The fact is the thing seemed well planned and the perps could fire a gun, but everything else about this looked distinctly amateur: most especially the use of traceable phones and car for the getaway.
They looked like poor hicks from nowhere hired for a hit and following someone else's plan.
Why you think the FSB gets a believability pass is beyond me btw...No countries Security Services tell the truth unless it suits their geopolitical agenda.
Say they had solid intelligence evidence that lead straight to Budanov and had decided to take him out. Why would they go public and blame Ukraine at this moment when doing so would make him go to ground?
Or alternatively consider that there might be useful leverage to be used against one country or another through concealing whatever they have found from the public?
As you doubtless know the British Security Service sold the public a pup over the Scripal incident. Six years later we still don't know what really went down that day. It's a fact that the FSB sure as hell know a damn sight more about that incident than we do...but they've still not told us either: funny that.
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