful distance between the CIA and the lethal operations carried out by its partners in Kyiv. CIA officials have voiced objections after some operations, officials said, but the agency has not withdrawn support.
“We never involved our international partners in covert operations, especially behind the front lines,” a former senior Ukrainian security official said. SBU and GUR operatives were not accompanied by CIA counterparts. Ukraine avoided using weapons or equipment that could be traced to U.S. sources, and even covert funding streams were segregated.
“We had a lot of restrictions about working with the Ukrainians operationally,” said a former U.S. intelligence official. The emphasis was “more on secure communications and tradecraft,” and pursuing new streams of intelligence inside Russia “rather than ‘here’s how you blow up a mayor.’ I never got the sense that we were that involved in designing their ops.”
Even so, officials acknowledged that boundaries were occasionally blurred. CIA officers in Kyiv were made aware of some of Ukraine’s more ambitious plans for strikes. In some cases, including the bombing of the Kerch Bridge, U.S. officials registered concerns.
Ukraine’s spies developed their own lines about which operations to discuss and which to keep under wraps. “There were some things that maybe we wouldn’t talk about” with CIA counterparts, said a second Ukraine security official involved in such missions. He said crossing those boundaries would lead to a terse reply from Americans: “We don’t want any part of that.”
The CIA’s deep partnership with Ukraine, which persisted even when the country became embroiled in the impeachment scandal surrounding President Donald Trump, represents a dramatic turn for agencies that spent decades on opposing sides of the Cold War. In part because of that legacy, officials said, it was only last year that the CIA removed Ukraine from the agency’s “non-fraternization” list of countries regarded as such security risks that contact with their nationals for agency employees is forbidden without advance permission.
The CIA-Ukraine collaboration took root in the aftermath of 2014 political protests that prompted Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its arming of separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The initial phases of cooperation were tentative, officials said, given concerns on both sides that Ukraine’s services were still heavily penetrated by the FSB — the Russian agency that is the main successor to the KGB. To manage that security risk, the CIA worked with the SBU to create an entirely new directorate, officials said, one that would focus on so-called “active measures” operations against Russia and be insulated from other SBU departments.
The new unit was prosaically dubbed the “Fifth Directorate” to distinguish it from the four long-standing units of the SBU. A sixth directorate has since been added, officials said, to work with Britain’s MI6 spy agency.
Training sites were located outside Kyiv where handpicked recruits were instructed by CIA personnel, officials said. The plan was to form units “capable of operating behind front lines and working as covert groups,” said a Ukrainian official involved in the effort.
The agency provided secure communications gear, eavesdropping equipment that allowed Ukraine to intercept Russian phone calls and emails, and even furnished disguises and separatist uniforms enabling operatives to more easily slip into occupied towns.
The early missions focused on recruiting informants among Russia’s proxy forces as well as cyber and electronic eavesdropping measures, officials said. The SBU also began mounting sabotage operations and missions to capture separatist leaders and Ukrainian collaborators, some of whom were taken to secret detention sites.
But the operations soon took a lethal turn. Over one three-year stretch, at least half a dozen Russian operatives, high-ranking separatist commanders or collaborators were killed in violence that was often attributed to internal score-settling but in reality was the work of the SBU, Ukraine officials said.
Among those killed was Yevgeny Zhilin, the leader of a pro-Russian militant group in eastern Ukraine, who was gunned down in 2016 in a Moscow restaurant. A year later, a rebel commander known as ‘Givi’ was killed in Donetsk as part of an operation in which a woman who accused him of rape was enlisted to plant a bomb at his side, according to a former official involved in the mission.
Ukrainian officials said the country’s turn to more lethal methods was driven by Russian aggression, atrocities attributed to its proxies and desperation to find ways to weaken a more powerful adversary. Many also cited Russia’s own alleged history of conducting assassinations in Kyiv.
“Because of this hybrid war we faced an absolutely new reality,” said Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who served as SBU director in 2015, when the Fifth Directorate was created. “We were forced to train our people in a different way.”
Transforming Ukrainian military intelligence
Even while helping to build the SBU’s new directorate, the CIA embarked on a far more ambitious project with Ukraine’s military intelligence service.
With fewer than 5,000 employees, the GUR was a fraction of the size of the SBU and had a narrower focus on espionage and active measures operations against Russia. It also had a younger workforce with fewer holdovers from Soviet times, while the SBU was still perceived as penetrated by Russian intelligence.
“We calculated that GUR was a smaller and more nimble organization where we could have more impact,” said a former U.S. intelligence official who worked in Ukraine. “GUR was our little baby. We gave them all new equipment and training.” GUR officers “were young guys not Soviet-era KGB generals,” the official said, “while the SBU was too big to reform.”
Even recent developments have seemed to validate such concerns. Former SBU director Ivan Bakanov was forced out of the job last year amid criticism that the agency wasn’t moving aggressively enough against internal traitors. The SBU also discovered last year that Russian-made modems were still being used in the agency’s networks, prompting a scramble to unplug them.
From 2015 on, the CIA embarked on such an extensive transformation of the GUR that within several years “we had kind of rebuilt it from scratch,” the former U.S. intelligence official said. One of the main architects of the effort, who served as CIA station chief in Kyiv, now runs the Ukraine Task Force at CIA headquarters.
The GUR began recruiting operatives for its own new active measures department, officials said. At sites in Ukraine and, later, the United States, GUR operatives were trained on skills ranging from clandestine maneuvers behind enemy lines to weapons platforms and explosives. U.S. officials said the training was aimed at helping Ukrainian operatives protect themselves in dangerous Russian-controlled environments rather than inflicting harm on Russian targets.
Some of the GUR’s newest recruits were transfers from the SBU, officials said, drawn to a rival service flush with new authorities and resources. Among them was Vasyl Burba, who had managed SBU Fifth Directorate operations before joining the GUR and serving as agency director from 2016 to 2020. Burba became such a close ally of the CIA — and perceived Moscow target — that when he was forced from his job after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s election the agency provided him an armored vehicle, officials said. Burba declined to comment for this article.
The CIA helped the GUR acquire state-of-the-art surveillance and electronic eavesdropping systems, officials said. They included mobile equipment that could be placed along Russian-controlled lines in eastern Ukraine, but also software tools used to exploit the cellphones of Kremlin officials visiting occupied territory from Moscow. Ukrainian officers operated the systems, officials said, but everything gleaned was shared with the Americans.
Concerned that the GUR’s aging facilities were likely compromised by Russian intelligence, the CIA paid for new headquarters buildings for the GUR’s “spetsnaz” paramilitary division and a separate directorate responsible for electronic espionage.
The new capabilities were transformative, officials said.
