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Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty

71 points by cwwc

by euroderf

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I hope there's gonna be an intel history of this war published. SIGINT, HUMINT, it's gonna all be fascinating.

by vga42

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Some scams are pretty great.

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by netsharc

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While writing the question "So, how did the money exchange hands?" I came up with a hypothesis: I guess the Russian regime have offshore accounts and would've transferred the amount to another foreign account they assume to belong to the killer, but actually is ultimately controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
If the money stayed in the Russian banking system, I can imagine they could've seized the recipient account, and transferring such a large amount out of the country would be difficult (although it's peanuts in the world of dark finances)

by bgbntty2

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https://archive.ph/b9Aft
https://web.archive.org/web/20260102081357/https://www.teleg...

by drysine

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Why not say Russia paid $5000k? It's not like they offered any proof.
Meanwhile, I find it is quite telling that the Telegraph paints him as "one of the most prominent anti-Putin Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine" and quotes him saying “We fight to change something in Russia. When the war ends, I will continue fighting until Putin falls,” while completely failing to mention what he is fighting for.
His nickname "White Rex" might give a clue, though.
Here is how a Reuters article describes him:
"The RVC was founded by Moscow-born Denis Kapustin, also known as Denis Nikitin or by the nom de guerre White Rex. The Antifascist Europe monitoring project says he is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist.
Nikitin, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has frequently described himself as a nationalist fighting for a Russia that belongs to ethnic Russians" [0]
He used to live in Europe and before the war Germans had something to say about him too:
"The interior ministry of Herbert Reul (CDU) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, called him "one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists" in Germany, and noted that he professionalized the fighting subculture in the country."[1]
That's the kind of Russians that chooses to fight along with current Ukrainian regime and gets glorified by Western media.
It fills me with disgust how Western propaganda works.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-russians-end-up-far...
[1] https://www.bfmtv.com/international/asie/russie/guerre-en-uk...

by Argonaut998

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Ukraine are not doing themselves any favours with antics like this.

by elephantum

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Making this case public should drop a shadow of doubt onto other Ukraine statements
Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one