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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 319 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 211 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually a legit question.

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[–] SymphonicResonance@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work

Must have been Russia. They dislike anything that is anti-corruption.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'd be willing to bet that their anti-corruption police are just as corrupt as their normal police.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to think he was killed for shaking down the normal police for bribes to cover their corruption.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d like to think he was killed for planting the marigolds next to the petunias.

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[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well they are trying to free Ukraine from nazis with nazis,… so it’s kind of their m.o.

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[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing that these corruption police are just for appearances, or to be used to get rid of anything that Putin himself labels as "corruption", since they work for him.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well there's corruption that flows to you, but corruption that doesn't flow to you? You better believe that's a paddlin'.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But since everyone is corrupt in Russia, anti-corruption means you can go after whoever you want to get out of the way.

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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised he didn’t fall out of a window while mowing lawn. It’s anybody’s guess at his time.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago
[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work at his country cottage in Shchetinovka, Russia - just 1,000ft from the Ukraine border.

If he was with the anti-corruption police, it might have been someone in the military (with access to drones) that he was investigating for corruption.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or, and this might be a crazy theory, if he was only 1k feet from the Ukrainian border, maybe, just maybe, Ukraine got him, since he would be a high profile target and Russia is currently at war with Ukraine. He worked for Putin, so despite the "anti-corruption" title, the chances of him actually going after real corruption is slim to none. "Corruption" in this case probably just means "whoever Putin is mad at atm". Even if he was killed by his own team for whatever reason, the one behind it would most likely be Putin himself.

[–] ours@lemmy.film 21 points 1 year ago

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police

Who knows but he probably had many enemies in his own team.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Man it would suck to be in any sort of military or political position there. Never knowing from day to day who you are going to piss off next or what window you are going to get pushed out of.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] cokane_88@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope he had just started mowing, man that would suck to mow for an while then get vaporized.

[–] goforliftoff@lemm.ee 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know, a lawn with just a small portion mowed and the rest standing tall? That shit would haunt me in my own afterlife.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The knife missile could take care of both problems at once.

[–] ShaolinRaiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Brought to you by the fine folks at Raytheon™

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[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Here's how I picture it. Half way through in the middle of the row with a 1 to 2 root crater marking the transition between the neat grass and the unmowed grass

[–] teft@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"phew. Last strip...blyat"

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

finishes mowing

Regular Orc: "Looks great! Just need to finish the edging with the weed-gets vaporized"

Ghost Orc realizing his edging will remain undone for eternity: blyat

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[–] Neon@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Kbin showing a fucking Manga as preview is just hillarious lol

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just to complete story:

  1. He was working at Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption, DCECaC(УБЭПиК) for short. Basically financial police.
  2. He was killed by bomb dropped from drone, not by kamikaze drone. It doesn't look like what Ukrainians would do.
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn’t look like what Ukrainians would do.

I've watched tons of grenade drops from drones on the old site. What about this seems like not something Ukraine would do?

[–] uis@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they drop grenades on their territory and use kamikaze drones on Russia. And again, financial police? They could spend grenade much better.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see the KGB stopped trying to be subtle about it

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it's dangerous to work for Putin

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing Ukraine or Putin doing it to make it look like Ukraine.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

TBH, I thought this was an Onion headline at first.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Site shows a 404 with a large video ad for a money laundering scam?

[–] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Mr_Blott 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you try fixing it to a link that isn't to a tabloid shitrag? 😂

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[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

In soviet Russia drone mows you - down

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meanwhile, in Belarus, Lukashenko is reconsidering his career aspirations. Maybe being Colonel in Polish army would be safer.

Edit: wrong word fixed (bring -> being)

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Not the onion

[–] t_var_s@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Two can play the plausible deniability game.

[–] books@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dudes house was a 1000 feet away from the border?

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