“In one day we could intercept 250,000 to 300,000 separate communications” from Russian military and FSB units, said a former senior GUR official. “There was so much information that we couldn’t manage it ourselves.”
Troves of data were relayed through the new CIA-built facility back to Washington, where they were scrutinized by CIA and NSA analysts, officials said.
“We were giving them the ability — through us — to collect on” Russian targets, the former GUR official said. Asked about the magnitude of the CIA investments, the official said: “It was millions of dollars.”
In time, the GUR had also developed networks of sources in Russia’s security apparatus, including the FSB unit responsible for operations in Ukraine. In a measure of U.S.-Ukraine trust, officials said, the CIA was permitted to have direct contact with agents recruited and run by Ukrainian intelligence.
The resulting intelligence windfall was largely hidden from public view, with intermittent exceptions. The SBU began posting incriminating or embarrassing communications intercepts, including one in which Russian commanders were captured discussing their country’s culpability in the 2014 shoot-down of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet.
Even so, officials said the intelligence obtained through the U.S.-Ukraine cooperation had its limits. The Biden administration’s prescient warnings about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to topple the Kyiv government, for example, were based primarily on separate streams of intelligence Ukraine wasn’t privy to initially.
In some ways, officials said, Ukraine’s own collection efforts fed the skepticism that Zelensky and others had about Putin’s plans because they were eavesdropping on military and FSB units that themselves were not informed until the eve of the war. “They were getting an accurate picture from people who were also in the dark,” one U.S. official said.
Targeting Moscow with drones
Russian forces never succeeded in taking Kyiv. But both GUR structures that the CIA funded were among dozens of key installations targeted in Russian strikes in the war’s first days, according to officials who said the facilities survived and continue to function.
Ukraine’s new intelligence capabilities proved valuable from the start of the war. The SBU, for example, obtained intelligence on high-value Russian targets, enabling strikes that killed several commanders and narrowly missed Russia’s top-ranked officer, Valery Gerasimov.
Over the past year, the security services’ missions have increasingly centered on targets not only behind enemy lines but well into Russia.
For the SBU, no target has been a higher priority than the Kerch Bridge that connects the Russian mainland to the annexed Crimean Peninsula. The bridge is a key military corridor and also carries such symbolic significance to Putin that he presided over its inauguration in 2018.
The SBU has hit the bridge twice over the past year, including an October 2022 bombing that killed five people and put a gaping hole in westbound traffic lanes.
Zelensky initially denied Ukrainian responsibility. But SBU director Malyuk described the operation in extraordinary detail in an interview earlier this year, acknowledging that his service had placed a powerful explosive inside a truck hauling industrial-size rolls of cellophane.
Like other SBU plots, the operation involved unwitting accomplices, including the truck driver killed in the explosion. “We went through seven circles of hell keeping so many people in the dark,” Malyuk said in an interview about the operation, which he said hinged on the susceptibility of “ordinary Russian smugglers.”
U.S. officials who had been notified in advance raised concerns about the attack, officials said, fearing Russian escalation. Those misgivings had presumably dissipated by the time the SBU launched a second strike on the bridge nine months later using naval drones that were developed as part of a top secret operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services.
Malyuk’s highly public account of the operation defies typical intelligence tradecraft but serves Kyiv’s need to claim successes and reflects an emerging rivalry with the GUR. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, has made a habit of touting his agency’s achievements and taunting Moscow.
The two services overlap operationally to some degree, though officials said the SBU tends to pursue more complex missions with longer lead-times while the GUR tends to work at a faster tempo. Ukraine officials denied that either agency was directly involved in the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, though U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies have concluded that Ukraine was linked to the plot.
The GUR has used its own fleet of drones to launch dozens of attacks on Russian soil, including strikes that have penetrated Russian air defenses to hit buildings in Moscow. Among them was a May 2023 operation that briefly set fire to a section of roof in the Kremlin.
Those strikes have involved both long-range drones launched from Ukrainian territory, as well as teams of operatives and partisans working inside Russia, officials said. Motors for some drones were purchased from Chinese suppliers with private funding that couldn’t be traced to Ukrainian sources, according to an official who said he was involved in the transactions.
Assassinations in Russia
GUR has also ventured into assassinations, officials said.
In July, a former Russian submarine commander, Stanislav Rzhitsky, was shot four times in the chest and back in Krasnodar where he reportedly worked as a military recruiting officer. Rzhitsky, 42, was known to use the fitness app Strava to record his daily running routes, a practice that may have exposed his location.
The GUR issued a coy statement deflecting responsibility but citing precise details about the circumstances of Rzhitsky’s death, noting that “due to heavy rain the park was deserted” and there were no witnesses. Officials in Kyiv confirmed the GUR was responsible.
Even while acknowledging responsibility for such actions, Ukrainian officials claim the moral high ground against Russia. The SBU and GUR have sought to avoid harm to innocent bystanders even in lethal operations, officials said, while Russia’s scorched-earth raids and indiscriminate strikes have killed or injured thousands of civilians.
Security officials said that no major operation by the SBU or GUR proceeds without clearance — tacit or otherwise — from Zelensky. A spokesperson for Zelensky did not respond to requests for comment.
Skeptics nevertheless worry Ukraine’s use of targeted killings and drone strikes on Moscow high-rises help neither its cause against Russia nor its longer-term aspirations to join NATO and the E.U.
A senior Ukrainian official who worked closely with Western governments coordinating support for Ukraine said that attacks on noncombatants and bombings of Moscow buildings feed Putin’s false narrative that Ukraine posed a growing danger to ordinary Russians. “It plays into his lies that Ukrainians are coming for them,” the official said.
That view appears to be in the minority. Others see the attacks as boosting morale among besieged Ukrainians and achieving a degree of vigilante accountability for alleged Russian war crimes that many Ukrainians are skeptical will ever lead to adequate sanctions from the United Nations and international courts.
The car bombing that killed Dugina last year continues to stand out as one of the more extreme cases of lethal revenge — one that not only targeted noncombatants but involved a Ukrainian woman and a presumably unwitting pre-teenage girl.
Russian authorities had barely finished clearing the debris when the FSB identified Natalia Vovk, 42, as the principal suspect. She had entered Russia from Estonia in July, according to the FSB, took an apartment in the same complex as Dugina, and spent weeks conducting surveillance before slipping back into Estonia with her daughter after the explosion occurred.
The FSB also identified an alleged accomplice who Russia alleged had provided Kazakh license plates for Vovk to use on her vehicle, a Mini Cooper, while traveling in Russia; helped assemble the explosive; and fled to Estonia before the attack.
Ukraine authorities said Vovk was motivated in part by Russia’s siege of her home city, Mariupol. They declined to comment on the nature of her relationship to the SBU or her current whereabouts.
