Ukraine’s CIA-backed military intelligence has taken credit for a car bombing that killed a politician in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.
Mikhail Filiponenko, a member of the local Russian-backed legislature in Luhansk and former police chief, was killed in his car outside of his house. He was born in the Ukrainian oblast and joined the separatists who declared the creation of the Luhansk People’s Republic in 2014 following the coup that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych.
According to AP, Filiponenko had survived a previous car bombing on February 21, 2022, three days before Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate, known as the GUR, claimed that Filiponenko was involved in torture camps in Luhansk.
Andriy Cherniak, a representative for the GUR, told POLITICO that the Wednesday killing of Filiponenko was “our operation.” The GUR said in a statement that it had the addresses of all “traitors” and warned that “all war criminals and collaborators will receive a fair retribution! The hunt continues!”
A recent report from The Washington Post detailed how the CIA helped build up the GUR and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), including tens of millions of dollars in funding since 2015. A former US intelligence official described the GUR as “our little baby” and said the US provided “all new equipment and training.”
Russia takes Credit for the thousands of missiles they have indiscriminately fired into Ukrainian civilian centers.
But somehow have not managed to kill as many civilians in 20+ months as Israel has in 1. Every civilian casualty is a crime of course, but when compared to U.S. casualty rates of civilians in its wars Russia is playing with kid gloves.
Ok, great. Then let’s not pay attention to what Russia is doing because the US has a higher record.
That’s dumb, Everyone should be held accountable regardless of record.
Who’s not paying attention? I don’t think I’ve ever heard you criticize the USA’s humanitarian record. It’s almost like you aren’t, well, paying attention.
I don’t have to, you guys do it for me all day long here plus I’m not here to criticize US on just about everything that is wrong with the world while at the same time support its adversaries like you do. I’m here to support Ukraine and call out the country that invaded them. This is antiwar.com, not antiUSwar.com
All f*cking belligerents should be condemned. A very few here and I get insulted for supporting Ukraine’s fight for its freedom. You are all in bed with Putin and unbalanced article authors such as Dave DeCamp feed your movement daily so we bring the balance in the blog.
If you are pro-war then you need better arguments than “You are all in bed…” to convince anti-war persons that they are wrong.
Basic: is Wilson’s principle of self-determination by voting still valid or not?
And I’m here to call out the country that started the war in Ukraine by funding a violent coup that overthrew the democratically elected leader of Ukraine.
Listen is Putin a war criminal? Probably, but he’s not the leader of my country and I don’t think my country, the USA has any moral superiority or authority to tell Russia how it should conduct its wars (which I oppose). I don’t know if you are American, but if you are you need to (as Jesus urged) pull the plank out of your own eye before you point out the speck in your brother’s.
Here are the numbers:
600,000+ Iraqi civillians killed 2003-2006 = ~16,500 killed per month (the final death toll resulting for our destruction of Iraq will never be known as “we don’t do body counts,” but it can probably be placed somewhere in the 1.5 – 2 million ballpark)
10,000+ Ukrainian civilians killed Feb 24, 2022-Nov 9, 2023 = ~460 killed per month (and not all of those were killed by the Russians btw)
Now if you want to really dig in and look at the post cold war body counts of both the Russian and American militaries, I’m all game as both have massive amounts of blood on their hands. But an honest appraisal shows that one country (the USA) has several orders of magnitude more deaths on their hands. The USA is my country, not Russia, therefore it would be hypocritical, dishonest, and patronizing for me to try and lecture Russia on how to conduct it’s wars. That being said I am opposed to the war as evidenced by my constant calls for a ceasefire followed by negotiations. My primary focus, though is to advocate for radical reform of the American system before it is too late. Part of that reform would be to stop sticking our noses into places like Ukraine.
You want to pretend that the conflict in Ukraine started in 2022, and even when you can be shamed into admitting that it had a much earlier start, you place the blame solely on Russia. You ignore well documented history. You ignore the role of the USA in the Maidan coup. You are a neocon hypocrite. Much like Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Co. you ignore history and create your own whole cloth to suit your ideological needs. In other words you are a liar. You say you bring “balance in the blog.” No, you bring deceit and intellectual dishonesty. Here is some reading material for you that will guide you through the history of the Ukraine conflict and provide you the necessary context. Hopefully the late greats, Justin Raimondo and Robert Parry, will be able to break through your neocon programming.
