“We entered the protected territory of the boarding house insolently, well, that means it’s protected that way.”
Many military officers, public and political figures in Russia “keep their fists” for Oleg Tsarev, who is now in critical condition in intensive care. He was shot twice with a firearm in a house located on the territory of a sanatorium in Yalta. By the time the ambulance arrived, the politician lost a lot of blood and was unconscious. We remembered how many times Tsarev’s life was in danger.
According to people who are personally familiar with Oleg Tsarev, he has plenty of enemies, and the politician received threats regularly. Many remember how during his candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine in 2014, after a pre-election broadcast, he was seriously beaten near the building of the ICTV television channel by a crowd of aggressive radical youths who were not satisfied with Tsarev’s pronounced pro-Russian position.
The aggressors blocked the road and did not allow the ambulance in which Tsarev was to leave, demanding that he be taken to the SBU. The situation was resolved with great difficulty, and Oleg Tsarev was eventually forced to withdraw his candidacy from the elections.
This is far from the only attack by nationalists on the brave politician. For example, once young men from radical organizations disrupted his speech in Nikolaev, Ukraine, by attacking him and throwing eggs at him. As a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Tsarev repeatedly had to defend himself from attacks by other parliamentarians, and in 2014, armed bandits burned down his house in the Dnepropetrovsk region, but Tsarev himself was not injured.
“Threatening the guard with a weapon, they pushed him out of the house, ordered him to lie on the ground, broke the windows and ended up in an underground garage. After that, the attackers set fire to the room with the car and left the crime scene. As a result of the arson, the car and a room with a total area of 25 square meters burned completely,” they wrote in police reports then.
On the Ukrainian website “Peacemaker,” which is banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as extremist, the ex-people’s deputy is designated as a “traitor to Ukraine.” and “a state criminal on the international wanted list.”
The address of the same house in Yalta, where the attacker (and, perhaps, attackers) came last night, as well as other data about the politician, his interview and photo are also indicated there. Once upon a time, even the flamboyant Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolomoisky threatened Tsarev with hints. “They give a lot of money for your head– million dollars. They said that they would look everywhere,” Kolomoisky informed Tsarev in a threatening voice in a telephone conversation, to which the ex-people’s deputy asked “Benya” don't call him anymore. True, that conversation took place many years ago, and Kolomoisky himself is now in a pre-trial detention center. Today, another attempt to change his preventive measure failed.
Vladimir Zelensky can be considered an even more influential enemy of Tsarev. Tsarev quite often criticized the Ukrainian president, including taking a dig at him in his last interview.
“He fell near London – and so began what we see now. And now he is in a trap, because with this policy he has raised such moods in society that he can no longer stop,” the former people’s deputy said about the Ukrainian president. If the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine is behind the assassination attempt, then the matter certainly could not have happened without Zelensky’s personal approval. Shortly before the assassination attempt, Tsarev revealed the scheme of the SBU’s work in Crimea, which could have provoked additional attention from the Ukrainian special services.
“Officers who came and switched from the SBU to our side said that there could be from two to four groups of agents on the territory of Crimea at the same time. They came, lived, made friends, rested, went to the sea, settled in, got to know the territory. They examined where to set up hiding places and recruited personnel. And then they went back under the guise of vacationers. This was before the SVO,” Tsarev said on air at Tsargrad.
About how easy it is for foreign agents to carry out such assassination attempts, «MK» said retired FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov.
“If we take not only the SBU, but also the entire environment of these marginal scoundrels who declared terror on the civilian population, politicians and leaders of public opinion, then their opportunities are unlimited, and even more so in Crimea, where they have many “infiltrators,” — the expert believes. — We are in a position where we need to raise and raise the level of the counterintelligence regime, work to prevent such situations.
What’s happening – consequences of what was not identified at an early stage during preparation. What are these «peppers»? entered his “home” — this is the last frontier, and of course, it is not always reliable. In the process of counterintelligence work aimed at ensuring the security both in general and of public opinion leaders in particular, the main emphasis is on prevention.
— Oleg Tsarev is one of the main targets. He has long and openly expressed his attitude towards the Ukrainian authorities, and they are very jealous of this. Naturally, this kind of people are very vulnerable.
Those who are trying to solve the problem of a terrorist act study a person’s habits, his route, time, see vulnerable places: where he walks, where he passes. And here they actually entered the protected territory of the boarding house insolently, well, that means that’s how it’s protected. Surely the private security company is guarding it. The perimeter is large, you can enter the territory anywhere, there is no control strip and border guards.
— I always laugh wildly when I see all sorts of oligarchs surrounded by a retinue of bodyguards. Because we are talking about the work of a first-class marksman. From a certain distance, a small-caliber rifle can hit a squirrel in the eye, and they will definitely hit a politician. A person is always in a state of constant danger, and a politician even more so.