A picture is circulating that allegedly shows a Telegram post of Igor #Girkin’s wife Miroslava Reginskaya is despair after he was “found hanged in prison cell”.
But no such message can be found on her channel, she’s instead doing some usual panegyrics and photos.
Regardless of how much he deserves it for all his crimes in #Chechnya and #Ukraine, it seems unconfirmed and dubious.
Girkin's supporters came to the building of the Moscow City Court and pounced on the authorities with accusations. They say that "taking real patriots out of the way" is the act of cowards. #AureFreePress#Ukraine️ #Russia#Putin#Girkin
Russian nationalist Igor #Girkin (#Strelkov) sentenced to 4 years in prison for extremism.
A former officer of #Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB) and an ex-military commander, Girkin played a crucial role in Russia’s annexation of #Crimea and the early stages of invading #Donbas, before becoming a prominent Russian military blogger with over half a million followers on Telegram.
Igor #Girkin - a #Russian nationalist awaiting trial for inciting extremism - says he intends to challenge President #Putin in next yr's elex. Girkin, a former intel officer, was actively involved in the 2014 occupation of #Crimea. He's also been convicted of murder in the Netherlands for shooting down a Malaysian airliner #MH17 over #Ukraine. A few months ago he fell foul of a #Kremlin crackdown on nationalist critics.
Western media, STOP CALLING IGOR GIRKIN A MILITARY BLOGGER!
You would not call Hannibal Lecter "a CIA adviser". You would not call Charles Manson a "prog rock musician".
You would not call Sauron "a Hobbit observer".
Stop doing that, he's a mercenary and a wanted war criminal.
🇷🇺 Several pro-war #Russian military bloggers have publicly questioned the decision to arrest Igor #Girkin, a war criminal and a former official in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic who had also covered the war online.
Prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who had publicly accused President Vladimir Putin and the army top brass of not pursuing the war in Ukraine harshly or effectively enough, was remanded in custody on Friday on charges of inciting extremism.
Igor Girkin in court asked for a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest. He said he suffers from angina pectoris (chest pain or discomfort due to coronary heart disease) but hasn't received a certificate yet.
“The investigator’s statement that I can hide abroad is frankly ridiculous, I am wanted by Interpol in most countries of the world, I have been sentenced by the Hague Tribunal to life imprisonment for a crime that I did not commit,” he said.
@noelreports#Girkin’s friend and ally, Pavel #Gubarev from #Donetsk, who demanded the release of Igor Girkin, has also been arrested. When he got arrested, the crowd was shouting “pozor”, shame.
Wow, this is big: Igor #Strelkov / #Girkin detained and charged with extremism in Russia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66265892
He has a lot to answer for in how the #Ukraine war started in 2014 - a former officer (likely of #GRU background) occupied #Sloviansk in the #Donbas with a couple of dozen men and started the armed conflict, with #Russia 's covert then overt support
And mainly he was behind the shooting down of #MH17 - convicted by a Durch court
Ultranationalist und Kriegsbefürworter Girkin in Moskau festgenommen
Der Kriegsbefürworter und Ultranationalist Girkin forderte ein härteres Vorgehen in der Ukraine, zuletzt kritisierte er immer schärfer auch Kremlchef Putin. Nun wurde er laut seiner Ehefrau festgenommen.
Igor "Strelkov" Girkin, a Russian war criminal and a former commander of Russian proxy forces in occupied Donetsk Oblast, has been arrested, as reported on July 21 by his Telegram channel and Russian media.
On this day, 17 July 2014, #Russian forces used a Buk missile to shoot down ✈️ #MalaysiaAirlines#MH17 over #Ukraine with 283 passengers (80 children) +15 crew members.
Note:
The commanders who are responsible/convicted for this crime are still free and under the protection of #Russia.
🏛️ The District #Court of The #Hague sentenced #Kharchenko, #Dubinskiy and #Girkin to life imprisonment for causing Flight MH17 to crash and for the murder of the 298 persons.
War criminal Igor #Girkin is again very pessimistic. Yesterday he suggested that the possible breakup through the front lines by the Ukrainian army could cause a collapse in the whole Russian Federation due to contradictions in the army and Putin's inability to make decisions.
Oh, 🌶 out “favorite” all time terrorist is correct though #girkin#Ukraine
❗️The next rebellion is not far off. It remains only to wait for a major defeat at the front. And, yes, - no matter who starts it - now no one will resist the rebels. Nobody at all. Because it makes no sense to risk your life defending such a miserable and miserable government. - Strelkov (Girkin)
I think that both Kremlin and ruzzian society during this invasion are going through five stages of grief - anger, denial, depression.
Anger phase started after their retreat from Kyiv. In this stage they leveled to the ground #Donbas (Mariupol, Popasna, Sievierodonetsk, Volnovakha and many others cities in region are in ruins), blew up #NordStream and started mobilization.
After failure, both military and diplomatic, russians moved to denial stage. In which they tried to destroy energy infrastructure of Ukraine with missiles and Iranian drones, and to capture #Bakhmut in meat attacks.
As for now, if consider #Girkin and #Prigozhin statements, and the behavior of the ruzzian horde in general, they moved into defense/depression stage. It looks like they gonna be depressed until West supplies Ukraine with fighter jets, or until russia runs out of money (which could happen faster if Western oil companies stops maintaining russian colonial oilfeilds)
After the final collapse of russian colonial expedition, the bargaining stage will start. There will be no acceptance stage (like never ever), russians will forget this invasion as they forgot unlucky (for them) WW1 or their failed colonial expedition to Afghanistan. But they will continue to celebrate their Victory over Germans, as they did yesterday 🙂 Still, acceptance stage is possible as a result of #decolonization of russian empire
I was watching #Girkin (guy who shot down the Boeing and russian imperial hero) since the start of the invasion, he is canonical psychopath and watching him is like watching Hollywood thriller, but in reality. He is a full-time supporter of russian imperial expansion, but in same time he was criticizing Putin for not being effective in doing this all the way.
Starting from full-scale invasion, he was complaining that Kremlin colonial expedition is too small to genocide the whole #Ukraine, and was demanding from Putin that he should mobilize the whole russian empire into war. After Putin performed partial mobilization, and it appeared that imperial military industry is not able to supply even partially mobilized horde, Girkin turned into anti-corruption activist. So now he is demanding from #Putin to prosecute his oligarch friends, who ruined soviet legacy and made russia technologically depended from West.
Which reminded me of another notorious russian Nazi, #Navalny, who started his political carrier by inciting genocide on Sakartvelo people, and in the end was imprisoned for his demands to prosecute Putin's oligarch friends 🙂 This looks like a pattern. In the empire governed by the cult of violence and death, the main blocker for psychopath dreams to come true is a corrupt government
Pro-war nationalist Putin critic Girkin charged with inciting extremism (www.reuters.com)
Prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who had publicly accused President Vladimir Putin and the army top brass of not pursuing the war in Ukraine harshly or effectively enough, was remanded in custody on Friday on charges of inciting extremism.
Court arrests Russian FSB officer who launched war in Donbas in 2014 (kyivindependent.com)
A Moscow court on July 21 sanctioned the arrest of Igor Girkin, a Russian war criminal and a former commander of Russian proxy forces in Ukraine.
Russian sources: Igor Girkin arrested (kyivindependent.com)
Igor "Strelkov" Girkin, a Russian war criminal and a former commander of Russian proxy forces in occupied Donetsk Oblast, has been arrested, as reported on July 21 by his Telegram channel and Russian media.