Peter Todd on Nostr: Ukrainians (most likely) assassinated a Russian Major General at his home near Moscow ...

Ukrainians (most likely) assassinated a Russian Major General at his home near Moscow yesterday, yet another in a long list of assassinations of Russians (e.g. the EW warfare expert, Yevgeny Rytikov, killed with a car bomb earlier this week).





One interesting detail: the assassination seems to have been done with an IED made of grenades planted in car they parked on the street outside his apartment, probably triggered remotely with a webcam. Not all of the grenades exploded at once, which meant that after the first explosion, additional secondaries kept on happening.

Now think about it: suppose the general had only been wounded, not killed. A stream of secondary explosions would discourage anyone from getting close enough to help, maximizing the chances they he does in fact die. Smart.



Russia does follow-up "double-tap" air strikes all the time on Ukrainian civilians to try to kill rescue crews. Using a similar tactic on Russia for assassinations is more than fair.