In it summer-fall 2016, living on the outskirts of the Kremlin became a nightmare for Muscovites living in apartments in the center. The gps devices and the browsers they started to go crazy; in some cases, they simply stopped working; in others, the affected person was teleported to Vnukovo airport, about thirty kilometers from the center. The dysfunction also affected all types of mobiles, GPS either GLONASSthe Russian alternative to western browsers.
Taxi drivers complained that the apps worked very poorly when near the red Kremlin walls, as did the browsers of marathon participants, which went silent when they got close to those streets. Some took it as a joke, like Alexander Mamaev, who stated in a tweet that perhaps, in the walled compound from where Vladimir Putin runs the country, it was possible that “a rare species of Pokémons” lived that the president would not want to “deliver”. Others, like Konstantine Konovalovthey limited themselves to expressing their indignation at seeing the aforementioned Muscovite airfield marked in its current location.
Вокруг Кремля второй раз за день не работает gps. Даже с выключенным wifi и сетью перекидывает во Внуково!
как это? pic.twitter.com/QZi9dC7uKp— Constantine (@CKonovalov) July 10, 2016
The answer to such a mess was then given to this newspaper Sergei Osedelkopartner and specialist in security issues in telephones and internet of notamendia, a Russian company in the sector. The interference had “its origin in teams located inside the Kremlin” trying to “fool drones and drones.” The reason for all this: most drones are programmed not to fly in the vicinity of busy airports.
The kremlin fortress It is, without any doubt, one of the safest places in the Russian Federation. And carrying out an attack on the heart of power in Moscow by means of a drone as happened on the night of Wednesday to Thursday are already big words, which is why there is absolute skepticism regarding the authorship of the attack, that Moscow attributed to Ukraine, under the tutelage of the US, both among experts and among western governments.
“It is very theatrical, designed to be photographed,” he assures EL PERIODICO from Washington david satterjournalist and expert on Russia, the first specialist who characterized false flag attacks as the explosions in Moscow and other Russian cities of 1999that boosted popularity of the then prime minister Vladimir Putin and they gave him a justification to launch the second war in Chechnya and therefore, to reach the presidency months later. “The damage has been minimal, everyone (officials) has returned to work normally and Putin is normally not in the Kremlin at that time,” says Satter, author, among other works, ‘The less you know, the better you sleep’an exhaustive investigation into those controversial attacks, which marked the contemporary history of the country.
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All of this pushes one to think american journalist that it is a self inflicted attack “to increase tension in society” and provide the regime with “new excuses or to commit more atrocities in Ukraine, or to increase internal repression, or both at the same time.” And the only alternative option I would contemplate is the possibility that the authorship fell on “a radical group inside Russia that would have carried out sabotage and the deadly attacks against Daria Dugin (the daughter of the ultra thinker Alexander Dugin) or the radical blogger Vladen Tatarsky“.
The same incredulity greeted the news among Western governments. “We have nothing to do with it; peskov lies,” replied the White House spokesman for Homeland Security, John Kirby. The US Secretary of State, anthony blinkenhas stated that “everything that comes from the Kremlin must be taken with extreme caution”, while her French counterpart, Catherine Colonnaconsidered the attack “bizarre” and “rather unintelligible”. Mikhailo Podoliakadviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskydescribed the incident as “montage” while the cherry on top of disbelief was put by the Institute for War Studies (ISW): “it would be a shame for Russia” if its anti-aircraft defense systems had not been able to prevent a drone attack on such an emblematic objective.