Drone incident: Kasparov does not believe in Russian staging
The Russian government critic and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov (60) does not believe that the drone incident on the Kremlin premises in Moscow was a Russian staging. “I doubt the popular version that it was a KGB provocation. I have no problem imagining the KGB creating fake events to arouse popular anger, but that’s the wrong goal,” he said in an interview with the German Press Agency in Gmund am Tegernsee.
The KGB was the Soviet secret service, from which today’s domestic secret service FSB and the foreign service SWR emerged. Although he only has the information he gets from the media and could be wrong, he believes that the incident at the Russian center of power is more like a “message from Ukraine: watch out, we can reach you”. Russia had said that two drones that were flying towards the Kremlin compound had crashed on Wednesday night. Moscow accuses Kiev of an attempted attack on Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and threatens countermeasures.
Kasparov, who was awarded the “Freedom Prize of the Media” at the Ludwig-Erhard summit in Tegernsee on Thursday, sees “dramatic consequences” for Russia if the war in Ukraine ends and Putin is defeated. “We know from Russian history that while a war is being fought successfully, people can take the consequences and accept sacrifices,” said the 60-year-old. “But the loss of a war always led to revolts and revolutions.”