A mysterious channel on Telegram is behind the news of the assassination attempt on Putin

Today, Wednesday, Western media reports published news that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been subjected to an assassination attempt, based on a story reported by a mysterious channel on Telegram called “General SVR”, while the Kremlin has not issued a comment on the matter so far.

While the newspaper “New Zealand Herald” suggests that the “General SVR” channel is run by a former lieutenant general in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service under the pseudonym Viktor Mikhailovich, other reports indicate that the director of the channel is a lawyer from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv called Viktor Yermolayev, but the latter had previously He denied any connection with the channel, according to the Russian English-language news website “Meduza”.

The introduction of the “General SVR” channel on YouTube shows that those responsible for it are retired and active members of the intelligence services of many countries, and that they are people who directly participated in or supervised secret operations and had access to reliable information about the events.

On the other hand, the news verification team in the American magazine “Newsweek” reported that “General SVR” did not provide any evidence to support this claim.

It is noteworthy that this channel has been linked to many rumors targeting the Russian president directly, for example, it claimed months ago that Putin had cancer and that he suffers from serious medical problems. She also claimed that Putin was torn between using nuclear weapons and admitting defeat in Ukraine.

The Irish newspaper “The Irish Sun” and the British “Daily Star” had reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been subjected to an assassination attempt, based on a novel published by the “General SVR” channel.

According to this account, the Russian President’s limousine was attacked with grenades from the left front wheel of the car, followed by the eruption of “thick smoke”.

And she added that Putin was secured and did not suffer any damage, noting that reports indicated that some of his bodyguards had disappeared amid allegations that confidential information about the Russian president’s movements had been hacked, while the Kremlin has not commented on these reports so far.