The attack was intended to kill Dugin as he and his daughter departed a cultural festival where the pro-war ideologue, sometimes branded as “Putin’s brain,” had delivered a lecture. The two were expected to travel together, but Dugin stepped into a different vehicle. Vovk also attended the festival, according to the FSB.
At the time, Ukraine vigorously denounced involvement in the attack. “Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like Russia, or a terrorist one at that,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky.
Officials acknowledged in recent interviews in Kyiv, however, that those denials were false. They confirmed that the SBU planned and executed the operation, and said that while Dugin may have been the principal target, his daughter — also a vocal supporter of the invasion — was no innocent victim.
“She is the daughter of the father of Russian propaganda,” a security official said. The car bombing and other operations inside Russia are “about narrative,” showing enemies of Ukraine that “punishment is imminent even for those who think they are untouchable.”
Israel removes Greta Thunberg from school curriculum over anti-Israel post
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The Education Ministry has said it will remove any reference to climate activist Greta Thunberg after she published a post over the weekend holding an anti-Israel sign reading "stand with Gaza."
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Israeli Military Rebukes Climate Activist Greta Thunberg For Siding With Gaza Over Israel
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A spokesperson for the Israeli navy blasted local weather activist Greta Thunberg after she conveyed “solidarity” with Gaza following a Hamas terrorist assault that killed over 1,400 individuals, together with at the least 31 Individuals.
Thunberg posted an image to Instagram that confirmed her and three different activists holding indicators expressing assist for Palestine because the conflict rages on within the Center East.
Thunberg’s signal reads, “Stand with Gaza.”
“Immediately we’re placing in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza,” the publish is captioned. “The world wants to talk up and name for an instantaneous ceasefire, justice and freedom for Palestinians and all civilians affected.”
Think about turning into well-known for being knowledgeable striker. Actually, any person who refuses to do something, each single day.
Nowhere in Thunberg’s publish is the terrorist assault by Hamas that kickstarted the conflict talked about, neither is there a single phrase in regards to the a whole lot of hostages nonetheless being held in captivity in Gaza.
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С сожалением и понятными пожеланиями, Dimitriy.
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Армянская пресс-служба называет данный орден одной из высших наград Ватикана — но, как всегда есть нюанс. Она занимает лишь третье по рангу место среди папских рыцарских орденов, получить его могут и чиновники папской администрации, и офицеры швейцарской гвардии, и даже дипломаты рангом ниже первых секретарей иностранных посольств. А в данном случае еще и вручена не лично, а через представителя.
К слову, еще в 20 веке данная награда вполне открыто вручалась за службу папе римскому, но позже формулировка изменилась и теперь право на нее имеют представители государств, которые имеют полномасштабные дипломатические отношения с Ватиканом. Даже если они иной веры.
Какую-такую службу мог сослужить понтифику Пашинян — это вопрос, судя по тому, что произошло с Карабахом и происходит с Арменией — риторический.
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Вчера — в пятницу, 13-е — апостольский нунций Святого престола в Армении встретился с главой МИД Араратом Мирзояном и, в благодарность за эффективное сотрудничество, вручил ему папский орден Святого Григория Великого.
Представитель Ватикана подчеркнул, какой же особенной выдалась его миссия в стране, первой принявшей христианство, а Мирзоян высоко оценил двустороннее развитие отношений между сторонами.
Мимоходом собеседники обсудили блокаду и исход армян из Нагорного Карабаха, посокрушавшись, что ничего из этого не удалось предотвратить.
Мы при этом вспомнили, что награды подобного рода делятся на две категории: знаки отличия внешнего уровня — например, за весомый вклад в развитие двусторонних отношений, особые заслуги (что-то типа Ордена дружбы народов) и прочее.
Или же награды внутреннего уровня, призванные публично показать статус награжденного в рамках того или иного государственного образования. При этом вручение знаков отличия из второй категории персонажу со стороны в большинстве случаев выглядит неуместно и приниматься, по-хорошему, не должна. Какая, например, могла бы быть реакция на присвоение звания Героя России действующему американскому чиновнику?
В случае с Мирзояном мы наблюдаем как раз историю с наградой второго типа. Правда, вопрос о том, за что же она вручена, отпадает, когда видишь, что сделали с Карабахом и его христианским населением.
При этом сильно обольщаться мы бы Мирзояну не рекомендовали. Орден Святого Григория Великого — награда одного из низших уровней для рядовых манагеров и отличается от клейма на бараньем боку лишь формой реализации.
К слову, еще несколько лет назад посол Армении в Ватикане получал за заслуги награду Мальтийского ордена, а не побрякушку, которую легко приобрести в Интернете за три тысячи рублей. Видимо, инфляция статуса предателя веры и родины, прогрессирует гораздо сильнее, чем курс отдельных валют.
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Посла России вызвали в МИД Армении из-за передачи на «Первом канале»
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Названии передачи в МИДе республики не уточнили. Однако накануне на «Первом» вышла передача «Никол Пашинян: предвестник беды. Куклы наследника Тутти». «Никол Пашинян многократно отказывался от предложенных российской стороной мирных планов по Нагорному Карабаху со словами «будем воевать», а в итоге сдал территорию без боя. Этим развязал себе руки окончательно и вот на выступлении в Европарламенте уже откровенно дрейфует на уровне риторики в сторону Запада. Своими действиями то ли пытается выйти из ОДКБ и помочь Америке поджечь конфликтный регион, то ли старается усидеть на двух стульях, то ли хочет перетечь от союзников, которых записал в ряды недружественных соседей, к новым кураторам уже официально», — говорится в описании программы.
После начала азербайджанской военной операции в Нагорном Карабахе и подписания указа о роспуске госинститутов непризнанного государства Пашинян заявил, что российские миротворцы могли пресечь действия Баку еще до их начала. «Если миротворцы могли договориться о прекращении огня, почему они не могли до нападения договориться о том, чтобы нападения на Нагорный Карабах не было?» — сказал он. Пашинян отметил, что Ереван несет «свою долю ответственности», но не считает, что нужно «закрывать глаза на неудачи, которые допустили российские миротворческие силы в Нагорном Карабахе».
Спустя месяц после конфликта армянский премьер выступил в Европарламенте, где также обвинил российских миротворцев в бездействии на фоне переселения армянского населения из Нагорного Карабаха. Он также раскритиковал «союзников в области безопасности», не называя конкретных стран, и заявил о готовности сотрудничать с Евросоюзом и стать ближе к этому объединению, насколько это возможно.
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Посол РФ был вызван в МИД Армении
В связи с выпуском 23-го октября 2023 года на общероссийском федеральном телеканале «Первый канал» телепередачи, в ходе которого были озвучены оскорбительные и совершенно неприемлемые высказывания в адрес высокопоставленных официальных лиц Республики Армения, в МИД Армении был вызван посол Российской Федерации в Армении С. П. Копыркин.
