In an apparent assassination
Congress and national intelligence are investigating ties between Trump and his campaign and Russia, and today we get another unsubtle bumping off:
A former Russian parliamentarian named Denis Voronenkov, who fled Russia last October and has criticized President Vladimir Putin’s government, was killed in Kiev on Thursday, in an apparent assassination that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is reportedly calling “state terrorism.”
Voronenkov, 45, had just left the Premier Palace hotel when he was shot twice in the head on a sidewalk along a busy street in Ukraine’s capital, according to the Kyiv Post. Citing police, the newspaper adds that both Voronenkov’s bodyguard and the attacker were wounded and in the hospital.
The killing has the “handwriting” of the Russian special services, Poroshenko said in a statement Thursday. According to a translation by Reuters, he said Voronenkov’s murder was “an act of state terrorism on the part of Russia, which he was forced to leave for political reasons.”
Responding to those accusations, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “We believe that all speculations about a Russian connection are absurd,” according to state-run Tass media. He also said Ukraine “had proved unable to take care of Voronenkov’s security,” the outlet reports.
Poroshenko said Voronenkov was a key witness in Ukraine’s inquiry into former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian military involvement in the country.
It feels a bit like being locked in a basement watching a pool of sewage rise higher and higher.
And knowing that the person who holds the keys to the basement is either a brutal dictator (Putin) or a would-be brutal dictator in a clown suit (Trump).
I’ve been ruminating whether the long series of recent expedient demise of Russian diplomats and other key persons in a putative investigation into so-called president swump maybe started with the late mogul Mr Breitbart of fake media fame? But then, who could have had anything to gain? I couldn’t possibly comment.
Combine that with the sabotage at the Ukrainian government arms dump. Bet Donnie either does nothing or just mumbles. In the meantime a nascent democracy is being slowly strangled.
One nascent; one once a hallmark.
Rrr, Yes, fair point.
The attacker wounded, and in custody, doesn’t sound like the usual practice for dealing with people inconvenient to Vlad. Semi-official assassinations in the Russo-sphere don’t usually go off with so much evidence left behind.
And the Stein voters are still claiming that ‘Russia is just a distraction…we’re being lied to.’