While Russia’s Vladimir Putin has spent much of this week promising “victory” in his war, details have leaked of a secret funeral for one of his top military officials believed to have been killed just steps from the Kremlin.
Alexander Chayko, the newly appointed commander of Russia’s Aerospace Forces, was widely reported to be the target of Saturday’s deadly bombing at the Balzi Rossi restaurant in Moscow, where five people were killed and more than a dozen wounded.
The Kremlin has stayed silent on the attack, perhaps in light of the humiliating implications of it: Putin had personally ordered heightened security for Chayko just weeks earlier, and yet that did nothing to stop the colonel general’s 55th birthday party, held in the center of the Russian capital, from being blown up.
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