В ходе встречи послу была передана соответствующая нота протеста.
Всем же понятно, что дело собственно не в Дагестане? Что тут отрабатывается прямо сейчас технология инфовойны, управления массами? Это просто полигон. Сейчас сотни вражеских специалистов PsyOps внимательно следят за действиями власти, толпы, информационным освещением ситуации. И делают выводы.
Просто в следующий раз, когда авторы учтут свои недоработки, будет другой клич. И не в Дагестане. А против, например, русских угнетателей в каком-нибудь крупном регионе.
И обращен он будет, например, к иностранным рабочим, к мигрантам. "Помни восстание 1916 года".
Скажете, не бывает такого? Да уж конечно. Три войны - Ливия, Сирия, Украина 2014 - запустили через соцсети.
Можно качнуть другую тему. Русские против русских. "Пока вы на фронте...."
Можно запустить тему ненависти регионов к жителям больших городов. "Они живут на ваши деньги"
Такие вот дела. Это "мятежевойна", о которой мы пишем постоянно с коллегами.
Поэтому так важно, чтобы реакция власти на события в Махачкале была быстрой, четкой, внятной и жёсткой.
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Кто бы не стоял за беспорядками в Махачкале, этих людей нужно найти и наказать по всей строгости закона. В России недопустима ненависть по национальному признаку, в России не может быть еврейских, таджикских, украинских, любых других погромов. У нас не может быть "культуры отмены" и механизма навязывания коллективной вины. То, что Тель - Авив убивает мирных жителей Сектра Газа никому в России не дает права так встречать или пытаться встречать людей из Израиля или из любой другой страны. Запад долго старался, чтоб открыть ящик Пандоры. И теперь руками провокаторов радостно пытается разжечь кострище. Мы и воюем сейчас, потому что мы хотим жить в справедливом мире, а для этого мы и с себя должны строго спрашивать.
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Уважаемые дагестанцы, земляки!
Ассаламу алайкум!
Нас всегда отличала особая, уникальная культура гостеприимства, а также уважение и братское отношение ко всем народам, национальностям и вероисповеданиям. Иудеи, евреи веками живут в нашей республике, они так же, как и представители любой другой народности, делят с нами моменты горя и радости. Горские евреи - таты - являются одной 14 титульных наций республики, чей статус закреплен к Конституции Дагестана.
Мы все осуждаем и выступаем против действий израильского государства в Секторе Газа, мы все возмущены античеловеческой политикой израильских властей в отношении палестинцев. Однако не стоит забывать, что мы говорим именно о правительстве Израиля, израильских политиках, но ни в коем случае обо всех евреях и иудеях. Далеко не все они поддерживают тот ужас, который творится на палестинских землях.
Очевидно, что Дагестан, Северный Кавказ - одни из тех территорий, куда виновные в геноциде палестинцев направятся в последнюю очередь. Не забывайте, что многие дагестанцы, в том числе страдающие от смертельно опасных заболеваний, традиционно ездили в Израиль на лечение.
Призываю не поддаваться на провокации, не нарушать закон и освободить территорию махачкалинского аэропорта - режимного объекта, имеющего особый статус. Не будьте пешками в чужой геополитической игре! Помните об ответственности и неотвратимости наказания!
Призываю мыслить трезво и сохранять уважение к представителям других национальностей и религий! Проявляйте уважение к работникам правоохранительных органов, которые охраняют покой и благополучие всех жителей республики.
Мы, дагестанцы, как никто другой знаем, как жить в мире и согласии на протяжении многих веков, и не должны за день растерять все, чему научили нас наши мудрые предки!
Мир вам!
С уважением, депутат Госдумы РФ
Абдулхаким Гаджиев.
Russia removes 'unauthorised citizens' from Makhachkala airport, aviation authority says
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Oct 29 (Reuters) - Russia's aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Sunday that all "unauthorised citizens" had been removed from Makhachkala airport as of 10:20 p.m. Moscow time (1920 GMT).
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Israel urges Russia to protect Israelis, Jews amid Dagestan unrest
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JERUSALEM, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Israel urged Russian authorities on Sunday to protect Israelis and Jews in their jurisdictions following media reports of potential reprisals by pro-Palestinian protesters in the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
A statement by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said the Israeli ambassador in Moscow was working with Russian authorities. "The State of Israel views gravely attempts to harm Israelis citizens and Jews anywhere," the statement said.
Israeli media aired footage from Makhachkala airport in Dagestan appearing to show scores of youths, incensed at the Gaza war, storming the tarmac in search of passengers from a flight that had been due to land from Tel Aviv.
"Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to safeguard all Israeli citizens and Jews, whoever they may be, and to take robust action against the rioters and against the unbridled incitement being directed at Jews and Israelis," the Foreign Ministry statement said.
СК Дагестана возбудил уголовное дело по статье о массовых беспорядках на фоне ситуации в аэропорту Махачкалы.
Сейчас аэропорт закрыт на прилёт и вылет. Толпа с территории не уходит.
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Одним из интернет-ресурсов, который призывает жителей Дагестана выйти на улицы, является канал из сетки беглого экс-депутата ГД и иноагента Ильи Пономарёва.
Ранее RT сообщал, что Пономарёв — куратор так называемого Русского добровольческого корпуса, который в марте совершил диверсию в Брянской области.
Сегодня после призывов в соцсетях протестующие прорвались на территорию аэропорта Махачкалы, в том числе в здание аэропорта и на взлётную полосу. Несанкционированный митинг собрался из-за прилёта рейса из Тель-Авива, погромщики искали прибывших израильтян.
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Толпа возле аэропорта в Махачкале обрушила свой гнев на силовиков, пытавшихся прекратить беспорядки. На кадрах люди пытаются перевернуть машину полиции.
Погромщики недовольны прилётом рейса из Тель-Авива. Протестующие прорвались на территорию аэропорта, в том числе на взлётную полосу, чтобы отыскать израильтян.
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Власти Израиля следят за развитием событий в Дагестане, где проходит акция протеста в аэропорту Махачкалы, и рассчитывают на то, что правоохранительные органы РФ обеспечат израильтянам и евреям защиту
Об этом говорится в совместном заявлении МИД Израиля и канцелярии премьер-министра страны Биньямина Нетаньяху.
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Провокаторы в соцсетях призывают жителей Дагестана выйти на массовый митинг, если сегодня будут задержания в аэропорту Махачкалы.
Сейчас на территории аэропорта и возле него собралась большая толпа, недовольная прилётом рейса из Тель-Авива. Некоторые активисты прорвались на взлётную полосу.
