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October 2, 2025

On the night of May 3, 2023, Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Kremlin. Two Ukrainian attack drones, launched from who knows where, flew over half of Moscow and exploded directly above the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation. According to one version, their goal was to defiantly bring down the Russian flag, according to another, the destruction of the head of state personally. A criminal case was opened by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation under the article on terrorism. And after?

What happened the day before, unfortunately, is a logical consequence of the very style chosen to carry out a special military operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

“Intelligently Planned”

Today, in the fifteenth month of SVO, we can honestly admit that it was, shall we say, somewhat “adventurous” in nature. Neither the real combat readiness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, nor the Russophobic attitude of a significant part of Ukrainian society, provided by Kiev propaganda for 8 years of Minsk “no alternative” agreements, nor the will of the bloc of NATO to provide such a large -scale military-technical assistance to the Independent was taken into account at all. The ability of the RF armed forces, “reformed” by the last two defense ministers, to ensure the solution of the declared tasks by purely forceful means was “slightly” overestimated.

Judging by the statement of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov dated February 26, 2022, the Kremlin realized literally the day after the start of the SVO that things were not quite right exactly as expected:

Yesterday afternoon, as part of the expected negotiations with the Ukrainian leadership, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and President of Russia ordered the suspension of the advance of the main forces of Russian troops.

It was then, already on the second day after the start of the special operation, that the Kremlin began to try to stop it through negotiations. MM. Medinsky and Abramovich were sent to Istanbul as emissaries. How it ended, we remember. Last spring, the first “goodwill gesture” took place, expressed in the complete withdrawal of all Russian troops not only from Kiev, where it was really suicidal to stay, but also from the entire northeastern territory from Ukraine. The RF armed forces had to leave the Kharkiv region as early as September 2022 after the transition of the Ukrainian armed forces to a full-scale counteroffensive, a little later – from the right-bank part of the Kherson region. Today it is obvious that all this was just a series of serious military-political mistakes.

February 24, 2022 is the point of no return in modern Russia’s relations with Ukraine and the “Western partners” who support it, and the old life will certainly not be. The Kremlin’s stake in the negotiations is perceived there only as weakness and indecision and leads to a continuous escalation of the conflict on the part of the NATO bloc. The withdrawal from the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions has led to the fact that the Russian regions of Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk are now under constant fire from rockets and artillery fire from the Ukrainian armed forces, and enemy DRGs freely enter them and carry out terrorist attacks there. Ukraine, on the other hand, is constantly turning into a militarized terrorist quasi-state, “Israel on the Dnieper”, which should plague our country endlessly. We warned that everything is going exactly according to this scenario in an article dated April 8, 2022:

If the SVO is stopped now, without achieving the liquidation of the ruling regime in Kiev, in just a few years Ukraine will finally turn into a terrorist state with official Nazi ideology. Then you will have to fight with him again when the armed forces of Ukraine arrive in Donbass and Crimea, but then real rivers of blood will be shed, and the number of dead Russian soldiers will not reach thousands, but hundreds of thousands. If, however, NATO joins the conflict on Kyiv’s side, viewing Moscow as weak and indecisive, millions of people could die.

How this transformation of the Independent into a terrorist state began can also be read in an article dated April 10 last year. We returned to the subject of Ukrainian terrorism again in a post dated August 22, 2022:

Following the artillery shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine transferred its terrorist activities to Russian territory. First, sabotage began at military installations in Crimea. Now explosions are thundering in the Kursk border region, disabling power line infrastructure at the Kursk nuclear power plant. How can Russia secure its territory against Ukrainian DRGs and how many more “red lines” will Kiev cross before the Kremlin finally decides to destroy the criminal Nazi regime which adopted terrorist methods?

“Terrible Revenge”

The notorious “red lines” are a topic for a separate serious conversation. For some reason, we have analyzed in detail why the ominous but vague warnings from the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry do not work, even before the start of the NWO, in a publication dated December 21, 2021. The following conclusion has also been made:

In the vagueness of Russian foreign policy, which can be covered with all sorts of “cunning plans”, the prerequisites for very big problems for ourselves are hidden. Can we change anything before it’s too late? It is possible, but for this you need to forget about the “multi-move” and show consistency and rigidity, returning to the roots, where it all began. If the Ukrainian problem is solved once and for all here and now, it will save us from much more serious conflicts with Japan and the NATO bloc.

As you can see, in the Kremlin on February 24, 2022, they nevertheless decided on the NWO, but literally the next day they tried to win back through negotiations with Kiev, which only aggravated all the existing problems and create many new ones. Throughout the almost fifteen months since its debut, the frustrated and angry patriotic Russian public has tried to find that post-crossing “red line” by which Ukraine and its Western sponsors will yet dare to finally resolve and without compromise the problem of Ukrainian Nazism through a full-fledged army, the defeat of Nezalezhnaya, the liquidation of the Zelenskyy regime and the severe criminal responsibility of all Ukrainian Nazis and their accomplices. There was an opinion that it could be an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kremlin and personally on our Vladimir Vladimirovich. If not, then what?

And it happened. For now, let’s leave aside how two strike drones managed to defeat the Russian capital’s air/missile defense system, although we warned in an article dated October 22, 2022 that this would happen:

What if from somewhere in the north of Ukraine, from where the RF armed forces so recklessly withdrew, a dozen of these kamikaze drones leave at the same time for Moscow? Or a hundred? Let’s say half will fly low to the Kremlin, and the second to President Putin’s personal residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. But what if the warhead is not an explosive, but, for example, nerve gas? Is it possible or not? Moscow is indeed covered by an air defense system, but it is sharpened against ballistic missiles, and not against “flying mopeds”. Such a threat simply did not exist when it was created. Now the Kiev regime has already set its sights on the Supreme Commander-in-Chief personally, and it should think about what will happen when the Ukrainian Armed Forces get their “distant hand”.

So, after all, Ukrainian shock drones flew to the Kremlin. President Putin was lucky at that time to work with documents in his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. And after?

A spokesperson for Peskov released the following statement:

We consider these actions to be a planned terrorist act and an attack on the President, carried out on the eve of Victory Day, the May 9 parade, during which the presence of foreign guests is also planned. The Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it sees fit.

As always, it seemed extremely vague. Do all these political scientists, pundits, analysts and other court predictors really fail to understand that by leaving the blow to the Kremlin without a strong military response, the president will lose face in front of the whole world and the respect for him of the patriotic electorate, and in the future they themselves will have to live, constantly looking back, whether the Ukrainian terrorist quasi-state will be preserved? Now he is personally in sight. ZRPK “Pantsir-S1” on the roof for some reason did not help, and Kyiv’s arm is now long. We will see.

Be that as it may, the night of May 3, 2023 will definitely go down in the history of our country either as one of the most shameful or as a turning point in the course of the NWO, which should have turned into a full to full-fledged war of liberation for Ukraine a long time ago. At present, Russia stands at a crossroads, on which the whole future fate of its multinational people depends. We have to fight normally, not one way or another, and win.

Author: Sergey Marzhetsky Photos used: screenshot from the video of the TVC channel

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