by Ekaterina Bilnova at Sputnik Internation
It is no coincidence that the Ukrainian terror shelling of Sevastopol came the same day as a series of shootings in Dagestan — with NATO agents likely behind both, CIA veteran Larry Johnson told Sputnik.
A former CIA officer sees the hand of Western intelligence services behind a string of atrocities against Russian civilians.
On June 23, unknown gunmen opened fire at two churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in Russia’s Dagestan Republic.
The seemingly-coordinated attacks claimed the lives of 20 people, including 15 policemen, civilians and an Orthodox priest. In the course of a counter-terror operation six assailants were liquidated.
❗️ The death toll from the terrorist attacks in Russia’s Dagestan has risen to 20, the head of the region’s Health Ministry said https://t.co/gAXcfUPmhw
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 24, 2024
The Dagestan terror attacks coincided with the Ukrainian military strike by US-made cluster ATACMS missiles on Sevastopol, earlier in the day, which killed four and injured 153 civilians.
“The likelihood that there was a CIA and/or MI6 involvement is very high,” Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik.
“I don’t think it’s just a coincidence that you had the attack in Sevastopol coincide with this series of attacks in Dagestan,” he said. “At a minimum, it would have been a CIA incitement. But you can’t rule out that there was actual contact training.”…