Speculation about false flag operations: Is terror playing into Putin's hands?. Some observers suspect this to be a false flag operation.

Carlo Masala: Putin “im tries to blame the Ukrainians’” Whether the ruler of the Kremlin needs this initiative at the front in the Ukraine war seems questionable, says Masala. The majority of Western observers also share the security expert's opinion that Putin is unlikely to come back to the scene of the crime, he says. The Kremlin ruler wanted to push the “crimes and mass murders that Putin commits every day” into the background in international perception, Masala says.