MUSLIM MOBS IN RUSSIA STORM AIRPORT TRYING TO LYNCH JEWS
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Residents of Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, heavily Muslim, stormed the city’s airport in an attempt to attack passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv Sunday. Video clips show hundreds breaking down airport doors, running through the terminal, and even onto the tarmac in an apparent attempt to kill Jews and Israelis on the plane. Some screamed “Allah HuAkhbar.”
Videos show attempts to climb onto the wings of the plane, Red Wings flight #WZ4728 from Tel Aviv earlier tonight. in an attempt to break in. Some videos appeared to show confrontations of the mob with passengers. They have violently rocked a mini-bus transporting passengers, demanding a technician to say “where the Jews are.”
There are Israelis trapped either on the airplace or in the terminal, awaiting rescue. The Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Dagestan called for the evacuation of about 400 families, totalling about 1000 Jews, who reside in the Muslim-dominated republic.
Israeli N12 TV also reported that mobs in Muslim-dominated areas of Russia have been breaking into hotels looking for Israelis.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has contacted officials in Moscow, calling on Russia to protect Israeli and Jewish passengers.
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A swarm of local residents in Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan stormed an airport in the city in an attempt to attack any Jews and Israelis set to arrive on a "Red Wings" flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to local media reports.
In Makhachkala, locals storm the airport after a plane from Tel-Aviv arrives. They check passports, looking for Israelis. The police don’t interfere. — olexander scherba (@olex_scherba) October 29, 2023
According to N12, the pilots were warned of the mob and rerouted the plane to land at a nearby airport. The rioters reached that one as well. The flight staff ordered the locking of all aircraft exits, while security forces closed the area off. Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia said all aircraft were diverted to other airports. A security source said that a small number of Israelis and Jews were secured in the airport, and were set to be evacuated to Moscow "at the earliest convenience."
As of 10:20pm Moscow time (19:20 GMT), Russia's aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Sunday that all "unauthorized citizens" had been removed from Makhachkala airport, Reuters reported.
The Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the National Security Council are monitoring the situation, amd said that "Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis."
Footage reportedly from the scene shared on local Telegram channels showed a hoard of people, Muslim pro-Palestinians, chanting "Allahu Akbar" and stopping cars to check the documents of passengers, ensuring they were not Israeli or Jewish, carrying Palestinian flags. In one of the videos that circulated social media, a rioter can be heard saying: "We are here for the Jews, we came to kill them with knives and shoot at them."
The Republic of Dagestan, which sits along the coast of the Caspian Sea, is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. There are an estimated 400 Jewish families in the region, with a 2012 survey indicating that 83% of the population is Muslim.
Rioters search hotel for Jews
In Khasavyurt, also located in Dagestan, rioters gathered at a hotel where Israelis who had fled the fighting were reported to be staying, with some of the rioters entering the hotel and only leaving after ensuring that no Israelis were in the hotel.
The “ChP Dagestan” Telegram channel reported that the riots in Khasavyurt began after “a person resembling an Israeli citizen” was seen walking near the hotel.
The Russian Echo FM radio reported that a resident of Dagestan stated “I went into every room, I checked every person. I looked at the passport, looked at the face to see if this face corresponded to the passport. There are no [Jews] there, brothers, you are simply being provoked. We need to go home. Well done to everyone who came, you’re all caring.”
Israeli officials monitoring the situation in Dagestan
The Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign Ministry stressed on Sunday that “The State of Israel takes seriously attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews everywhere.”
The Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the National Security Council are monitoring the situation. “Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.”
Former chief rabbi of Moscow and the chairman of the Conference of European Rabbis Pinchas Goldschmidt said the CER is "concerned about the situation of the Jews in Dagestan, with the reports of calls for pogroms against the Jews in the republic’s cities. President [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for the peace of the Jews in his country and we hope that he will give an unequivocal instruction to the local government not to allow riots and pogroms against the Jews.”
Where are the Russian security forces? All in Ukraine? The definition of a pogrom is: inaction of the security forces during riots.
— Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (@PinchasRabbi) October 29, 2023
Goldschmidt addressed the violence in a post on X as well, writing "Where are the Russian security forces? All in Ukraine? The definition of a pogrom is: inaction of the security forces during riots."
Zelensky: Riot in Dagestan not an isolated incident
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incident was not isolated but is rather "part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which is propagated by state television, pundits, and authorities." Zelensky pointed to several antisemitic comments made by Russian officials in the past year.
Appalling videos from Makhachkala, Russia, where an angry mob broke into the airport searching for Israeli citizens on the flight from Tel-Aviv.This is not an isolated incident in Makhachkala, but rather part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 29, 2023
Zelensky pointed to several antisemitic comments made by Russian officials in the past year, saying “for Russian propaganda talking heads on official television, hate rhetoric is routine. Even the most recent Middle East escalation prompted antisemitic statements from Russian ideologists.”
“Russian antisemitism and hatred toward other nations are systemic and deeply rooted. Hatred is what drives aggression and terror. We must all work together to oppose hatred.”
Chief rabbi warns against allowing extremism in Russia
During a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar told Putin “we have not encountered state antisemitism for many years, and there is no antisemitism on the street either, but we have experience from the past. Therefore, our main request to the authorities, federal and local: a constant and uncompromising fight against extremism.”
After the violence reported on Saturday and Sunday, Lazar stated "We live in very difficult times, and unfortunately, in the last few weeks the difficulties have only increased. Terrorist attacks, conflicts between countries, entire regions are engulfed in violence with no end in sight. Instead of peace, mutual understanding, mutual help for common development - tension, hatred, and even atrocities are increasing. Entire cities, and in some places entire countries, fall under the rule of terrorists who commit crimes against humanity.”
Lazar noted that the relations between different communities in Russia are being “tested.”
“These events did not happen by chance, they were preceded by a passionate propaganda of extremism and terrorism on social networks. It is clear that we cannot really influence what is happening in the Gaza Strip or on the Lebanese border: we can only pray together that peace will finally come. But we can, and even must worry, that the poisonous seeds of extremism and terrorism will not affect, God forbid, from there to here.”
“I have no doubt that the aggressive actions of extremists blinded by hatred in Cherkasy and Benalchik will be severely rejected by the authorities!”
The chief rabbi called on all residents of Russia to work together to “preserve the unique atmosphere of mutual respect and support that makes Russia a good place to live in.”
Local Muslim leaders condemn violence
The Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus condemned the riots, stating on Saturday “In recent days, we have been faced with provocations of destructive forces who, purely for personal selfish interests, in order to incite interfaith hatred in the North Caucasus, are trying to call on Muslims to take to the streets against all Jews, including Jewish citizens of the Russian Federation who have been living peacefully on our territory for centuries, who have nothing to do with the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, the United States, and their minions.”
