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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago

Leukemia is a new one. They don't even bother making up plausible lies. It's all about sending a message.

[-] rentar42@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

Always has been.

The "ham-fisted" assassinations have always been about just the tiniest sliver of deniability while definitely sending the message "we can reach you" and not making a secret about who "we" is.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, unfortunately he tripped while jumping out a window and sadly passed away shortly after due to unrelated heart failure.

[-] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised whatever perverts Putin had conjured up to make him new poisons managed to make one that manifests similar symptoms to leukemia. It's not beyond him to try new ones out on his subjects who have fallen out of favor.

[-] odium@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Polonium 210

[-] DigitalFrank@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, suicide is overused, that trope died with Jeffery Epstein.

[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gennady Lopyrev, 69, had been due for parole but was reportedly diagnosed with leukaemia on August 14 and died two days later.

Polonium-210 poisoning manifests as rapid onset leukemia...what a coincidence!

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 24 points 1 year ago

What kind of secrets do you guys think are in there?

[-] Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

What does a corrupt mob boss with near limitless power over a nation get up to in his leisure time? I would imagine atrocious shit has gone down in that palace.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Secret passage ways and BDSM dungeons, or a full on cloning facility? :P

[-] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

This whole time Putin was actually a bear that drives a little car in his spare time like this.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

They just shave the bear before taking the photos, here's one where they forgot

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[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

You gotta love a headline that presumes to know the motive for a murder

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

When you find a body without a head, you don't spend much time wondering what the cause of death was.

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Motive, not means

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