Ukrainian spies fake commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500,000 bounty

As far as the Russians were concerned, they had got their man.

Denis Kapustin, one of the most prominent anti-Putin Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine, was reported dead on Dec 27, assassinated by a drone on the southern front.

He had long been hunted by Moscow and the price on his head reflected this: Russian intelligence services had offered $500,000 (£370,000) to anyone who killed him.

Russia paid this out after news broke of the successful hit this week. But what Vladimir Putin’s intelligence services did not know was that they had handed the money directly to Ukraine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukrainian-spies-fake-commander-death-193809717.html

Pooty is about as smart as Trumpy