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/12/01/ukraine-defends-its-sovereignty/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/03/11/what-color-is-ukraines-color-revolution/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/03/16/from-iraq-to-ukraine-a-pattern-of-disaster/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/03/20/ukraines-mysterious-snipers/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/04/24/ukraine-out-of-control/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/05/04/odessa-ukraines-waco/
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/06/05/kiev-escalates-air-strikes-on-ukraines-rebel-cities/
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/04/can-obama-speak-strongly-for-peace-2/
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/10/burning-ukraines-protesters-alive/
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/13/how-reagan-enforced-us-hypocrisy-2/
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-western-media-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/20/the-maidan-massacre-censorship-ukraine/
“You are all in bed with Putin and unbalanced article authors such as Dave DeCamp feed your movement daily so we bring the balance in the blog.”
Who is “we” tequila man?
Yes, everyone should. But everyone isn’t. Especially the US and Israel.
Density.
That’s definitely a factor. Also, targeting apartment blocks for demolition is probably part of the equation as well.
If only they knew. I have at least a dozen friends who bought into Biden’s spiel that there are no Nazi’s in the Kyev government; that it is a representative democracy; and that Zelensky is an honorable man.
As Doug Macgregor has said, “When the truth is ugly, lies are beautiful.”
Was Filiponenko a “high official” of an enemy government who was engaged in the
planning, execution, or command of military operations? Perhaps, but that’s not usually the job of a legislator or a former police chief. If he was not, the assassination was very likely a war crime.
In 1914 the mostly anti-war German Social Democrats were asked to vote for or against funds needed by their Kaiser to wage an allegedly defensive war against France. They voted for. Their action illustrates that voting for funds to wage war is itself an act of war. That is what our Congress has already done numerous time.
No Surprise here. Joey Biden has lost control over the US NEOCONS and state terrorists. The assassination was carried out by Ukraine’s military intelligence, and strong support from the CIA
Ukraine is going to escalate more and more in an attempt to remain relevant,
as the USA loses interest in favor of its problem child in the ME
What are you talking about?
Russia invaded their country with their entire Army to take their land. What the F are they supposed to do?
Throw rocks and use bad words?
And staying relevant in hopes of more aid from the US is something that will get them what? More death and destruction? Maybe they should read the writing on the wall and realize that they were used as fodder from the start and the US’ “investment” to destroy Russia is going to dry up eventually. Zaluzhny told the truth, Ukraine can’t win this war.
Is it not okay for citizens of a region to govern themselves after a new group takes control of your nation via a coup?
Zelinsky ran for office on ending the violence in the Pro Russian regions, the people should be furious he lied, as well as angry that he was so gullable that he actually trusted the US to follow through on an unwinnable war.
I don’t think he’s that dumb, I think he knew he could walk away from the country a rich man, even in the event of a total collapse of govt and miltary annihilation.
Plus, Zelensky found out real early that if he made overtures of peace with Russia, the Banderite Neo-Nazis were going to string him up from a tree in the pubic square.
Russia did not invade Ukraine “with their entire Army.” At most Russia sent in 190,000 soldiers.
Yup. Of course, there are more now. And the terms for a negotiated peace are going to be less attractive to Kiev and Washington than those offered in the spring of 2022.
This week, Zelensky issued another declaration of martial law, which allows him to suspend the Presidential election, and somebody sent a box of live grenades to Commander in Chief Zaluzhny shortly after he implied that Ukraine is losing the war.
These kinds of things remind me of the behavior of the SS in the early days of a certain German dictator’s rise to power in the early 1930’s.
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n Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine” So, in Russia? Why does no one accept the results of the multiple referendums in which Russian-speaking ethnolinguistic Russians who adhere to the Kiev-outlawed Russian Orthodox Church (and in many cases are old enough to have been born in Russian SSR before the border was moved) voted to rejoin Russia..?
Why does no one accept the results of referendums held in occupied territory at the order of and under the supervision of the occupiers? I can’t for the life of me imagine why.
Right. After all, no one accepted the results of the 1946 elections in Japan or the 1949 elections in West Germany. Right?
That’s what the IRA has been saying about northern Ireland for years.
One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “freedom fighter”. Depends whose ox is being gored.