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Ukraine faked anti-Putin commander’s death to trick Russia into paying bounty, says spy chief

Source: firstpost.com firstpost.com
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In an intelligence coup, Ukraine on Thursday announced it had faked the death of Denis Kapustin, one of the most prominent Russian commanders fighting against President Vladimir Putin in the ongoing war, and tricked Russia into paying a $500,000 bounty for an assassination that never happened. In a video shared on New Year’s Day, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of the military intelligence agency GUR, appeared beside Kapustin and revealed the deception was part of an operation to foil an assassination plot. Budanov said Kapustin’s killing was “ordered by the special services of the aggressor state Russia, which allocated half...
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