The center stressed that the violence “is contrary to the spirit of the Islamic religion and the traditions of the peoples of the North Caucasus. Antisemitism has no place in the multinational North Caucasus.”
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С сожалением и понятными пожеланиями, Dimitriy.
Судя по количеству и качеству опубликованных материалов, события в аэропорту - спланированная просчитанная англосаксонская провокация.
И конечно государственный иудеофашизм. Даже удивительно как СМИ Израиля могут эту ересь публиковать.
Да, разумные публикации есть и не только в арабской прессе, но их число критически не велико и скорее подтверждает правило, чем исключает его.
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Crowd storms Russian airport to protest flight from Israel
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MOSCOW: Hundreds of people on Sunday stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the arrival of an airliner from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.
Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
Russian news reports said people in the crowd were shouting antisemitic slogans and tried to storm the airliner belonging to Russian carrier Red Wings.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd on the landing field waving Palestinian flags, protesters attempting to overturn a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who had arrived in Makhachkala.
In a statement released Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.” Netanyahu’s office added that the Israeli ambassador to Russia was working with Russia to keep Israelis and Jews safe.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District, where Dagestan is located, stated that CCTV footage would be used to establish the identities of those who stormed the airport, and that those involved would be brought to justice.
While voicing support for Gaza, the regional Dagestani government appealed to citizens to remain calm and not take part in such protests.
“We urge residents of the republic to treat the current situation in the world with understanding. Federal authorities and international organizations are making every effort to bring about a cease-fire against Gaza civilians … we urge residents of the republic not to succumb to the provocations of destructive groups and not to create panic in society,” the Dagestani government wrote on Telegram.
The Supreme Mufti of Dagestan, Sheikh Akhmad Afandi, called on residents to stop the unrest at the airport.
“You are mistaken. This issue cannot be resolved in this way. We understand and perceive your indignation very painfully. ... We will solve this issue differently. Not with rallies, but appropriately. Maximum patience and calm for you,” he said in a video published to Telegram.
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Raging pro-Palestine mob storms airport in Russia shouting ‘where are the Jews?’ after plane lands from Israel
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Many protestors even made it onto the tarmac as the angry mob surrounded planes on arrival.
This was reportedly in an attempt to attack any Jews who arrived on the flight from Israel, according to reports from Russian media.
Visegrad 24 claims that some members of the pack interrogated one of the plane technicians, asking him: "tell us where the Jews are".
Overwhelmed staff pleaded with the mob to leave as they stormed into the airport, forcing open doors and overturning equipment.
Some were seen flying Palestinian flags as hundreds raced up escalators and barged through security.
Signs held by demonstrators read “Child killers have no place in Dagestan” and “We are against Jewish refugees.”
And one group of people who ran onto the airport's tarmac surrounded a plane before jumping onto one of its wings, Kremlin newspaper Izvestia reported.
Footage reportedly from the scene shared on local Telegram channels showed rioters chanting “Allahu Akbar”.
Meanwhile, video from the scene shared on X, apparently showed a pilot onboard a plane instructing passengers not to attempt to open any doors due to rioters attempting to gain access to the aircraft.
Others appeared to set up a make-shift roadblock and searched cars in front of the airport.
They demanded to check the passports of passengers to find out whether they were Israeli or Jewish, reports the Jerusalem Post.
The outlet also claims that in Khasavyurt, also located in Dagestan, rioters gathered at a hotel where Israelis who had fled the fighting were reported to be staying.
It is alleged that some entered the hotel and checked door-to-door, only leaving after ensuring that no Jewish people in the property.
Dagestan, which is part of the Russian Federation, has a Muslim-majority population.
Sota reports that special forces have been deployed on the runway.
The airport has paused all operations, with two incoming flights already sent into a holding pattern.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office and Foreign Ministry said they were monitoring the situation in Dagestan and said no Israeli nationals or Jewish people were onboard the Tel Aviv-Makhachkala flight.
According to Channel 12, the crowd was apparently largely made up of Palestinian expats.
The incident, has raised concerns as tensions surrounding the Gaza-Israel war appear to have spilled over into unexpected places.
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Flight from Israel to Russia’s Dagestan diverts as pro-Palestinian mob storms terminal
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A flight from Israel to the Russian Republic of Dagestan earlier today was forced to divert from its intended destination in the capital of Makhachkala after pro-Palestinians protesters stormed the airport, seeking to attack the Israeli arrivals, according to multiple reports.
The plane landed at an alternate airport, but faced riots there as well, according to Channel 12. Passengers were instructed to remain inside the plane and riot police were called to the scene to protect them, the report says.
Footage showed a mob rampaging through an airport terminal after learning of the incoming flight.
Dagestan’s population is overwhelmingly Muslim. According to Channel 12, the crowd was apparently largely made up of Palestinian expats.
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Crowd storms Russian airport to protest flight from Israel
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MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the arrival of an airliner from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.
Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
Russian news reports said people in the crowd were shouting antisemitic slogans and tried to storm the airliner belonging to Russian carrier Red Wings.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd on the landing field waving Palestinian flags, protesters attempting to overturn a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who had arrived in Makhachkala.
In a statement released Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.” Netanyahu’s office added that the Israeli ambassador to Russia was working with Russia to keep Israelis and Jews safe.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District, where Dagestan is located, stated that CCTV footage would be used to establish the identities of those who stormed the airport, and that those involved would be brought to justice.
While voicing support for Gaza, the regional Dagestani government appealed to citizens to remain calm and not take part in such protests.
“We urge residents of the republic to treat the current situation in the world with understanding. Federal authorities and international organizations are making every effort to bring about a ceasefire against Gaza civilians … we urge residents of the republic not to succumb to the provocations of destructive groups and not to create panic in society,” the Dagestani government wrote on Telegram.
The Supreme Mufti of Dagestan, Sheikh Akhmad Afandi, called on residents to stop the unrest at the airport.
“You are mistaken. This issue cannot be resolved in this way. We understand and perceive your indignation very painfully. ... We will solve this issue differently. Not with rallies, but appropriately. Maximum patience and calm for you,” he said in a video published to Telegram.
Russia’s civilian aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, later reported that the airfield had been cleared of unauthorized people, but that the airport would tentatively remain closed to incoming aircraft until Nov. 6.
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Russians storm airport in attempt to attack passengers of Israeli flight - report
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Local residents in Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan stormed an airport in the city in an attempt to attack any Jews who arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to reports from Russian media.
Footage reportedly from the scene shared on local Telegram channels showed rioters chanting “Allahu Akbar” and stopping cars in order to check the documents of passengers to ensure they were not Israeli or Jewish.
