A Ukrainian military unit celebrated the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, hinting at their involvement in a satirical manner. This reaction adds a provocative twist to the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia. The post even joked about Ukrainian intelligence’s progress, drawing a dark parallel to previous attacks on Russian targets. This surprising celebration highlights the extreme sentiments within the conflict and raises questions about the motives behind such actions.

Donald Trump, a former US president who has opposed Western support for Kiev’s proxy war against Russia, was the target of an attempted assassination reports Sputnik.

According to a Sputnik contributor, the 79th Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine’s social media channel appeared to mockingly claim credit for the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump on Saturday after he was shot.

The disclosure was made by security analyst Mark Sleboda on Monday’s episode of Sputnik’s The Critical Hour.

Host Garland Nixon remarked, “As soon as [the shooting] happened, the first thing that popped into my mind was, hmm, Mirotvorets,” alluding to the website linked to the Ukrainian government that seems to support the execution of anyone it considers to be enemies of Ukraine. “Was it crazy for me to think that it could have been Ukraine immediately without any information to suspect that Ukraine could have been behind it?”

“It’s not crazy because actually the Kiev regime’s official social media channel of the 79th [Air Assault] Brigade, they celebrated it,” said Sleboda. “They thought it was their own [intelligence].”

A statement on the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade seemed to mockingly claim credit for the attempted murder, drawing comparisons to the murder of Russian scholar Aleksandr Dugin’s daughter Darya Dugina and the bombing of Russia’s Crimean Bridge.

The message said in Ukrainian, “[The Ukrainian intelligence service] has made great progress in operations.” “We should have looked for a better shooter. But this is not the end yet!”

An image of the deceased would-be assassin was posted in another post, making fun of him as a “incel.”

“I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t [Ukrainian intelligence,” Sleboda added. “But they said our intelligence, our SBU is great. They celebrated it. I guess they were unhappy, of course, that it didn’t [succeed]. But that goes, I think, to the nature of the regime in Kiev that the West is supporting and its most ideological militants and supporters.”

“They would have been quite happy to see Donald Trump assassinated,” the international relations expert concluded.

Sleboda also addressed the latest developments in the proxy conflict between Ukraine and the West, as Russia is steadily weakening Kiev’s armed forces.

Host Garland Nixon referred to news of Ukrainian draft-age males dying while attempting to flee to Romania, saying, “The neocon plan to fight their proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian seems to be nearing its goal as military-age men drown as they flee certain death on the front lines.”

“Previous articles in the Western media have also noticed that during the winter, Ukrainian men are dying of exposure in the mountains, trying to escape across the mountains,” Sleboda noted. “Ukraine has been a one big prison for its own male citizens since Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict began in 2022. While initially millions of Ukrainian men escaped as soon as the borders with the EU were opened, once the conscription began very quickly those borders were sealed shut.”

“People are still actively trying to escape,” he added. “So there are multiple ways that Ukrainian men are dying trying to flee the regime that the West is supporting in their country, sending them to fight and die for the West’s proxy war on Russia. They don’t want to do it. They don’t want to fight and die for this regime.”

“And increasingly, European politicians are talking about how do they make Ukrainian men who are refugees in Europe go back and fight and die for them in Ukraine? They’re continually talking about how to do this as the Kiev regime is running out of those Ukrainians to conscript.”

Nixon observed that over half of the former Ukrainian citizens who backed the Viktor Yanukovych government, which was toppled in a coup backed by the West in 2014, harbored animosity towards the Zelensky rule. Since the US-backed putsch, Ukraine has taken steps to criminalize the Russian Orthodox Church, Eastern Ukrainian political parties, media outlets, and even the use of the Russian language in public.

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