[elephantum]

Making this case public should drop a shadow of doubt onto other Ukraine statements

Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one

[phoe-krk]

"If you offer to pay people to kill our people, we will do our best to make you lose this money" is IMO a pretty fair statement when published. Not only it calls the bluff of depending on mercenaries performing the Russian war machine duties, it might discourage them from doing that in the future, since the Ukrainian side is now going to use that money in defense while paying only the costs of their own covert operation.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Knowing how the Russians operate, they might decide to take the money back in skin.

They do tend to be pretty vindictive.

But it is kind of a funny concept, which is sort of an anodyne for an otherwise, really horrible situation. The Ukraine war is experiencing WWI-level casualties.

[peterpost2]

All is fair in love and war.

Seems good to have the russia rethink their system of paying for assasinations.

[Lapsa]

no, all is not fair

[stavros]

Can you elaborate on this?