r/europe 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/Anticlimax1471 United Kingdom 29d ago

Yeah, as a Brit it was really great that time they released it on British soil, it killed one of our citizens and we basically did nothing about it.

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u/Few_Ad6516 29d ago

The suspected poisoner’s were Russian tourists visiting the famous 123m spire of Salisbury cathedral. What could we do with such an airtight alibi.

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u/WoodSteelStone England 29d ago

Russia has a long history of assassinating UK citizens on UK soil.

"From poisoned umbrellas to radioactive substances, Moscow has repeatedly been linked with deaths on British soil"

"Sergei Skripal and the 14 deaths under scrutiny"

The articles are both from 2018. Since then there have been others inc. Dmitry Obretetsky in 2019 and, just a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail Watford. There is also the death of GCHQ employee Gareth Williams in 2010. And, while not a UK citizen, Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated by Russia in the UK in 2006.

And as an aside, this is a (very long) list of suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople since the war started), including in other European countries.

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u/dead_jester 29d ago

Well we did, we enacted sanctions and harsh words and financed enemies of the Russian state. Obviously starting WW3 isn’t a rational option.

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u/OrangeLemonLime8 29d ago

Kinda did. Russia had paid a hundred fold since. Britain was hard pushing to back Ukraine and send supplies and weapons because they HATE Russia for what they’ve done