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Pooteen has to look smarter than his underlings on TV, so he couldn't afford to tell such a sloppy story and blame Ukraine explicitly.
But as using the getaway to cross the border together (!) wasn't enough to point in the direction of those whom they wanted to pin this on — might be too hard to grasp for the average Russian state-run TV consumer, it was ultimately decided to keep them all alive so they could tell the Ukraine story in person a couple of days later.
@jbenjamint
Too bad Pravyi sektor is no longer in vogue, they could've just found Dmitro Yarosh's vcard on the alleged terrorists and be done with it, but TV audience doesn't have the memory capacity to remember who that is — they had to improvise 🤷
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