The rioters could also be seen carrying Palestinian flags while running through the airport and even rioters reaching planes on the runway. Russian security forces were not recorded to have intervened amid the violence.
In Khasavyurt, also located in Dagestan, rioters gathered at a hotel where Israelis who had fled the fighting were reported to be staying, with some of the rioters entering the hotel and only leaving after ensuring that no Israelis were in the hotel.
The “ChP Dagestan” Telegram channel reported that the riots in Khasavyurt began after “a person resembling an Israeli citizen” was seen walking near the hotel.
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A mob stormed the main airport in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan late on Sunday, brandishing Palestinian flags and reportedly searching for Israeli passengers from a flight that had landed from Tel Aviv earlier in the day. The angry crowds in the Caucasus region broke into the airport, stormed through the building and encircled the plane, with some attempting to board the aircraft, climbing on to its wings and roof. Videos shared on social media showed dozens of men on the runway, with some accosting an airport worker who insisted that there were no longer any passengers on board. There are regular flights from Tel Aviv to Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala, often taken by passengers transiting to other Russian cities. The violence appears to have been triggered by rumours that refugees from Israel were being relocated to the Muslim-majority region. Crowds also stormed a hotel in Dagestan on Saturday night, searching for Israelis, according to local media coverage. Kommersant reported that a Jewish centre under construction in Nalchik, the capital of the nearby Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was also set on fire. Before the airport in Makhachkala was stormed, videos posted to local Dagestan channels on the Telegram messaging app appeared to show dozens of men policing the airport’s exit, checking the passports of passengers leaving in their cars. “We are waiting for the arrival [of the plane],” a man could be heard saying in one clip.
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Several protests in support of Palestine have taken place in cities across the Caucasus in recent days, despite strict rules prohibiting public demonstrations in Russia. Participants have expressed anger about Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza strip, which has killed more than 8,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry, and followed the attack on October 7 by Hamas militants which killed at least 1,400 Israelis. Vladimir Putin has signalled a pro-Palestine position, and the Kremlin last week welcomed members of the leadership of Hamas to Russia for talks, including over Russian citizens held hostage by the Gaza-based group. Russia’s Rosaviatsia aviation agency said that Makhchkala’s airport was temporarily closed on Sunday, with flights due to land there being redirected to other airports. Hours later, riot police were seen entering the building and the local government claimed that the situation was under control. The Russian investigative committee in Dagestan announced that it had opened a criminal case over a “mass disturbance”. “The state of Israel views gravely attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews everywhere,” the office of Israel’s prime minister said in a statement, adding that its government was following developments in Dagestan closely. “Israel expects Russian law enforcement authorities to safeguard the welfare of all Israeli citizens and Jews and act decisively against rioters and against wild incitement directed at Jews and Israelis,” the statement said, adding that Israel’s ambassador to Russia was working with Russian authorities to ensure the welfare of Israelis and Jews on the scene. A member of Dagestan’s chief rabbinate said on Sunday that there were between 300 and 400 Jewish families in Derbent, a major city in Dagestan, and around the same number scattered around the region. He said that he did not rule out the possibility that members of the community would flee the region.
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“The situation is very difficult in Dagestan, the community is very afraid,” Rabbi Ovadya Isakov was cited as saying in an interview with Podyom, a small Russian online media outlet. “Russia is not a panacea, there were pogroms in Russia too. It’s not clear where to flee to.” Some of the rumours appear to have been fomented by a Telegram channel called Morning Dagestan, which has more than 50,000 readers. The channel has been affiliated with Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based former Russian politician who opposes the Kremlin and claims to co-ordinate a group of Russians fighting against Moscow in Ukraine, members of which have been known to hold extreme far-right views. Ponomarev stated on Sunday that he had not controlled the channel for more than a year.
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Pro-Hamas mob storms Russian airport looking for Jews on flight from Israel
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“We came for the Jews — to kill them with a knife and shoot them,” a rioter was quoted as saying.
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'Anti-Israeli mob' storms airport in Dagestan 'searching for Jews' forcing flight from Tel Aviv to divert
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued a statement as he said the mob's actions are "not an isolated incident...but part of Russia's widespread culture of hatred towards other nations".
"Appalling videos from Makhachkala, Russia, where an angry mob broke into the airport searching for Israeli citizens on the flight from Tel-Aviv," he said.
Appalling videos from Makhachkala, Russia, where an angry mob broke into the airport searching for Israeli citizens on the flight from Tel-Aviv.
This is not an isolated incident in Makhachkala, but rather part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 29, 2023
"This is not an isolated incident in Makhachkala, but rather part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which is propagated by state television, pundits, and authorities.
"The Russian foreign minister has made a series of antisemitic remarks in the last year. The Russian President also used antisemitic slurs. For Russian propaganda talking heads on official television, hate rhetoric is routine.
"Even the most recent Middle East escalation prompted antisemitic statements from Russian ideologists. Russian antisemitism and hatred toward other nations are systemic and deeply rooted.
'Hatred is what drives aggression and terror. We must all work together to oppose hatred."
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Israeli Travelers Under Attack at Airports and Hotels in Dagestan, Russia
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How did Jewish passengers get attacked in Russia?
Those gathered allegedly chanted anti-Semitic slurs and attempted to storm the plane as it landed in Moscow from Tel Aviv, according to Russian media. Onlookers on the landing field were seen waving Palestinian flags in a video shared online.
Several pro-Palestinian protestors were seen in footage shared to social media crashing down terminal doors, storming onto the runway, and smashing over barricades to inspect automobiles exiting the airport.
In addition, a large number of people flocked to the airport. According to the Russian Federal Agency for Air Transportation (Rosaviatsia), the airport was temporarily closed, and inbound flights were rerouted to other destinations.
Dagestan’s administration said, “The situation is under control, law enforcement is working at the scene.”
Israel has asked Russia to safeguard Israelis and Jews.
Following rumors of potential reprisals by pro-Palestinian protestors in Dagestan, Israel has asked Russian authorities to safeguard Israelis and Jews in their territories.
According to a statement released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Israeli ambassador in Russia is coordinating with local authorities. “The State of Israel views grave attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews anywhere,” said the press release.
“Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to safeguard all Israeli citizens and Jews, whoever they may be, and to take robust action against the rioters and against the unbridled incitement being directed at Jews and Israelis,” stated a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
Rage against Jews in the North Caucasus
As crowds gathered at the local airport to search for Israelis, authorities urged them to desist from their “illegal acts” and urged locals not to “succumb to provocations.”
“We recommend that all persons who have violated the operating procedures of the (airport) facility not to continue illegal acts and not to interfere with the work of airport employees,” Dagestan’s official Telegram account stated.
