The social media channel of Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade celebrated the shooting of former US President Donald Trump Saturday, according to a Sputnik contributor, appearing to jokingly take credit for the assassination attempt.
Security analyst Mark Sleboda made the revelation on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Monday.
“As soon as [the shooting] happened, the first thing that popped into my mind was, hmm, Mirotvorets,” said host Garland Nixon, referring to the Ukrainian government-connected website that appears to endorse the killing of those it deems enemies of Ukraine. “Was it crazy for me to think that it could have been Ukraine immediately without any information to suspect that Ukraine could have been behind it?”
“It's not crazy because actually the Kiev regime's official social media channel of the 79th [Air Assault] Brigade, they celebrated it,” said Sleboda. “They thought it was their own [intelligence].”
A post on the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade’s Telegram channel appeared to satirically take credit for the assassination attempt, comparing it to the killing of Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin’s daughter Darya Dugina and the bombing of Russia’s Crimean Bridge.
A post on the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade joked about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Saturday, satirically suggesting Ukrainian intelligence was behind the incident.
© Photo / Screenshot of a Telegram post
“[The Ukrainian intelligence service] has made great progress in operations,” the post read in Ukrainian. “We should have looked for a better shooter. But this is not the end yet!”
Another post included an image of the dead would-be assassin, mocking him as an “incel.”
“I'm pretty sure that it wasn't [Ukrainian intelligence,” Sleboda added. “But they said our intelligence, our SBU is great. They celebrated it. I guess they were unhappy, of course, that it didn’t [succeed]. But that goes, I think, to the nature of the regime in Kiev that the West is supporting and its most ideological militants and supporters.”
“They would have been quite happy to see Donald Trump assassinated,” the international relations expert concluded.
Sleboda also commented on the recent developments in the Western-backed Ukraine proxy war as Russia continues to gradually grind down Kiev’s forces.
“The neocon plan to fight their proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian seems to be nearing its goal as military age men drown as they flee certain death on the front lines,” said host Garland Nixon, referring to reports of Ukrainian draft-age men dying while trying to escape to Romania.
“Previous articles in the Western media have also noticed that during the winter, Ukrainian men are dying of exposure in the mountains, trying to escape across the mountains,” Sleboda noted. “Ukraine has been a one big prison for its own male citizens since Russia's intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict began in 2022. While initially millions of Ukrainian men escaped as soon as the borders with the EU were opened, once the conscription began very quickly those borders were sealed shut.”
“People are still actively trying to escape,” he added. “So there are multiple ways that Ukrainian men are dying trying to flee the regime that the West is supporting in their country, sending them to fight and die for the West’s proxy war on Russia. They don't want to do it. They don't want to fight and die for this regime.”
“And increasingly, European politicians are talking about how do they make Ukrainian men who are refugees in Europe go back and fight and die for them in Ukraine? They're continually talking about how to do this as the Kiev regime is running out of those Ukrainians to conscript.”
Nixon noted the antipathy towards the Zelensky regime of the more than half of Ukraine’s former citizens who supported the ousted Viktor Yanukovych government, which was overthrown in a Western-supported coup in 2014. Ukraine has moved to outlaw the Russian Orthodox Church, Eastern Ukrainian political parties and media outlets, and even the speaking of the Russian language in public since the US-backed putsch.