Russians accused of manufacturing attacks inside Russia
- Ukrainian intel says it intercepted a call between a Russian soldier and his wife.
- In the call, the man can be heard telling his wife that Russian forces blew up Klimovo in Russia.
- Town authorities initially placed the blame on Ukraine, a claim that Kyiv has denied.
Ukrainian intelligence officials claim to have intercepted a call in which a Russian soldier says Vladimir Putin's troops are shooting their own people in Moscow.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an audio clip of the call on Friday, in which a man's voice can be heard saying Putin's forces have been opening fire on a Russian town. The man, a soldier located in Ukraine's Donetsk region, was speaking to his wife on the phone, who's back home in Russia.
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The soldier said Russian forces bombed Klimovo, a Russian city straddling the border between Russia and Ukraine. Klimovo authorities, meanwhile, blamed Ukrainian soldiers for shelling the city, an accusation Kyiv has vehemently denied. The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine characterized the blame as "an attempt to ignite anti-Ukraine hysteria in Russia," according to Radio Free Europe, a US-funded media company.
The Russian soldier compared the shelling to the series of bombings in Russian apartments in 1999.
"The same crap was in the Chechen war," he told his wife. "Apartments were blown up in Moscow, like ... they were terrorists."
He said it was orchestrated and carried out by officers with Russia's Federal Security Service, which has frequently been accused of torture.
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Putin has been accused of staging the attacks on Moscow to justify the Chechen war. It would not surprise me if he did it again.
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