This research was done with the help of Sergej Maier, Markus Frenzel, and Oliver Alexander. Court records referenced here are presented after quoted passages, with links.
This all reads very interestingly, except that the RTL team is so fixated on Russia that they can't seem to see the elephant in the room.
First, we're talking about a country where recently an elderly woman was sentenced to 4 years in prison for liking pro-Russian social media posts.
Second, that Diana from Krech in Crimea has been listed as a "traitor" on Myrotvorets' defacto death list since 2016. The passport with which she allegedly bought the mailbox company "Feeria Lvova" was issued in Kiev in 2019. So far, this passport is considered genuine, so the question arises how Diana B. got it. She will hardly have traveled to Kiev at risk to her life.
Thirdly, despite mountains of money, false documents, alleged contacts, Rustem - unlike the elderly lady who had clicked the fake likes - is still at large. I.e. either he is less guilty than a few social media Likes, or he is protected at the highest level. Second would fit the passport issued in Kiev in 2019.
Fourth, the tips to Dutch military intelligence obviously came from the inner circle of the Ukrainian government. The contact probably goes back to the MH17 investigation. This source apparently knew about a Ukrainian sailboat plot in June and apparently also tipped off Andromeda later.
According to the Pentagon leaks, this source gave Zalushny as the head of the operation.
So we have a Ukrainian source with apparently the best knowledge and trusted by the Dutch military intelligence, a businessman living as a free man in Kiev despite mountains of "evidence", a woman who allegedly has a passport she could only have obtained at the risk of her life, strangely cagey Polish investigators claiming that there were no explosives on the Andromeda nor did anyone on board have military training (despite passports known to be forged).
So who is protecting Rustem, issuing passports to "traitors," and causing Polish authorities to tell a story whose logic defies deciphering? Russians?
This all reads very interestingly, except that the RTL team is so fixated on Russia that they can't seem to see the elephant in the room.
First, we're talking about a country where recently an elderly woman was sentenced to 4 years in prison for liking pro-Russian social media posts.
Second, that Diana from Krech in Crimea has been listed as a "traitor" on Myrotvorets' defacto death list since 2016. The passport with which she allegedly bought the mailbox company "Feeria Lvova" was issued in Kiev in 2019. So far, this passport is considered genuine, so the question arises how Diana B. got it. She will hardly have traveled to Kiev at risk to her life.
Thirdly, despite mountains of money, false documents, alleged contacts, Rustem - unlike the elderly lady who had clicked the fake likes - is still at large. I.e. either he is less guilty than a few social media Likes, or he is protected at the highest level. Second would fit the passport issued in Kiev in 2019.
Fourth, the tips to Dutch military intelligence obviously came from the inner circle of the Ukrainian government. The contact probably goes back to the MH17 investigation. This source apparently knew about a Ukrainian sailboat plot in June and apparently also tipped off Andromeda later.
According to the Pentagon leaks, this source gave Zalushny as the head of the operation.
So we have a Ukrainian source with apparently the best knowledge and trusted by the Dutch military intelligence, a businessman living as a free man in Kiev despite mountains of "evidence", a woman who allegedly has a passport she could only have obtained at the risk of her life, strangely cagey Polish investigators claiming that there were no explosives on the Andromeda nor did anyone on board have military training (despite passports known to be forged).
So who is protecting Rustem, issuing passports to "traitors," and causing Polish authorities to tell a story whose logic defies deciphering? Russians?