As part of a larger tendency in the predominately Muslim region of the North Caucasus, the storming of Makhachkala airport was not an isolated occurrence.
Israelis attacked in a Russian Hotel
On Saturday, a report that Israeli migrants were sleeping at a hotel in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan prompted a mob of irate locals to surround the building. Several hundred guys, according to local sources, entered the hotel and purportedly checked the visitors’ passports.
Arcon on Jewish Community Center
On Sunday, arsonists torched tires outside a new Jewish community center in Nalchik. Security officials in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria said that extremist slogans, including “Death to the Jews,” were spray-painted on the building.
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An airport in Russia has been plunged into chaos after thousands of people turned up to take part in a horrifying “Jew hunt”.
Disturbing video footage – which the Daily Star hasn't been able to verify, but Russian news outlets are claiming is true – shows an airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia swarmed by a huge angry mob trying to get into every part of the airport to “hunt for Jews”. The chaos was sparked after locals had heard that a flight from Israel was landing at the airport, which was forced to divert, and chants of “Allahu Akbar” are heard in the video, as scared staff are seen locking themselves in office, while local police on site were telling everyone to “go home”.
The rioters were also seen breaking the airport's perimetre fence and attempting to get onto the runway in one of many videos going viral form the scene. And one video shows them bolting down the runway to get to passengers exiting the plane, and the passengers quickly returning to the plane for safety – they were heard speaking in Russian, but it is not clear where they had landed from.
The riots took an even more sinister turn, with OSINTdefender – a social media monitoring account – claiming some 'Muslims' have stormed the airport in the Republic of Dagestan after rumors began that an Israeli aircraft was preparing to land there. The mob reportedly wanted to 'Kill Israelis and Jews', according to the OSINTdefender account.
The have been going in for the last several hours, with Pro-Hamas Supporters having stormed a number of hotels and other public locations across the region, according to reports.
According to Kabka 3 news: “The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan opened a criminal case under Article 212 - mass riots (organization of mass riots accompanied by violence, pogroms, arson, destruction of property, the use of firearms, explosives or explosive devices, as well as armed resistance to a government official). The commission of this crime is punishable by imprisonment for a term of eight to fifteen years.”
Several Russian news outlets claim that there have been anti-Israel protests taking place in recent days, with some claiming that many of them showed support to Hamas – designated as a terror group by the UK in 2021. Oddly, it was also claimed by Kabka 3 that the “Jewish person” they were looking for was actually a cardiovascual doctor from Uzbekistan who wasn't actually Jewish.
A Senior Israeli security official has stated that they are currently coordinating Russian Security Services in Dagestan to ensure the safety of a small group of Israelis/Jews who have been taken by bus to a secure location at the airport. A flight to Moscow is currently being planned with Russian officials, but it is not known now long that could take.
The video footage caused anger on social media, with one person stating on Twitter/X: “Look at that...Russians can protest! Just not against invading their neighbours... apparently, only against Jews coming to their airport. “But, sure, they are waging a glorious war against the "nazis" in Ukraine.”
And another wrote: “In Makhachkala, Russia, the 'Jew hunt' at the airport continues into the night.". And a third compared it to the "pogroms" of Jews which took place in Russia in 1881.
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Председатель правительства Дагестана Абдулмуслим Абдулмуслимов:
«Силы всех ведомств мобилизованы. Мы всячески сопереживаем жителям Палестины и понимаем чувства наших граждан.
Но нельзя распространять панические настроения. Испокон веков дагестанцы — это взвешенные и справедливые люди».
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В результате столкновений в аэропорту Махачкалы есть пострадавшие среди полицейских и гражданских, 2 человека в крайне тяжелом состоянии, — Минздрав Республики.
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Главное к концу дня войны Израиля с ХАМАС.
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• В республиках российского Северного Кавказа учащаются антисемитские инциденты. Самых крупный произошел в аэропорту Махачкалы перед прибытием регулярного рейса из Тель-Авива, куда ворвалась толпа людей с палестинскими флагами, силой выбивали двери служебных помещений и требовали показать, куда спрятали «беженцев из Израиля» (ничто не указывает, что такие беженцы на этом рейсе были). Они на некоторое время проникли и на летное поле. Аэропорт остается закрытым, предварительно аж до 6 ноября, там продолжает оставаться какое-то количество протестующих. Сообщается о пока не известном количестве пострадавших.
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Посол Израиля Михаил Бродский заявил, что Украина является "самой произраильской страной в Европе" и поэтому может признать ХАМАС террористами.
Об этом он заявил в интервью Ynet.
"Мы работаем с несколькими депутатами Рады, украинского парламента, и пытаемся продвигать признание ХАМАСа террористической организацией. Мы надеемся, что сейчас, в связи с тем, что произошло, и поскольку среди убитых более 20 граждан Украины и двое похищенных имеют украинское гражданство, есть большая вероятность, что Украина примет решение объявить ХАМАС и, возможно, "Хезболлу" террористическими организациями", - сказал дипломат.
Он заявил, что у данной идеи "есть большинство в украинском парламенте". "Надеюсь, что совместными усилиями мы сможем продвинуть это решение в ближайшее время", - добавил Бродский.
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С сожалением и понятными пожеланиями, Dimitriy.
На Украине запланировали провести «смарт-мобилизацию».
Как заявил 30 октября вице-премьер — министр цифровой трансформации страны Михаил Фёдоров, она может пройти в течение одного-двух ближайших месяцев и подразумевает самостоятельный выбор гражданином воинской специальности, по которой он готов служить.
Это еще раз подтверждает, что потери на Украине огромны и идет подготовка ко всеобщей мобилизации.
Всё просто:
• ИСО>ЕСО, в основном, призыв, вспомогательно – контракт.
• ЕСО>ИСО, в основном контракт, вспомогательно – призыв.
Инициатива фашистского правительства Украины вернутся от контракта к призыву обусловлена не столько стремлением к оптимизации процедур, сколько потребностью в кратном увеличении числа потенциальных рекрутов.
Дело в том, что повальной мобилизации в ИСО>ЕСО противостоят нравственность, порядочность, совестливость и любовь воплощённые в Образе Жизни обслуживаемом Религией(Природой), по этому в ИСО>ЕСО, например в России, в СССР, даже тотальная мобилизация всегда носила избирательный ограниченный человеколюбивый характер.
Вклад Украины в войну с Россией – геополитическое положение и людской ресурс.
Людской ресурс по правилам набора в контрактную армию практически исчерпан.
Значит нужно переходить к тотальной воинской. Тем более, что на Украине вместо Церкви - ПЦУ, вместо общества - стадо, а вместо правительства - госдеп США. То есть защитить украинцев от войны более некому. Все, к кому можно будет прислонить оружие будут отправлены на фронт.
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